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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 1985
Filed:
Sep. 26, 1983
Applicant:
Inventor:
Willard E Rapp, Franklin Township, Somerset County, NJ (US);
Assignee:
AT&T Technologies, Inc., New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R / ; B23P / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
29845 ; 29739 ; 3391 / ;
Abstract
An insertion head (80) for inserting a contact (30) having opposed tines (34--34) into a connector cavity (28) having opposed ribs (49--49) protruding from the inner wall thereof. The insertion head (80) severs a contact (30) from a spine (44) of contact strip (42) and the contact (30) is then moved laterally, away from the strip, to a vertically aligned position above the cavity (28). A punch (128) pushes the contact (30) into the cavity (28) while simultaneously spreading the tines (34--34) apart to straddle the opposed ribs (49--49).