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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2010
Steven Rhea, St. Peters, MO (US);
James Keeven, O'Fallon, MO (US);
Frank Vlasaty, Lake St. Louis, MO (US);
William Hiner, O'Fallon, MO (US);
L. Herbert King, Jr., Jupiter, FL (US);
Steven Rhea, St. Peters, MO (US);
James Keeven, O'Fallon, MO (US);
Frank Vlasaty, Lake St. Louis, MO (US);
William Hiner, O'Fallon, MO (US);
L. Herbert King, Jr., Jupiter, FL (US);
The Patent Store LLC, O'Fallon, MO (US);
Abstract
An epidermal friendly twist-on wire connector and a method of applying an epidermal twist-on wire connector having a resilient gripping region including a set of low profile, resilient ribs that are circumferentially spaced so that a users thumb and fingers can compressively and sequentially engage and compress at least a portion of a plurality of ribs as well as the valley between the ribs during application of a wire securement torque to the twist-on wire connector while at the same time inhibiting or preventing epidermal trauma in a users thumb and fingers.