Internal combustion engine ignition distributor cap

Claim 1

An internal combustion engine ignition distributor cap comprising: a top portion, a plurality of output terminal towers, each having an axial bore, extending outwardly from and circumferentially arranged about the outer surface of said top portion and a peripheral wall portion molded into an integral unit of an electrically nonconductive material, the inner surfaces of said top portion and said peripheral wall portion defining a space within said cap; an elongated unitary insert member of an electrically conductive material having a rectangular cross-section throughout the length thereof and a flat face surface on at least one end thereof inserted into said axial bore of each of said prior molded output terminal towers with the said end thereof having said flat face surface extending into said space within said cap and the opposite end extending beyond the top of said output terminal tower; positioning means corresponding to each of said insert members for locating the corresponding said insert member within the said output terminal tower axial bore into which it is inserted in such a manner that one of said flat face surfaces thereof extending into said space within said cap is substantially tangential to the imaginary circle centered about the center of the inner surface of said top portion and having a radius equal to the distance between said center and the point of tangency of said flat face surfaces of said insert members; and an output terminal of an electrically conductive material electrically connected to the end of each of said insert members opposite the end thereof located within said space within said cap.