Electrical connector block

Claim 1

AN ELECTRIC TERMINAL CONNECTION DEVICE COMPRISING A FRAMEWORK, A PLURALITY OF BLOCKS SLIDABLY ARRANGED IN A LINEAR ARRAY IN SAID FRAMEWORK AND SECURED BY SAID FRAME WORK AGAINST MOTION OTHER THAN IN THE LENGTHWISE DIRECTION OF SAID ARRAY, SAID BLOCKS BEING APERTURED IN THE DIRECTION OF SAID ARRAY TO DEFINE A COMMON LENGHTWISE PASSAGEWAY THERETHROUGH, AND THE ADJACENT SURFACES OF SAID BLOCKS BEING FORMED WITH COOPERATING CAM FORMATIONS EXTENDING IN THE GENERAL DIRECTION OF SAID ARRAY, EACH OF SAID BLOCKS HAVING AT LEST ONE OUTWARDLY OPENING TRANSVERSE PASSAGEWAY COMMUNICATING WITH ITS RESPECTIVE APERTURE TO RECEIVE WIRE-ENDS THEREIN; A PLURALITY OF JAW ELEMENTS FITTED WITHIN THE APERTURES OF SAID BLOCKS AND SHAPED FOR SLIDING NON-ROTARY MOTION IN THE LENGTHWISE DIRECTION OF SAID LENGTHWISE PASAGEWAY, SAID JAW ELEMENTS BEING DIMENSIONED TO SPAN THE SPACES BETWEEN ADJACENT BLOCKS AND SUBSTANTIALLY FILLING SAID LENGTHWISE PASSAGEWAY; A PLURALITY OF FLAT CAM-OPERATING DEVICES INTERPOSED RESPECTIVELY BETWEEN ADJACENT PAIRS OF SAID BLOCKS AND BEING CONNECTED WITH SAID JAW ELEMENTS AND OPERABLE TO SEPARATE, THROUGH CAM ACTION, ANY SELECTED PAIR OF SUCH BLOCKS AND CONCURRENTLY TO WITHDRAW THE CORRESPONDING JAW ELEMENT PARTLY OUT OF THE APERTURE IN ONE BLOCK OF SAID PAIR, TO PERMIT INSERTION OF A WIRE-END IN THE CORRESPONDING TRANSVERSE PASSAGEWAY THEREOF AND INTO SAID LENGTHWISE PASSAGEWAY IN THE PATH OF SAID PARTLY WITHDRAWN JAW ELEMENT; AND MEANS FOR RESILIENTLY URGING THE FIRST AND LAST OF SAID JAW ELEMENTS TOWARDS ONE ANOTHER TO MAINTAIN ALL OF SAID JAW ELEMENTS IN A TIGHTLY COMPRESSED LINEAR ARRAY SUBJECT TO THE SEPARATING ACTION OF SAID CAM-OPERATING DEVICES.