US3838206A - Wire connector for two electric wires, which may possible be connected to electric detonators - Google Patents

Wire connector for two electric wires, which may possible be connected to electric detonators Download PDF

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US3838206A
US3838206A US00353489A US35348973A US3838206A US 3838206 A US3838206 A US 3838206A US 00353489 A US00353489 A US 00353489A US 35348973 A US35348973 A US 35348973A US 3838206 A US3838206 A US 3838206A
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    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R4/00—Electrically-conductive connections between two or more conductive members in direct contact, i.e. touching one another; Means for effecting or maintaining such contact; Electrically-conductive connections having two or more spaced connecting locations for conductors and using contact members penetrating insulation
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  • the stripped end of one of the conductors is inserted between the inner sleeve and the outer sleeve and secured to the inner sleeve.
  • the inner sleeve is secured against axial displacement within the outer sleeve and rotation relative thereto.
  • the stripped end of the second conductor is inserted into the inner sleeve and the stripped ends of both conductors are of a length such that they protrude from the inner sleeve into the outer sleeve.
  • the present invention is related to a wire connector for achieving electric contact between two electric wires where adjoining connecting wires each may be connected to an electric detonator.
  • the function of the wire connector is primarily to connect a greater number of electric detonators in series.
  • Each electric detonator has one fuse wire and one wire, which is terminated at a wire connector.
  • Known wire connectors are usually designed as cylindrical tubes or sleeves, which are sealed at one end and preferably made of plastic material.
  • the wire connector sleeve is internally fitted with a tube of electrically conducting material such as aluminum and which inner tube more or less lines the internal surface of the wire connector sleeve. Inserted between the sleeve and the metal tube is one end of an electric wire, which preferably is insolated, whereas the length of wire inserted between the sleeve and the metal tube is stripped. The lower part of the wire passes the lower edge of the metal tube and is at its inner end U-bent and inserted back into the tube. The tube with thus located wire end is then pinched together in such a way that the inner peripheral surface of the lower end of the tube is divided into two sections, which are closely facing each other and squeezing the inserted wire end.
  • the pinched metal tube is now of a more or less kidney-shaped character.
  • the wire connector with thus fastended wire is now prepared to receive a second wire end from an adjoining detonator, which wire end is stripped and inserted into the tube.
  • the second inserted wire may be U-bent or provided with a tin plate, so that contact is obtained with the inner peripheral surface of the tube.
  • the tin plate may be of rectangular shape and overfolded to thus fasten the inserted wire to the plate.
  • the purpose of the present invention is to obtain a wire connector of above mentioned type, where the resulting electric contact between the wires is highly effective and where good electric contact between the connected electric wires is fully ensured.
  • the new wire connector is in general of the same design as the above described wire connector and has also an internal metal tube and an electric wire, which is fastened in the same manner as mentioned above.
  • the novelty of this invention' is that the metal tube only has a length sufficiently long to lock the one wire end.
  • the length of the tube may for example be only one-fourth of known length and need not be of electrically conducting material.
  • Above the metal tube the fastened wire is stripped for a length of, for example, approximately 2 cm.
  • the wire end, which is to be connected is in stripped condition inserted into the connector sleeve in such a way as to place the stripped length parallel to the length of stripped and fastened wire above the metal tube. In this situation the connector sleeve is turned around its own axis.
  • the wire end which is inserted between the inner peripheral surface of the connector sleeve and the tube of electrically conducting material, may instead be inserted into the, tube proper and anchored to its bottom. This means that both wire ends are inserted into the tube proper.
  • FIG. 1 shows the methode of application for wire connectors according to the present invention
  • FIG. 2 shows a connector sleeve with a fastened wire end
  • FIG. 3 shows a connector sleeve according to FIG. 2, where the second wire end is being inserted
  • FIG. 4 shows the second wire end fully inserted into the connector sleeve
  • FIG. 5 shows the connector sleeve during the turning movement around its longitudinal axis, whereby the two wire ends are twisted around each other and where FIG. 6 shows the twisted wire ends.
  • FIG. 1 shows a section of ground provided with three drillholes 2, 3 and 4.
  • an electric detonator cartridge 5, 6 and 7 is inserted respectivly.
  • Two electrically isolated conductors are extending from each electric detonator cartridge, namely the wires 8 and 9 from the cartridge 5, the wires 11 and 12 from the detonator cartridge 6 and the wires 14 and 15 from the detonator cartridge 7.
  • the wire 9 is at its one end provided with a wire connector 10, which will be described in more detail hereinafter.
  • the wire 11 from the electric detonator cartridge 6 is inserted into said sleeve 10.
  • the wire 12 is thus also provided with a wire connector 13 of the same type as the wire connector 10.
  • the wire connectors By means of the wire connectors any number of electric detonator cartridges can be interconnected in series. It should, however, be obvious that the wire connectors not necessarily have to be wired to electric detonators but may function as connecting members for various types of circuit components.
  • FIG. 2 shows an electric wire connector sleeve 10, which is identical to the connector sleeve 13. It consists preferably of an outer cover or sleeve of plastics material but may of course consist of other materials or combination of materials.
  • the connector sleeve is provided with a tube 16 preferably of electrically conducting material for example aluminum.
  • the tube is at its left end expanded into a collar 17, which collar may snap into an annular groove 10a on the inside of the sleeve 10.
  • the sleeve is at its left end expanded such that the electric conductor 9 with its stripped end 18 easily may be inserted into the sleeve in such a way that the wire is located between the outer peripheral surface of the tube 16 and the inner peripheral surface of the sleeve or cover.
  • the outermost end of the wire 19 is U-bent and inserted back into the tube 16 and is in some way or other joined to the tube for example by welding or by pressing the tube end together so that the peripheral inner surface of the tube is transformed into two parts facing each other.
  • the wire end 19 is now sandwiched and squeezed.
  • the function of the tube is thus to fasten the wire end 19 and the tube may be made of any material, which will perform this function. A conceivable material is even plastics.
  • the wire 18 and the tube 16 are preferably inserted into the sleeve simultaneously and in the process the wire is kept fastened to the right end of the tube 16. It should also be obvious that the sleeve may be made out of a plastic tube, that is the right bottom part may be omitted.
  • the wire 9 has a stripped length to the left of the tube 16.
  • the described sleeve 10 with inserted wire 9 is now ready to receive a second wire 20 with its stripped wire end 21.
  • FIG. 3 shows the wire 20 being inserted into the wire connector sleeve 10.
  • FIG. 4 shows the wire 20 fully introduced, where it is clearly shown that the stripped sections 18 and 21 of the wires 9 and 20 are approximately of simular lengths. A turning movement to join the wires is now possible.
  • the sleeve 10 is turned around its longitudinal axis.
  • the wire 9 is rigidly fastened to the sleeve 10 a twisting of the wires will occur when turning the sleeve around its longitudinal axis as is clearly indicated by FIG. 16.
  • the described invention may be varied within wide limits, whereby the essential points are, that both of the wires are peeled at the sections where they are to be joined by twisting and that one of the wire ends is rigidly connected to the connector sleeve, which when turned causes the one wire to move around the second wire and thus to be twisted around and joined to the second wire.
  • the electrical wire connector may with great advantage be used pre-connected to one of the wires of an electric detonator whereby the second wire end before the use of the detonator is inserted into the connector sleeve and thus protected.
  • a connector for conductively connecting stripped ends of two insulation covered conductor wires comprising: an outer sleeve and an inner sleeve of shorter length than the outer sleeve and nested therein in coaxial relationship, said inner sleeve being retained in the outer sleeve against axial displacement and rotation relative thereto, the stripped end of one of the conductors being inserted between the inner wall surface of the outer sleeve and the outer wall surface of the inner sleeve secured to the latter, the stripped end of said one conductor being inserted into the inner sleeve, the stripped ends of both conductors being of a length such that stripped portions of both conductors protrude from the inner sleeve and extend into the outer sleeve, said protruding stripped conductor portions being helically twisted together, thereby conductively joining the two conductors.

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US4369707A (en) * 1978-07-12 1983-01-25 Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft Short circuit fuse for electrical igniters
US4445435A (en) * 1980-05-05 1984-05-01 Atlas Powder Company Electronic delay blasting circuit
US4685757A (en) * 1986-04-18 1987-08-11 Elliott Jon S Electrical wire connector and connection method
US4904196A (en) * 1987-07-17 1990-02-27 Yazaki Corporation Releasable connector for electric circuits
EP0661774A1 (de) * 1993-12-04 1995-07-05 Beiersdorf Aktiengesellschaft Selbstklebendes Isolationsetikett
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US2160313A (en) * 1936-03-12 1939-05-30 Norres Wilhelm Wire joint, especially for electrical shot-firing outfits or similar provisional electrical circuits
US2130825A (en) * 1936-04-18 1938-09-20 Thomas & Betts Corp Wire connecter
US2788384A (en) * 1950-06-24 1957-04-09 William F Swingle Connectors for electrical circuit wires
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US4107453A (en) * 1975-09-02 1978-08-15 Nitro Nobel Wires and two-part electrical coupling cover
US4283596A (en) * 1978-05-09 1981-08-11 Raychem Pontoise S.A. Connector and connection method
US4369707A (en) * 1978-07-12 1983-01-25 Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft Short circuit fuse for electrical igniters
US4445435A (en) * 1980-05-05 1984-05-01 Atlas Powder Company Electronic delay blasting circuit
US4685757A (en) * 1986-04-18 1987-08-11 Elliott Jon S Electrical wire connector and connection method
US4904196A (en) * 1987-07-17 1990-02-27 Yazaki Corporation Releasable connector for electric circuits
EP0661774A1 (de) * 1993-12-04 1995-07-05 Beiersdorf Aktiengesellschaft Selbstklebendes Isolationsetikett
US20060086278A1 (en) * 2002-08-01 2006-04-27 Thierry Bernard Pyrotechinical firing installation

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NO134236B (enrdf_load_stackoverflow) 1976-05-24
AT333873B (de) 1976-12-10
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DE2320854A1 (de) 1973-11-29
NO134236C (enrdf_load_stackoverflow) 1976-09-01
SE391072B (sv) 1977-01-31
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DE2320854C2 (de) 1982-11-04
GB1430018A (en) 1976-03-31
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CS171281B2 (enrdf_load_stackoverflow) 1976-10-29

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