Abstract: A woven multiconductor cable and method of making the same includes at least two longitudinal sections arranged in a side-by-side manner having a plurality of elongated conductors and a cut-line formed between the sections along which the filling strand of the woven cable may be cut along a desired length of the cable to separate the cable into individual sections which remain bound by alternate picks of the filling strand.

Abstract: An improved cable is provided having both the advantages of mass termination of flat cable and the flexibility of a cable with independent conductors for use in limited space situations. A plurality of substantially parallel and aligned insulated conductors is provided having a layer of flat backing material substantially covering the conductors. There is a layer of adhesive between the conductors and the backing. A further layer of a nonadhesive material is utilized over the adhesive so that the adhesive will not stick to itself in the event that the cable is bent. The adhesive bond between the conductors and the backing material is such that the backing is easily hand peeled from the conductors.

Abstract: There is disclosed a terminal connecting block and bracket assembly. The terminal connecting block contains a plurality of flat elongate electrically conductive elements. Each element in the block comprises a flat base portion and at least one pair of opposing insulating shearing contact fingers projecting from the base portion and integral therewith. The opposing contact fingers project upwardly from the terminal block. Each electrically conductive element also contains a tang projecting from the opposite end of the base portion. A plurality of the electrically conductive elements are in electrical contact with a unitary electrical connector, e.g., a male or female connector, by means of electrically conductive wires. One end of each wire is attached to one of said tangs and the other end of each wire is attached to the unitary electrical connector. The terminal connecting block is used in combination with a bracket for mounting the block on a surface.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a wire duct having an adjustable clip for retaining wires within the duct thus improving the utility and efficiency of the duct.

Abstract: The present invention is an electrical wiring system for incorporation into a motor vehicle which includes a junction harness having numerous terminals for individual connection with corresponding terminals of various loads, switches, the power source and units for electrical appliances of the motor vehicle through independent single wires so that complicated interconnections between such loads, switches, the power source and units for electrical appliances are collectively made within the junction harness for simplification of wiring.

Abstract: This invention relates to a re-formable multiconductor flat, or ribbon, cable, which comprises a plurality of spaced insulated conductors, aligned in a predetermined, laterally spaced, pattern along a single sheet or film of plastic, the single sheet of plastic being only intermittently bonded to the laterally spaced conductors. The intermittent bonding pattern preferably utilized is one that results in transverse, peelably bonded, areas extending across the width of the entire cable alternating with transverse unbonded areas which also extend across the width of the entire cable.

Abstract: A cover for an open face terminal block, with or without a distributor panel adjacent one end of the block, for telephone installation equipment, said cover comprising a flat top which overlies the open face of the terminal block, or overlies said block and distributor panel, and extends sidewise beyond the side walls of the block, snap tabs depending from the inner surface of the flat top inwardly of the side edges of the top in positions which provide frictional engagement of the snap tabs with the side walls of the terminal block when the cover is pressed down on the block, and, if a distributor panel is present, distributor panel engaging means located on the inner surface of the cover top in the area located outwardly of the terminal block side walls, said cover covering adjacent blocks and space between them whereby tops and sides of the blocks are protected.

Abstract: A sheet of extruded material is provided with a breakaway line by positioning a pin in the extrusion die in a manner such that the pin extends into the path of the material being extruded to divide a portion of the material into two streams which rejoin each other past the pin and weld together to form an autogenous bond between the converging surfaces. In a preferred embodiment the breakaway line is present in the sides of a U-shaped channel of the type used as a duct for electrical wiring.

Abstract: The following specification describes a system for prefabricating a wiring harness by extending the conductors of flat ribbon cable in desired directions to specific or predetermined locations and slitting the insulating lengthwise at those locations to permit selected conductors to project for connection to a contactor terminal.A projecting conductor is also folded back if it is to be connected to a contact at another location, and to enable the folded back conductor and the other conductors to then extend in a smooth cable, the other conductors are folded at the end of the slit in two reverse legs or three bends corresponding in length to the projection of the connected folded back conductor.Contacts having insulation piercing shanks of unique design are provided for secure insulation piercing engagement with either folded projecting conductors or terminated conductors.

Abstract: A connector housing includes an electrical terminal attached to a carrier strip and an integrally-molded insulation housing over the terminal and carrier strip.

Abstract: Electrical harness comprises a plurality of conductors to which switches and electrical loads are connected. The connections between the conductors and loads or switches are made with a connecting device comprising an insulating body having a recess which receives the conductors in side-by-side parallel relationship. A conductor to which a connection is made is electrically exposed and a contact arm mounted on the body extends across the recess and contacts the exposed conductor. The load or switch is connected to the contact arm by a plug on the end of a lead wire which is inserted into the body and which engages the contact arm when it is inserted.

Abstract: A pin structure for a wiring duct and wire holder modular system for use in wiring electrical equipment as used in control panels and electrical cabinets for machine tools, industrial installations, computers and the like, consisting of modular units for supporting and distributing to electrical equipment a plurality of electrical conductors which are routed through a plurality of wiring duct modular units interlocked end to end or at a right angle to each other for forming branching wireways, or T-connections, and turns, or L-connections.

Abstract: This turn signal wiring replacement harness is adapted to be owner-installed in place of the worn-out or defective factory-installed signal circuit wiring. It consists of a main flexible conduit containing wiring to a flasher, signal light and signal switch on the dash board, for connection to the storage battery. The main conduit has a pair of flexible conduit branches through the right branch of which wires lead to the front and rear right turn signal lights; and through the left branch of which other wires lead to the front and rear left turn signal lights.

Abstract: A support pin assembly for mounting a wiring passageway cover on a wiring passageway base. The assembly, made of plastic material, consists of a pin and a support clip having a mounting aperture for fastening to the wiring passageway base. The clip has a pair of pin-mounting apertures spaced on opposite sides of the mounting aperture. There is a latching lip at the edge of each pin-mounting aperture. The base of the pin is generally U-shaped with extending legs each terminating in a hook configuration for locking engagement with the latching lip of one of the pin-mounting apertures.

Abstract: A multi-conductor cable harness includes a trunk having a woven cover enclosing a plurality of conductor wires, and a series of reduced trunk cover segments extended therefrom. Branches of wires are broken out of the woven cover at junctions of adjacent reduced segments so as to be spaced laterally, longitudinally and vertically with respect to each other. The branch portions are accurately separated into distinct branches for providing programmed connections for the conductor wires.

Abstract: A wiring duct, or wireway, of the type used in electrical equipment for supporting and retaining electrical conductors and for permitting individual conductors to be routed to and from the wiring duct, in the form of a U-shaped channel having sidewalls, at least one of which has a plurality of longitudinally spaced slits open to the edge of the wall defining a plurality of flexible finger-like members. Each slit is substantially wider at one end than the other and has sides diverging at a predetermined angle towards the edge of the sidewall but terminating proximate each edge by a narrow gap restriction permitting passage of the conductors routed through the slit as a result of the deflection of the flexible finger-like members. The width of each slit at its widest portion is at least 1.5 that of its width at its narrowest portion.

Abstract: A terminal box and cover in which the box has parallel longitudinal side walls comprising longitudinally spaced apart straight sided members terminating in flat tops which overhang the spaces between them, and the cover has a flat top and depending side walls provided with latch devices on their inner side surfaces which enter the spaces in the box side walls and engage the under surfaces of the tops of said box side wall members. The cover end walls have spacer blocks on their inner surfaces which bear on the upper edges of the box walls when the cover is in place on the box and prevent bearing of the cover top on connectors mounted in the terminal box. The latch devices on the cover side walls do not occupy any space between the respective side walls of the box and cover when the cover is in place on the box, and thus permit the cover to have a close fit on the box side walls.

Abstract: A harness cable connector is shown which receives a plurality of insulated wires by a press fit for retaining the wires in a spaced configuration during insertion and assembly of the wires in a printed circuit board. The cable connector is then rolled and locked into the printed circuit board to provide strain relief for the harness cable.

Abstract: A flexible branching strip for a wire bundle comprises a pair of preferably flat elongate interlocking members selectively spaced from one another and joined together at discrete intervals by flexible web portions. One of the members contains a series of open wire receiving slots interposed between respective tongue portions which are interlockingly engageable within a series of transverse openings in the other member. Selected wires of a wire bundle may be branched out of the bundle and disposed within respective wire receiving slots, and the strip curled about the branched bundle so that the members may be interlocked to one another with the web portions operating as spaced bundle ties about the unbranched portion of the wire bundle. The branching strip may be temporarily supported in a slotted strip support attachable to a wiring board for convenient orientation of the wire receiving slots during the branching operation.

Abstract: A connector block for interfacing incoming telephone lines to telephone central office switching equipment includes a generally rectangular elongated mounting panel having a plurality of sockets arranged in groups in horizontal rows and vertical columns across a major portion of the width of the panel. Each of the socket groups mounts a generally rectangular plug-in protector assembly in such a manner that the long side of the protector assembly is generally parallel to the horizontal rows of socket groups. Adjacent to and associated with each two rows of the socket groups is a group of cross-connect pin terminal holes. Integrally formed with the edge of the mounting panel adjacent the groups of cross-connect pin terminal holes is a fanning strip having a flange portion transversely extending from the panel through which flange portion extends a plurality of openings to permit access between the front and back of the panel.

Abstract: Apparatus for quickly and economically creating a telephone cable interconnecting point is disclosed. The apparatus includes a backboard having a planar pan formed with a plurality of holes oriented in a predetermined pattern. Terminal block supporting brackets having an open throat and wire guide posts or distributing rings are fastened to the backboard with integral fasteners which permit the cable to be layed in place and captured when the terminal block is mounted on the brackets. The brackets and posts are capable of being spaced in oriented patterns to accept the cables, brackets and associated terminal blocks.

Abstract: Wire routing guides are used on circuit boards employing solder pads plated onto the reverse side of an insulative board in an orthogonal array and connected to aligned conductive areas on the obverse side by plated-through holes. The wire routing guides, having upstanding fingers, are mounted on the reverse side of the board with conductive pins from electrical components extending through the holes in the board from the obverse side to the reverse side. Insulated wire is threaded around the wire routing guides and pins of the electrical components and guided in accordance with a predetermined pattern of component interconnections. For interconnections between points on the board, wire is threaded substantially orthogonally.

Abstract: An electronic system pallet having a girdered false deck for the installation of a plurality of electronic units or consoles thereon to form one or more electronic systems. The units or consoles are cabled together through the girdered false deck, and are connected to one or more connector junctions in the pallet edge.

Abstract: A one-piece bracket for retaining a rectilinear terminal block or the like in a stand-off position above a support panel. The bracket includes means for insuring aggressive gripping of the terminal block by the bracket.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for wiring a building structure including a factory-assembled wiring harness having a trunk cable portion and a plurality of branch cable portions, each branch cable portion having an electrical terminal device, such as a switch or outlet, permanently electrically secured to the end thereof. Installation is facilitated by individually packaging the electrical terminal devices and a portion of the branch cable secured thereto in individual plastic bags, and wrapping the entire harness in an elongate plastic envelope which is then rolled up from one end to the other. In the preferred example, the wiring harness is placed on a grid-like ceiling module and unrolled longitudinally from one end to the other. The envelope is opened and the individual terminal devices are extended outwardly therefrom and tacked in place and left hanging around the outside of the ceiling module.