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An adapter (11) for connecting each of two telephone cords (12) to a wall terminal (14) includes a housing (16) having two stacked cavities (54-54′) at one end, with each cavity being capable of receiving a modular plug (13) that terminates one of the cords and each communicating with a plug portion

An adapter (11) for connecting each of two telephone cords (12) to a wall terminal (14) includes a housing (16) having two stacked cavities (54-54′) at one end, with each cavity being capable of receiving a modular plug (13) that terminates one of the cords and each communicating with a plug portion (17) that extends from an opposite end of the housing and that is insertable into the wall terminal. The adapter includes a plurality of wire-like contact elements (20) with each having a retroflexed portion for electrically engaging a contact (34) of the wall terminal when the plug portion is inserted thereinto, and each having free ends that extend into the cavities at the one end of the housing to engage blade-like terminals (21) of the modular plugs which are inserted into the cavities.

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An adapter for connecting electrically terminals in each of a plurality of modular plugs to external components in a jack, said adapter comprising: a dielectric housing having a jack portion at one end and a plug portion at an opposite end, said jack portion including a plurality of superimposed, ex

An adapter for connecting electrically terminals in each of a plurality of modular plugs to external components in a jack, said adapter comprising: a dielectric housing having a jack portion at one end and a plug portion at an opposite end, said jack portion including a plurality of superimposed, externally communicating cavities each of which is adapted to receive a modular plug that includes a plurality of spaced parallel terminals, each of said cavities including a plurality of wire-receiving channels with each channel in one of the cavities being associated and aligned with a channel in the other cavity, said plug portion adapted to be received in a jack and including a plurality of spaced wire-receiving channels each of which has an externally communicating portion and each of which is associated with and communicates with aligned wire-receiving channels in said cavities, said housing including a plurality of dielectrically isolated, superimposed passageways which communicate said channels of said plug with associated ones of said wire-receiving channels in each said cavity of said jack portion; and a wire-like, substantially uniplanar contact element mounted in each of said channels of said plug portion with a portion thereof being exposed in said externally communicating portion of each said channel in said plug portion to facilitate engagement with an external component in said jack when said plug portion is received in the jack, and having a retroflexed configuration with one free end portion of each contact element extending along an associated passageway of said housing into the associated channel in one of said cavities in said jack portion and the other free end extending along an aligned superimposed passageway into the associated, aligned channel in the other one of said superimposed cavities, said free end portions being exposed within said cavities and adapted to be engaged by said plug terminals when said plugs are received in said cavities, said portions of said contact element which extend along said passageways being separated and dielectrically isolated from each other.