Insulation displacement connector terminal block

Abstract

A terminal block mounts a plurality of bi-ended insulation displacement connector type terminal clips formed of an electrically conductive material, each terminal clip having a base portion and a pair of similar insulation displacing wire-engaging portions projecting oppositely outwardly from the base portion. A plurality of activators are configured for selectively electrically coupling wires to the terminal clips. A block body formed of an electrical insulator material has an upper block section and a lower block section configured for releasably lockingly interengaging the upper block section. Alignment structures are formed respectively on the upper and lower block sections for coaxially aligning respective ones of the walls and cavities. Each pair of coaxially aligned cavities are configured for surroundingly receiving one of the terminal clips with the wire-engaging portions thereof extending toward one of said opposite open ends of each cavity, and each cavity being configured for receiving an activator slidably movable therein between a first position for permitting the insertion of a conductor into the activator externally of an associated cavity, and a second position for engaging a conductor inserted into the activator with the wire-engaging portion of a terminal clip in the associated cavity.