Abstract: A method and apparatus for making an encapsulated electrically conducting component is provided. A wire is placed across a mold cavity for forming substantially one-half of the component body. A substantially flat-surfaced second mold having a groove is placed against a first mold to hold the wire in the groove and in alignment with respect to the cavity of the first mold while fluid plastic material is injected therein to encapsulate a substantially semi-cylindrical surface portion of the wire and form one-half of the conducting component body. Next, a third mold is placed against the first mold. The third mold has a cavity defining substantially the remaining half of the component body. The fluid plastic is injected through the first mold and into the cavity in the third mold to form a completed, composite molded body.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for making an encapsulated, three-piece electrically conducting component, such as a fuse, are provided wherein a progressive stamping die is used to form a pair of spaced apart blades in a sheet stock of electrically conducting metal. Each blade has at one end a terminal portion connected to a carrier member formed from the strip and at the other end a pair of spaced-apart rear bearing members and a flexibly hinged front bearing tongue disposed between the rear bearing members. The rear bearing members have a cradle with a substantially concave cross section for receiving a conducting wire therein. In the die, the tongue is forced outwardly away from the rear bearing members to provide an opening between the distal end of the bearing tongue and the cradles of the rear bearing members. A continuous wire may be inserted into the blades. Then the force on the tongue is relieved to permit it to move back toward the rear bearing members to securely clamp the wire in the cradles.

Abstract: A thermometer comprises a transparent flexible tubular outer shield, a slender solid rod or core positioned within the shield, the core having a fine groove in the external surface thereof which together with the shield forms a capillary passageway and a bulb housing attached to one end of said tubing to provide a reservoir for expansible temperature indicating fluid. All of the thermometer components can be formed of inexpensive plastic materials.The manufacturing method for the thermometer includes the steps of inserting the core into the tube by expanding the tube and forcing the core therein to form a thermometer stem, and inserting the lower end of the tubing into the bulb housing, filling the bulb housing with the expansible fluid, and sealing the bulb housing and the top of the thermometer stem.

Abstract: A three-piece solderless plug-in electrically conducting component is provided for mounting in an electrical connector. An elongate conducting element is transversely disposed across two spaced-apart generally parallel blades and is secured at each of its ends to a spring clip near the end of each blade. In the preferred embodiment of the present invention, the component functions as a fuse wherein the elongate conducting element is a generally cylindrical fuse wire and wherein a solid unitary body of electrically insulating material encapsulates the fuse wire and spring clip of each of the blades with the external surfaces of the fuse wire and blade spring clip portions being in intimate contact with the encapsulating material. The spring clip has a pair of spaced-apart rear bearing members and a flexibly hinged front bearing tongue between the rear bearing members.

Abstract: A component and method for applying end caps thereto is provided. A wire extends within a body defining a body sidewall and oppositely facing body ends with opposite end portions of the wire extending outwardly beyond the body ends and bent over so that they lie adjacent to each end of the body. Two end caps are provided, each having a cylindrical first portion and a cylindrical second portion with a diameter less than the first portion and joined to the first portion by an annular shoulder. The cylindrical second portion has an end wall so that the second portion defines a chamber. A solder and flux mixture is deposited in the chambers of the end caps which are then each applied to an end portion of the body with the cylindrical first portion compressively embracing the sidewall of the body adjacent one end thereof. The shoulder of the end cap bears against the body end to maintain the end wall of the cap at a predetermined distance from the body end and thereby prevent severance of the wire end portion.

Abstract: A disposable identification band blank comprising a laminated, elongated flexible body which terminates in overlappable extremities. The laminated body includes a segment of pressure-sensitive record material sandwiched between a flexible base strip and a transparent cover strip which overlies the record material and is adhesively bonded both to the record material and to the base strip.

Abstract: A disposable identification band blank comprising a laminated, elongated flexible body which terminates in overlappable extremities. The laminated body includes a segment of pressure-sensitive record material sandwiched between a flexible base strip and a transparent cover strip which overlies the record material and is adhesively bonded both to the record material and to the base strip.