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Methods and means are provided for detachably interconnecting electrical components in an electrical system located and used in a disadvantageous environment. An improved connector device is provided which is composed of spaced-apart metallic terminals embedded in a substantially rectangular body me

Methods and means are provided for detachably interconnecting electrical components in an electrical system located and used in a disadvantageous environment. An improved connector device is provided which is composed of spaced-apart metallic terminals embedded in a substantially rectangular body member and adapted to be electrically joined with leads in a cable or the like. One pin-end portion of each terminal is located in a sidewall recess in the body member, and the other socket-like end portion of the terminal projects into and through a plug-like extension from the body member opposite the sidewall recess containing the pin-like end portion. Two or more such connectors may be stacked together in a fluid-tight manner, by inserting the plug-like projections from the block of one connector into the sidewall recesses in the block portion of another connector, whereby the socket-like ends of the terminals in the first connector receive the pin-like ends of the terminals in the other block member, and also whereby any water or other electrically conductive fluid on the connections will be prevented from creating an electrically conductive path between the terminals therein.

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An improved junction assembly for detachably interconnecting a plurality of electrical components to a seismic exploration network or other electrical system located in a deleterious environment, comprising a first substantially rectangular body member formed of a water-impervious insulating materia

An improved junction assembly for detachably interconnecting a plurality of electrical components to a seismic exploration network or other electrical system located in a deleterious environment, comprising a first substantially rectangular body member formed of a water-impervious insulating material with a plurality of sidewall recesses, a correspondingly plurality of plug-like extensions projecting oppositely of said recesses, a first strap-like portion carrying a corresponding plurality of cap-like projections, and a second strap-like portion carrying a corresponding plurality of plug-like extensions, a first plurality of electrical terminal members fixedly disposed in said first body member for interconnection with one of said components and each with a pin-like end portion projecting into one of said recesses and a socket-like opposite end portion extending into one of said plug-like extensions, a second substantially rectangular body member formed of a water-impervious insulating material with a plurality of sidewall recesses, a corresponding plurality of plug-like extensions projecting oppositely of said recesses, a third strap-like portion carrying a corresponding plurality of cap-like projections, and a fourth strap-like portion carrying a corresponding plurality of plug-like extensions, and a second plurality of electrical terminal members fixedly disposed in said second body member for interconnection with another different one of said components and each with a pin-like end portion projecting into one of said recesses and a socket-like opposite end portion extending into one of said plug-like extensions, said second body member being positioned abuttably against said first body member with said plug-like extensions projecting from said second body member inserted into corresponding sidewall recesses in said first body member and with the pin-like end portions of the terminals in the sidewall recesses in said first body member being inserted into the socket-like end portions of the terminals in corresponding ones of said plug-like extensions projecting from said second body member.