Patent ID: 7404745

Claim:
A terminal contact and clamp assembly for a cable terminal block comprising: a cage clamp being hollow, made of metal and having a front open end, a rear open end and a top and further having a bottom having an inner bottom surface having four corners; a through hole defined through the cage clamp and communicating with the front open end and the rear open end; multiple bottom teeth formed on the inner bottom surface of the bottom of the cage clamp and each bottom tooth having a top end flush with the inner bottom surface; at least one protruding tooth being sharp and formed transversely on and protruding up from the inner bottom surface of the bottom of the cage clamp, and each protruding tooth having a top end higher than the inner bottom surface; and four guides being slope-like, formed respectively on the four corners of the inner bottom surface of the bottom of the cage clamp and each guide having an inside inclined surface; and an inner contact being L-shaped, made of metal, mounted through the rear open end of the cage clamp, cooperating with the bottom of the cage clamp to be adapted to tightly hold an exposed wire core of a cable and having a top mounted through the rear open end of the cage clamp in the through hole and having two opposite edges, an inner top surface and two pair of positioning notches and, wherein the positioning notches of each pair are defined in one edge of the top and are engaged respectively with two of the guides on the cage clamp; a rear wall; and multiple top teeth formed on the inner top surface of the inner contact.