Electrical cable connector
AssigneeIntermatic Incorporated
InventorJohn A. Czerlanis
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Abstract
A connector assembly for effecting electrical circuit connection between insulated wires without removing the insulation therefrom including two identical insulated unitary housing members capable of being coaxially interfitted to define a central passage chamber for a dual conductor cable; each housing member carrying a plate terminal formed with an elongated central opening receptive of a single wire conductor and having a sharp prong protruding from one side thereof for penetrating the insulation of the cable and contacting one wire conductor thereof when the housing members are interfitted; each of the plate terminals operating to penetrate the insulation of an associated single wire conductor to establish circuit connection therewith.
Claims8
A connector assembly for electrically connecting insulated dual conductor cables of various outside dimensions with two insulated single electrical conductors, comprising:
- two identical unitary, generally elongated dielectric housing members, each comprising a cube-like base having a pair of laterally spaced co-planar arms extending at right angles from one side thereof;
- said base having an internal chamber extending inwardly of said one side at a level parallel to said arms,
- an electrically conductive terminal member having a planar body formed with a sharp prong projecting outwardly of one side thereof and an elongated slot opening inwardly of one end thereof;
- said base having means for slidably receiving said terminal member so that said prong thereof extends outwardly of said one side parallel to said arms and chamber;
- said housing members being coaxially interfitted in assembly, with said arms of one housing member insertable into said chamber of the other housing member and vice versa, whereby to provide a central opening between said members for the introduction and passage of insulated dual conductor cable;
- the assembled connector lying transverse to the longitudinal axis of said cable whereby movement of said interfitted housing members toward one another causes each of the prongs carried thereby to laterally penetrate the cable's insulation and contact an individual conductor therewithin.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.