Claims
- 1. A method of making an electrical connector, said method including the steps of:
- moving a strip of metallic material through a plurality of workstations;
- removing material from the strip to form a blank including contact element means which includes two opposed beams connected together electrically and having bifurcated first end portions with the furcations of each bifurcated end portion having a conductor-receiving slot formed therebetween, the blank also having a frame which includes lateral portions extending transversely across the strip for supporting said contact element means and being connected to second end portions of the beams and which is connected at each end to an end portion of the connector along which are formed tangs for securing a conductor to the connector;
- separating each blank from the strip;
- causing portions of the first end portions of the beams to project from the plane of the blank;
- bending the tangs at each end of the connector out of the plane of the blank to cause them to be adapted to receive a conductor and adapted to be wrapped about the conductor; and
- forming an offset in each end portion of the connector between the tangs at that end and the frame.
- 2. The method of claim 1, wherein the lateral portions of the frame are turned out of a plane of the blank to extend parallel to a plane which includes the second end portions of the beams and the end portions of the connector along which the tangs are formed.
- 3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first end portions of the beams are adjacent to each other and the second end portions are connected to opposed ends of the frame at junction points with the end portions of the connector.
- 4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first end portions of the beams are spaced apart through a waist portion and the second end portions of the beams are connected through the waist portion which is connected to a lateral portion of the frame.
Parent Case Info
This is a division of application Ser. No. 403,906 filed July 30, 1982, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,472,596 issued Sept. 18, 1984.
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