Electricity: conductors and insulators – Conduits – cables or conductors – Combined
Patent
1991-09-04
1992-09-29
Nimmo, Morris H.
Electricity: conductors and insulators
Conduits, cables or conductors
Combined
174 78, 174 84C, 439879, H01R 1100
Patent
active
051515601
ABSTRACT:
A grounding connector for interconnecting a pair of uninsulated conductors such as wires includes an outer body member having diverging tabs extending from upper extents of vertical walls of a U-shaped channel, the tabs being crimpable toward each other when applied to the wires. An inner body member includes a base section crossing the top of the U-shaped channel and diverging inner tabs extending along the inside surfaces of the outer body member to assured stops at the ends of the outer tabs. When the outer tabs are crimped to a vertical orientation, the inner tabs are also crimped to a vertical orientation and urge the base section against the wires in the U-shaped channel. The inner body member presses the wires against upper and lower surfaces of a conductive insert so that arrays of penetrating spikes along the insert surfaces break through corrosion of the wires and assuredly electrically interconnect the wires. The insert is shaped to accommodate interconnecting a pair of flat wires, a pair of round wires, or one of each, or a wire and a rod or pipe.
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Adcock Marty E.
Kreinberg Earl R.
AMP Incorporated
Ness Anton P.
Nimmo Morris H.
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