Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company

James D Throne

Russell A Roiko

Comb means for continually directing a multiplicity of wires to the connecting station of a multiwire connecting apparatus for locking a multiplicity of wires in a multiwire connector.

Comb means for connecting station

A spring compression reserve contact element is used in both the female connector and the male connector of a standard type male-female telephone cable connector having parallel wire support channels. The contact element has an elongate wiping contact body and a bifurcate insulation and conductor connection end connected to the contact body coplanar with the adjoining portion thereof, parallel to the contact body and offset from the contact body a distance equal to one-half of the spacing between adjacent wire support channels of the connector.

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Maple Grove, MN, United States of America

James D Throne