Abstract: Various methods and techniques for making barrel terminals are disclosed, all of which are based upon the initial formation of the terminal contactor strips as an integral flat sheet metal blank produced by a conventional stamping operation. The contactor strips may thus be maintained in a predetermined relationship with each other and manipulated as a unit through successive assembly steps well adapted to be performed by automated tooling.Several contactor strip blank configurations are disclosed, together with assembly methods for forming and assembling the blanks into completed barrel terminals.

Abstract: A barrel terminal socket is constructed by forming a sheet metal blank with uniformly spaced, parallel, longitudinal strips integrally connected at their opposite ends to transversely extending webs. The blank is then formed into a cylinder, inserted into a close-fitting cylindrical sleeve and one end of the blank is fixedly secured to the sleeve. The opposite end of the blank is then rotated relative to the sleeve through a predetermined angle and then fixedly secured in its rotated position to the sleeve.