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US 4,846,721 AGranted
Telecommunications terminal block
AssigneeRaychem Corporation
InventorsErwin Debruycker, Thomas Hunter, Jim Pinyan, Emanuele Scalco
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Abstract
A telecommunications terminal block has binding posts and caps that are a screw-fit thereon. The binding posts lie in apertures that contain a sealing material. Drop-wires are connected to the posts by inserting them through further apertures that communicate with those in which the posts lie, and tightening down the caps onto them. Displaced sealing material is received into a third aperture.
Claims17
A terminal block by means of which a conductor of a multi-core cable can be connected to a drop-wire, which comprises a housing having a connection means having:
- (a) a first aperture capable of receiving a sealing material;
- (b) a binding post within the first aperture, and to which a conductor of the cable can be electrically connected;
- (c) a second aperture that communicates with the first aperture and which is capable of receiving the drop-wire such that the drop-wire extends into the first aperture;
- (d) a cap that can be received on the binding post such that a part of the cap is received in the first aperture and can make electrical contact between the binding post and the drop-wire extending into the first aperture;
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- (e) a third aperture in communication with the first aperture and capable of receiving sealing material displaced from the first aperture by receipt of the cap on the binding post.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.