Connecting element for a contact line, contact line, and method for producing a contact line

Abstract

A contact line, a connecting element for connecting two busbars of the contact line, and a method for connecting the two busbars. The connecting element can be produced easily and inexpensively and can be easily assembled in situ and allows a quick and simple connection of conductor strands of a contact line. The connecting element has a main part with connecting depressions on at least one longitudinal face of the main part for crimping to at least one lateral wall of the busbars; a contact line has such a connecting element; and a method includes the following steps: plugging the connecting element into respective elongated cavities of the two busbars; aligning pressing bars of a crimping tool relative to corresponding connecting depressions of the connecting element; and inserting lateral walls of the busbars into the connecting depressions and plastically deforming the walls using the pressing bars.

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