Conductor termination

Claim 1

IN COMBINATION, A METALLIC CASING ADAPTED TO BE CONNECTED TO GROUND, AN INSULATING BUSHING MEMBER EXTENDING THROUGH A WALL OF SAID CASING, A CONDUCTIVE MEMBER EXTENDING AXIALLY THROUGH SAID BUSHING MEMBER AND HAVING A FIRST CONNECTOR PORTION AT THE END THEREOF EXTERIOR OF SAID CASING AND BEING ADAPTED TO BE CONNECTED TO HIGH VOLTAGE ELECTRICAL APPARATUS INTERIOR OF SAID CASING, TERMINATING MEANS COMPRISING AN OUTER HOLLOW CONDUCTIVE BODY MEMBER, AN INNER CONDUCTIVE MEMBER DISPOSED WITHIN AND RADIALLY SPACED INWARDLY FROM SAID OUTER MEMBER AND HAVING A SECOND CONNECTOR PORTION AT ONE END COMPLEMENTARY TO AND NORMALLY RELEASABLY ENGAGING SAID FIRST CONNECTOR PORTION, TUBULAR INSULATING MEANS DISPOSED BETWEEN SAID INNER AND OUTER MEMBERS, SAID INSULATING BUSHING MEMBER AND SAID TUBULAR INSULATING MEANS HAVING COMPLEMENTARY FRUSTOCONICAL SURFACES DEFINING A LONG CREEPAGE PATH BETWEEN SAID OUTER CONDUCTIVE MEMBER AND SAID NORMALLY ENGAGED CONNECTOR PORTIONS, ONE OF SAID FRUSTOCONICAL SURFACES BEING OF A RESILIENT MATERIAL, AND RELEASABLE MEANS FOR URGING SAID TERMINATING MEANS AGAINST SAID INSULATING BUSHING MEMBER, WHEREBY SAID COMPLEMENTARY FRUSTOCONICAL SURFACES ARE COMPRESSED TOGETHER AND CONFORM CLOSELY TO EACH OTHER AND LOW DIELECTRIC STRENGTH AIR OCCLUSIONS ARE PREVENTED ALONG SAID CREEPAGE PATH, SAID RELEASABLE MEANS ELECTRICALLY CONNECTING SAID OUTER MEMBER TO SAID CASING, THE WIDEST PART OF EACH OF SAID FRUSTOCONICAL SURFACES BEING IN SUBSTANTIAL REGISTRY WITH THE OUTER SURFACE OF SAID TUBULAR INSULATING MEANS WHEN SAID CONNECTOR PORTIONS ARE NORMALLY ENGAGED AND THE NARROWEST PART OF SAID SURFACES BEING PROXIMATE TO THE SURFACE OF SAID INNER CONDUCTIVE MEMBER, THE CONTINUOUS RADIAL THICKNESS OF INSULATION AT THE AXIAL TRANSITION BETWEEN SAID CONDUCTIVE MEMBERS AND AT THE WIDEST PART OF SAID SURFACES BEING SUBSTANTIALLY EQUAL TO THE RADIAL THICKNESS OF SAID TUBULAR INSULATING MEANS.