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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 1984
Filed:
Nov. 27, 1981
Applicant:
Inventors:
Lane A Freshwater, Lino Lakes, MN (US);
Eugene E Moynagh, Afton, MN (US);
Assignee:
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, Saint Paul, MN (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
339 / ; 3391 / ;
Abstract
A tap connector for tapping branch conductors to conductors of a bus cable has an insulating base, a plurality of tap contacts retained in the base and an insulating cover. Each contact is a flat metal plate having three parallel, closely spaced legs extending from one edge. The two outer legs lie in a common plane and the center leg lies in a plane parallel to the common plane and is offset therefrom creating conductor connection slots between the center leg and each of the outer legs for a conductor of a bus cable and a tapping branch conductor at an angle to the bus conductor.