Multiple outlet electrical connector

• US 3,998,517 A
• Filed: 06/20/1975
• Issued: 12/21/1976
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/1975
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Royal Wire & Cable Incorporated
• Original Assignee: International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. (ITT, Inc.)
• Inventors: Griffin, Richard H.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lake, Roy
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bicks, Mark S.
• Application Number:
  US05/588,758
• Time in Patent Office: 550 Days
• Field of Search: 339/19, 339/20, 339/28, 339/29, 339/154, 339/163, 339/164 R, 339/164 M, 339/198 S, 339/198 P, 339/256 SP, 339/258 S
• US Class Current: 439/107
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 31/02 Intermediate parts for distributing energy to two or more circuits in parallel, e.g. splitter with a holder adapted for supporting apparatus to which its counterpart is attached H01R33/92

Abstract

A multiple outlet connector cordset provides a plurality of three-wire receptacles connected to a single three-wire electrical line. Two or three outlets having locking or straight contacts are connected in parallel. The wires from the outlets are connected through sliding detachable terminals to blades extending from a plurality of parallel longitudinal connecting strips or bus bars. The strips are mounted within a premold rectangular support and have additional blades on the opposite side which connect through further terminals to the input wires. The premold and terminals hold the elements in position for a final molding operation. The entire assembly of receptacles, contacts, and wires, terminals, strips and rectangular premold is molded into a single integral outer insulation cover.

Claims

1. An electrical connector having a multiple wire electrical supply line interconnected to a plurality of electrical outlets each having the same plurality of wires associated therewith including a plurality of flat conductive strips, each strip having a plurality of connecting tabs extending from one edge thereof for connecting each of said outlet wires thereto and one connecting tab extending from the opposite edge thereof for connecting a corresponding wire of said supply line, insulating means having a plurality of slots therethrough for positioning said strips in a spaced insulated relationship, and terminals on each of said wires connected to said connecting tabs whereby each of the wires of said supply line is connected to one of said connecting tabs extending from said opposite edge of each of said strips and each of said connecting tabs on said one side is connected to a wire associated with each of said outlets.

2. The electrical connector of claim 1, further including an outer common integral molded cover enclosing said supply line, said outlets, said strips and said insulating means.

3. The electrical connector of claim 2, wherein said supply line has two wires interconnected by two of said strips to two, two-wire outlets.

4. The electrical connector of claim 2, wherein said supply line has three wires interconnected by three of said strips to three, three-wire outlets.