Patent ID: 7560645

Claim:
A finger friendly twist-on wire connector comprising: a hard shell having a spiral thread therein and an exterior surface consisting of a normal hand gripping region and a normal non hand gripping region; and a layer of tensionally unbiased resilient material secured to and extending over said exterior surface to form a finger friendly cover, said layer of resilient material providing three axis deflection with sufficient compressibility so as to comfortably compress in response to radial finger pressure and to laterally deform in response to finger torque regardless of a finger grasping position on the cover with the layer of resilient material having sufficient shear resistance so as to resiliently yield without tearing when the finger torque is applied to the cover, said layer of resilient material includes a resilient skirt extending beyond a base of the hard shell and a layer of heat shrinkable material located between the hard shell and the layer of tensionally unbiased cushion material.