Compression tap

Claim 1

A COMPRESSION CONNECTOR COMPRISING A BODY OF COMPRESSIBLE MATERIAL FORMED IN GENERALLY H SHAPED CROSS SECTION, SAID BODY INCLUDING A PAIR OF PARALLEL SIDE WALLS AND AN INTERMEDIATE INTERCONNECTING WEB PORTION DEFINING AT LEAST ONE OUTWARDLY OPENING RECESS, A RECESS CLOSING TAB ON ONE OF SAID SIDE WALLS MOVABLE BETWEEN NORMALLY OPEN RECESS AND CLOSED RECESS DEFINING POSITIONS EXTENDING BEYOND THE OTHER OF SAID SIDE WALLS, HINGE MEANS INTERCONNECTING SAID TAB AND SAID SIDE WALL FROM WHICH IT EXTENDS IN SUBSTANTIALLY ALIGNED RELATION WITH THE END OF THE OTHER SIDE WALL, SAID TAB INCLUDING A GENERALLY ARCUATE INNER SURFACE, A SUBSTANTIALLY ARCUATE OUTER SURFACE AND AT LEAST ONE ANGULARLY RELATED SIDE WALL INTERCONNECTING SAID INNER AND OUTER SURFACES, AND TAB BEING PROPORTIONED TO EXTEND SUBSTANTIALLY ACROSS THE SPACING BETWEEN THE SIDE WALLS PRIOR TO COMPRESSION AND TO CONFORM TO THE SPACING BETWEEN THE SIDE WALLS AFTER COMPRESSION, WHEREBY WHEN SAID TAB IS FOLDED FROM SAID NORMALLY OPEN POSITION TO SAID CLOSED POSITION WITHIN THE OPPOSITE SIDE WALL AND COMPRESSED, TO THUS CLOSE SAID RECESS DEFINED BY SAID WEB AND SAID SIDE WALLS, SAID SIDE WALLS AND SAID TAB BEING OF SUBSTANTIALLY EQUAL AND UNIFROM THICKNESS THROUGHOUT PRIOR TO COMPRESSION.