Patent ID: 7988481

Claim:
In an electrical disconnect having first and second housings each containing at least one electrical contact therein, the housings defining a longitudinal axis along which the housings are movable to engage and disengage one another, each of the first and second housings having an electrical contact therein which is disposed entirely within the housing, the contact of one of the first and second housings having a front portion which is releasably electrically engageable with a front portion of a counterpart contact in the other of the first and second housings, each of the electrical contacts having a spring finger flexibly attached thereto for engagement with a conductor formed by a conductive, stripped end of a wire to be inserted into the housing, the improvement comprising each of said first and second housings having at least one wire port and at least one wire receptacle box opposite the wire port with the spring finger disposed between the wire port and wire receptacle box, the wire receptacle box being extended outwardly from an end face of the first and second housings and disposed in a path of said conductor inserted into the housing to receive the end of said conductor and the wire receptacle box having an end wall arranged to limit insertion of the conductor into the housing, the wire receptacle box further including top, bottom and side walls which together surround the path of said conductor inserted into the housing, the top, bottom and side walls of the wire receptacle box being close enough to one another to prevent splaying in all directions.