Holding device for testing connections

Claim 1

A TERMINAL HOLDING DEVICE ADAPTED FOR TESTING WIRE CONNECTIONS TO TERMINALS, COMPRISING A SUPPORT, A ROTATABLE MANDREL HAVING A LONGITUDINAL AXIS JOURNALED IN THE SUP PORT, SAID MANDREL INCLUDING LONGITUDINALLY EXTENDING GUIDE MEANS ROTATABLE WITH THE MANDREL, AN ASSEMBLY OF LONGITUDINALLY ALIGNED BLOCKS MOUNTED ON SAID GUIDE MEANS AND ROTATBLE THEREWITH AND BEING FREELY SLIDEABLE ALONG THE GUIDE MEANS, RESILIENT MEANS MOUNTED BETWEEN AND ENGAGING EACH PAIR OF ADJACENT BLOCKS AND URGING THEM APART IN THE ABSENCE OF A CLAMPING FORCE TO FORM PLURAL RECEIVING SPACES BETWEEN THE BLOCKS EACH OF RECEIVING A TEST TERMINAL, MEANS FOR URGING THE BLOCKS IN A LONGITUDINAL DIRECTION TOWARDS ONE ANOTHER TO CLAMP THE TEST TERMINALS THEREBETWEEN, MEANS FOR RELEASING THE BLOCKS TO ALLOW REMOVAL OF THE TEST TERMINALS, MEANS FOR ROTATING THE MANDREL AND THUS THE ASSEMBLY OF BLOCKS ABOUT THE LONGITUDINAL AXIS, AND MEANS FOR LOCKING THE MANDREL AGAINST ROTATION.