US PATENT SUBCLASS 439 / 736
.~.~ Secured by heat-molding or cold-deforming insulation or by casting, welding, or cementing

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439 /   HD   ELECTRICAL CONNECTORS

625  DF  WITH INSULATION OTHER THAN CONDUCTOR SHEATH {10}
733.1  DF  .~ Metallic connector or contact secured to insulation {10}
736.~.~ Secured by heat-molding or cold-deforming insulation or by casting, welding, or cementing

DEFINITION

Classification: 439/736

Secured by heat-molding or cold-deforming insulation or by casting, welding, or cementing:

(under subclass 733.1) Electrical connector wherein the metallic terminal, contact, conductor-securing means, or other metallic connector (hereinafter referred to as metallic connector part) is attached or fastened to the insulating body (a) by applying either heat or pressure to previously unformed insulating material or to a portion of a previously formed insulating body to thereby plastically form or plastically deform the insulation about or onto a portion of the metallic connector part, (b) by applying heat to the metallic connector part until it is softened or molten and then pressing, shaping, or pouring it onto or into the

insulation body, (c) by applying heat to one or both the previously formed and previously engaged metallic connector part and insulating body so that they are fused to one another, or (d) applying glue or other adhesive cementlike material between the insulating body and the metallic connector part.

(1) Note. Excluded from this subclass are those devices in which a metallic terminal or contact is secured to the insulating body by the terminal or contact having serrated, pointed, roughened, or toothlike part which bites or penetrates into the insulation. Such devices, even though the insulation might be considered to be plastically deformed at the securing region by the penetration thereinto of a serrated or toothlike part of a terminal or contact, are found in subclasses 387+.

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387+, for a metallic terminal or contact secured to an insulating body by the terminal or contact having a roughened, serrated, pointed, or toothlike part which bites into the insulation, and see (1) Note above.

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174, Electricity: Conductors and Insulators,

189, and 196 for a molded joint between a line insulator and an insulator terminal element. 264, Plastic and Nonmetallic Article Shaping or Treating: Processes, for a process for molding plastic insulating material and see especially

272.11+, for a process for securing a contact or connector to insulation by molding.

403, Joints and Connections,

265+, for a molded joint in general.

425, Plastic Article or Earthenware Shaping or Treating: Apparatus, for an apparatus for molding plastic insulating material.