Multiple-conductor electrical connector and stamped and formed contacts for use therewith

For use in an electrical connector for mounting on a printed circuit board which includes two rows of staggered insertion holes, the connector including an insulating housing having elongate cavity means:

• a contact strip having a continuous carrier with laterally extending stamped and formed contacts gang-mountable in the elongate cavity means of the housing, each contact including conductor receptacle means positionable in the cavity means and a pair of laterally spaced terminal tails projecting through the housing from the cavity, and the terminal tails being independently severable whereby a terminal tail of any contact can be inserted into a hole in either row of staggered insertion holes in the printed circuit board.

A stamped and formed contact for use in an electrical connector for mounting on a printed circuit board which includes irregularly spaced insertion holes, comprising:

• receptacle means for receiving a conductor, the receptacle means including an anvil portion and a spring finger portion, a pair of spaced terminal tails independently severable for selective insertion into a selected hole in the printed circuit board, one of the terminal tails being stamped and formed out of the anvil portion of the contact, and the other of the terminal tails being stamped and formed out of the spring finger portion of the contact.