Patent ID: 6851966
Filing Date: 2005-02-08
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. A T-tap connector for connecting into a main insulated conductor wire comprising in combination, a nonconductive housing member having first and second chambers, a wall separating said first and second chambers, each chamber having a threaded connection wall and a central axis, a common conductive member mounted in the wall separating said chambers, said common conductive member having an insulation-piercing sharp point on one end thereof and a means at the opposite end for clamping a wire thereto, a first nonconductive coupling member having a threaded annular wall and an internal throughbore, said throughbore having first and second ends with one of said ends being shaped to clamp at least one bare wire end to said common conductive element when the threaded wall on said first nonconductive coupling member is threadably engaged with the threaded wall of said first chamber, a second nonconductive coupling member, said second nonconductive coupling member having a threaded surface which is adapted to threadably engage with the said threaded connection wall on said second chamber having said sharp point, said second nonconductive coupling member and having a pair of aligned slots therein for receiving and centering said main insulated conductor wire with said sharp point, being adapted when threadably engaged with the threaded connection wall of said second chamber multiply the force to press said main conductor wire into engagement with said sharp point, whereby said sharp point pierces the insulation of said main insulated conductor wire to thereby electrically connect said main insulated conductor wire to said at least one bare wire end.