Electrical connectors

Claim 1

An electrical double adaptor comprising: a housing of electrically insulating material having a first part defining a plug portion and a second part defining a pair of socket portions, a generally L-shaped carrier member of electrically insulating material mounted in the housing to extend into the first and second parts and comprising an arm which partly defines the plug portion, and an arm which partly defines the socket portions, and having opposed sets of grooves on the respective arms, and a plurality of generally U-shaped unitary wire members, each of which comprises opposed limb portions, an adjacently disposed pair of free end portions and an intermediate portion, the intermediate portions of said unitary wire members defining electrical contacts on the plug portion, said end portions defining a plurality of corresponding electrical contacts in each socket portion, and the said unitary wire members defining electrical conductors joining respective contacts on the plug portion and in each socket portion, and wherein said unitary wire members are mounted on said carrier member with the opposed limb portions embracing the arms of the carrier member and disposed in said grooves whereby said unitary wire members are maintained in spaced relationship and with the opposite end portions disposed mutually adjacent and overhanging the carrier member to form resiliently displaceable contacts, and with the intermediate portions of the unitary wire members surrounding and supported by one of said arms.