Connector for conductors

Claim 1

A CONNECTOR FOR ABUTTING CONNECTION OF THE BARED PORTIONS OF A PAIR OF FLEXIBLE TAPE CONDUCTORS COMPRISING A PAIR OF PLATES HAVING CONTINUOUS AND UNINTERRUPTED PLANAR AXIAL FACES, MEANS FOR SECURING SAID FLEXIBLE TAPE CONDUCTORS TO SAID PLATES IN OVERLYING RELATION TO AND ALONG THE PLANAR AXIAL FACES OF THE PLATES, C-SHAPED CLIPS ON SAID PLATES AT THE OUTER ENDS THEREOF AND DEPENDING FROM SAID PLANAR FACES OF SAID PLATES, FLANGES EXTENDING MARGINALLY FROM SAID PLANAR FACES OF SAID PLATES INTERMEDIATE THE CLIPS AND THE INNER ENDS OF THE PLATES, SAID FLANGES TERMINATING AT A POINT SPACED OUTWARDLY OF SAID INNER ENDS, THE FLANGES OF ONE PLATE BEING ADAPTED TO BE SLIDABLY RECEIVED IN THE CLIPS OF THE OTHER PLATE, AN EXTENSION DISPOSED UPWARDLY OF THE SURFACE OF EACH OF SAID PLATES OPPOSITE SAID PLANAR FACES, SAID EXTENSIONS HAVING MARGINAL EDGES PARALLEL TO AND SPACED INWARDLY OF THE OUTER EDGES OF SAID FLANGES, THE MARGINAL EDGES OF SAID EXTENSIONS BEING SPACED APART A DISTANCE SUBSTANTIALLY EQUAL TO THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE ENDS OF THE C-SHAPED CLIPS, SAID CONNECTOR BEING SO PROPORTIONED THAT WHEN