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A TERMINAL FOR ELECTRICAL CONNECTIONS COMPRISING A PAIR OF U-SHAPED TERMINAL MEMBERS INTEGRAL WITH ONE ANOTHER IN END-TO-END RELATION, ONE OF SAID U-SHAPED MEMBERS CONSTITUTING A POST ADAPTED PRIMARILY FOR INSERTION INTO A CIRCUIT BOARD APERTURE AND THE OTHER OF SAID USHAPED MEMBERS BEING ADAPTED PRIMARILY TO RECEIVE ELECTRICAL CONNECTIONS, SAID TERMINAL DEFINING PROJECTING MEANS EXTENDING OUTWARDLY FROM THE SIDES OF SAID USHAPED TERMINAL MEMBERS AT THE JUNCTION OF SAID PAIR OF MEMBERS TO DEFINE A SEAT FOR SAID TERMINAL AGAINST ONE FACE OF A CIRCUIT BOARD WHEN SAID POST IS INSERTED INTO SAID BOARD APERTURE, A CONDUCTIVE WASHER DISPOSED IN SURROUNDING SLIDABLE RELATION TO SAID OTHER U-SHAPED MEMBER, THE FREE END OF SAID OTHER U-SHAPED MEMBER DEFINING RESTRAINING MEANS ADAPTED TO OVERLIE A SURFACE OF SAID WASHER REMOTE FROM SAID PROJECTING MEANS, SPRING MEANS EXTENDING BETWEEN SAID CONDUCTIVE WAHSER AND SAID PROJECTING MEANS THEREBY TO URGE SAID WAHSER NORMALLY INTO ENGAGEMENT WITH SAID RESTRAINING MEANS, AN APERTURE IN ONE SIDE OF SAID OTHER U-SHAPED MEMBER EXTENDING FROM A POSITION ADJACENT SAID PROJECTING MEANS TO A POSITION ADJACENT SAID RESTRAINING MEANS, SAID SPRING MEANS NORMALLY COVERING SAID APERTURE, AND FINGER GRIP MEANS EXTENDING OUTWARDLY FROM SAID WASHER ADAPTED TO PERMIT SAID WASHER TO BE MANUALLY URGED AWAY FROM SAID RESTRAINING MEANS TOWARD SAID PROJECTING MEANS AGAINST THE FORCE OF SAID SPRING MEANS THEREBY TO EXPOSE A PORTION OF SAID APERTURE FOR RECEPTION OF ELECTRICAL CONNECTIONS.