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Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2016

Filed:

Mar. 12, 2013
Applicants:

Lloyd Herbert King, Jr., Jupiter, FL (US);

James C. Keeven, O'Fallon, MO (US);

William Hiner, O'Fallon, MO (US);

Steven Rhea, St. Peters, MO (US);

Frank Vlasty, St. Louis, MO (US);

Inventors:

Lloyd Herbert King, Jr., Jupiter, FL (US);

James C. Keeven, O'Fallon, MO (US);

William Hiner, O'Fallon, MO (US);

Steven Rhea, St. Peters, MO (US);

Frank Vlasty, St. Louis, MO (US);

Assignee:

Other;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R 43/04 (2006.01); H01R 43/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R 43/00 (2013.01); Y10T 29/49218 (2015.01);
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.


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