Patent ID: 6984791

Claim:
In combination, an electrical terminator and an electrical bushing component, the terminator including a socket, the bushing component including a tongue receivable in the socket to electrically interconnect the terminator and bushing, the tongue and socket including a latching mechanism that positively latches the bushing component and terminator together when the tongue longitudinally enters the socket to a prescribed depth, the tongue including a color band on a portion of an outer circumferential surface of the tongue, the color band being arranged to enter the socket and to be radially covered completely by a covering portion of the socket when the tongue enters the socket to the prescribed depth to provide a visual indication of positive latching, the tongue including a longitudinal center axis and a longitudinal free end which constitutes an initial portion of the tongue to enter the socket, the color band being spaced longitudinally from the free end and being spaced radially from the longitudinal axis by a first radial distance, and wherein all other portions of the outer circumferential surface disposed between the color band and the free end are spaced radially from the center axis by a radial spacing no larger than the first radial distance, and the terminator including a structure configured to allow an operator to attach a stick to the terminator in order to manipulate the terminator relative to the bushing, wherein the color band is visible to the operator when the tongue has not entered the socket to the prescribed depth.