Abstract: A device for mutually engaging the optical faces of at least one pair of optical fibres in a fiber connecting device comprises a mounting plate provided with means for detachably mounting in a given position with respect to the connecting device, at least one pair of clamping members adapted to assume a rest position where at least one of said fibres is left free and an active position where the said fibre is held in order to be displaced so as to be brought into engagement with the other fibre and means for displacing the said pair of clamping members toward said other fibre of the pair when the clamping members are in active position.

Abstract: The invention relates to the field of contact elements for electric connection. In use, when these elements are positioned and connected to the wiring of circuits by automatic machines, they are fixed in a large number on a supporting strip or border, from which they are successively detached by a V-shaped cut. In accordance with the invention, they are firmly secured by means of a transverse V-section bar supported by a stirrup. After the V cut, the contact thus presents advantageously a pyramid-shaped point.