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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2001
Gary Barnett, Ashby de la Zouch, GB;
B & H (Nottingham) Limited, , GB;
Abstract
An electrical connector has a connector body including a socket for an electrical conductor, the connector body having an electrically insulating shroud and having a threaded bore in which a connecting bolt is threadedly engaged. The connecting bolt is capable of actuation into engagement with a conductor inserted into the socket by providing a drive member engaged with the connecting bolt and extending through an opening in the insulating shroud to a rotatable, electrically insulating cap. The connecting bolt is slidably mounted on the drive member, the drive member being adapted to shear at a position between the opening in the insulating shroud and the point of engagement of the drive member with the connecting bolt when a predetermined torue is applied to the drive member, such that the cap and a residual portion of the drive member attached thereto can be withdrawn from the opening in the insulating shroud. The opening in the insulating shroud is adapted substantially to close after the drive member has so sheared and been withdrawn.