Connector for electrical conductors

Claim 1

A CONNECTOR FOR ELECTRICAL CONDUCTORS, COMPRISING AN INSULATED CAP MEMBER HAVING A BODY PORTION OPEN AT ONE END AND CLOSED AT THE OTHER END AND A SKIRT PORTION DEPENDING FROM THE SAID ONE END OF THE BODY PORTION AND OPENING OUTWARDLY THEREFROM AND AN OPEN NECK PORTION INTERMEDIATE THE BODY AND SKIRT PORTIONS, THE OPENING OF SAID NECK PORTION BEING OF SMALLER DIAMETER THAN THE DIAMETER OF THE ADJACENT END OF THE BODY PORTION, A COIL SPRING MEMBER PROPORTIONED FOR FORCED INSERTION THROUGH THE OPEN NECK PORTION AND INTO THE BODY PORTION SAID SPRING MEMBER BEING DISPOSED IN SAID BODY PORTION, SAID SPRING MEMBER HAVING A CONVOLUTION AT ONE END OF A DIAMETER GREATER THAN THAT OF THE OPENING OF THE NECK PORTION SO THAT ON INSERTION OF SAID SPRING MEMBER INTO THE BODY PORTION OF THE CONNECTOR FORCEFULLY THROUGH THE NECK PORTION, THE LATTER WILL PRECLUDE ACCIDENTAL MOVEMENT OF THE SPRING MEMBER OUT OF THE BODY MEMBER, SAID BODY MEMBER HAVING A PLURALITY OF CIRCUMFERENTIALLY ARRANGED VANES INTERIOR THEREOF OF AT THE END REMOTE FROM THE NECK PORTION OF THE CONNECTOR, SAID VANES BEING SPACED FROM EACH OTHER CIRCUMFERENTIALLY TO DEFINE SLOTS THEREBETWEEN PARALLEL TO THE LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF THE CONNECTOR, THE OTHER END OF THE SPRING BEING DIRECTED AT AN ANGLE TO THE LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF THE SPRING AND IN SELECTIVE ENGAGEMENT WITH ONE OF SAID SLOTS, TO THEREBY REGISTER THE SPRING WITH THE SLOT, SAID VANES BEING GENERALLY TRIANGULAR IN CROSS-SECTION AND HAVING AN INNER FACE GENERALLY PARALLEL TO THE LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF THE CONNECTOR AND FORMING A RAMP FOR GUIDING THE OTHER END OF SAID SPRING INTO THE ADJACENT SLOT, SAID CONNECTOR BEING ADAPTED TO BE TURNED ON CONDUCTORS INSERTED THEREIN TO INTERLOCK THE CONDUCTORS WITH THE CONNECTOR.