Distributor housing for communication cables
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsWolfgang Giebel, Hans Laar, Josef Schramm
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Abstract
A distributor housing for communication cables in which the connecting unit for the individual wires is permanently integrated into a base component of the housing and the individual wires are first introduced into a positioning means in the contacting process. To form the connection, the pivotable top component of the housing, which has projection aligned with the various contact elements, is pivoted to a closed position to press the individual wires into their contact element.
Claims20
In a distributor housing for communication cables with contact elements for incoming and outgoing conductors of the cables, said housing having an area in which the connections are effected being divided in a longitudinal direction into a top and bottom component to allow accessibility when forming contacts between the conductors and the contact elements of a connecting unit which is integrated in a base component of the housing, the improvements comprising contacting elements being arranged in the top component of the distributor housing and being positioned in accordance with the contact elements which are arranged in the base component so that closing the housing causes an automatic forming of a contact between a conductor and its contact element;
- and the top component having a plurality of recesses aligned with the contact elements, said recesses receiving protective caps so that simultaneously with the forming of the contact between a wire and a contact element, a protective cap encloses the contact with the closing of the top component onto the bottom component.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.