IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO A CRIMPING CLIP FOR ELECTRICALLY CONNECTING TOGETHER ELECTRICAL CONDUCTORS

• US 3,798,347 A
• Filed: 01/10/1972
• Issued: 03/19/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 01/11/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: David Sydney Butler, Frank James Lee, John Patrick Harding
• Original Assignee: David Sydney Butler, Frank James Lee, John Patrick Harding
• Inventors: Harding, John Patrick, Butler, David Sydney, Lee, Frank James
• Primary Examiner(s): Clay, Darrell L.
• Application Number:
  US05/216,410
• Time in Patent Office: 799 Days
• Field of Search: 174/84C,90,94R,87 339/95R,97C,97R,98,276R,276T 29/628,63F
• US Class Current: 174/84.00C
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 4/2495 Insulation penetration combined with permanent deformation of the contact member, e.g. crimping

Abstract

A crimping clip for jointing individual conductors in a multiconductor cable has tangs formed in areas of the clip over which the thickness is reduced as compared with other areas. Alternatively, the tangs are formed in a liner placed inside the clip and whose thickness is less than that of the clip.

Claims

1. A crimping clip for electrically connecting together two or more electrical conductors, said clip comprising a. an open-ended trough-shaped member of resilient electricallyconductive material having a base and two upstanding walls, b. said trough-shaped member having tangs extending inwardly of the trough from its base, c. the areas of said trough-shaped member in which said tangs are formed being of less thickness than the remainder of the base thereof.

2. A crimping clip as claimed in claim 1 in which said base of said trough-shaped members has areas over which the thickness is less than that of the remainder of said base, and in which each of said upstanding walls also has areas over which the thickness is less than that of the remainder of the wall, the tangs being formed in those areas.

3. A crimping clip as claimed in claim 1 in which each wall comprises an inner and an outer portion, the thickness of the inner Portion being less than that of the outer portion and in which tangs are formed only in the inner portion of each wall.

4. A crimping clip as claimed in claim 3 in which the inner portions are extensions of the outer portions.

5. A crimping clip as claimed in claim 1 in which the base of the clip has at least two upstanding members in longitudinal alignment and positioned to divide the clip into separate longitudinal wire receiving portions, the tangs being located within said portions.

6. A crimping clip as claimed in claim 1 in which the member has an outer covering of an electrically-insulating material.

7. A crimping clip as claimed in claim 1 in which the areas of the trough-shaped member in which said tangs are formed are integral with the remainder of said base portion.