Patent ID: 7967649

Claim:
A contact comprising: a wire part formed of sheet metal, lying completely on and defining a main plane, and formed with two spaced throughgoing slits of a predetermined width and defining a web, the web being deformed into an open position out of the main plane and defining a seat passage adapted to receive a wire and open parallel to the main plane, the web being plastically deformable when the wire is in the seat into a closed position lying completely in the main plane with the wire passing through both slits and being pinched on opposite sides of the web, the wire part being formed with support rails extending parallel to each other, flanking the slots and tongue, and extending down out of the main plane; and a contact part formed unitarily of the sheet metal with the wire part and lying completely in the main plane, the contact part having a V- or U-shaped throughgoing hole defining a spring tongue lying completely in the main plane in the closed position and projecting at an acute angle out of the main plane in the open position.