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Abstract

A one-piece insulation displacing terminal having a first portion, a second portion, and a connecting portion connecting the first and second portions. The connecting portion is torsional in order to permit the first portion to rotate relative to the second portion. In one embodiment, the first portion has adjacent first and second walls which are arcuately shaped and which have wire receiving openings therein. The wire receiving openings have associated wire receiving slots. The second portion is mounted in an insulating housing of a connector assembly on a post having a post opening therethrough which has a conical reducer for permitting only wires of predetermined gauge to pass therethrough. After the second portion is secured to a base of the insulating housing, a wall portion of a cap may be slidable mounted between the first and second walls of the first portion. The wall portion has an opening therein to permit a wire to pass between wire receiving openings in the first and second walls. An insulated wire can be inserted through an opening in the insulating housing into the wire receiving openings. The cap can then be turned to cause the first portion to rotate relative to the second portion which in turn causes the insulated wire to become terminated in the wire receiving slots.

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