Electrical termination system and connector member

Abstract From the Canadian patent

An electrical connector socket e.g. for a tele-, phone line jack, has an insulative body a cover plate, and contact members. Each contact member has an insulation displacement (ID) contact at one end and a flexible contact for contacting the plug at the other. The contact member is of strip form, and is bent near the ID contact to be accommodated in a recess in a wall section of the body. The contact member is also bent around the front edge of the wall section and is thus secured on the wall section by its own resilience. The cover plate is used to push the conductors onto the ID contacts. A ribbon cable can be placed onto the slightly grooved but essentially flat upper effective surface …