Abstract: The connector is for receiving the edge of a printed circuit board and making contact with the pads along the edge thereof. The connector has a body in which is positioned a plurality of longitudinally arranged U-shaped sockets which receive the edge of the board. Formed points are located in the sockets at a different distance from the bottom of the socket. These points are spaced so that the board may slide therebetween and then, as the board is turned in the socket, it engages the points to make assured contact.

Abstract: A plurality of contacts are stamped out of flat sheet metal stock simultaneously with blank forming female rectangular contact boxes initially flat, with a male contact extending therefrom, and with each box material blank joined to a common carrier strip extending longitudinally of the contact array. The flat box material blanks are initially equal to or slightly less than a fraction of the distance D between uniformly spaced holes within the holder. While maintaining the contacts linked to the carrier strip, the lateral side edges of the box material blanks are bent up and swaged to thin the box material portions and laterally expand those portions, widthwise, in excess of D.