摘要 |
A self-centering line connector for insulated window spacer frame tubing. There is an elongate connector body having first and second ends. First and second ramps extend upwardly from the connector body towards a mid-point of the connector body. The base ends of the ramp portions are yieldingly mounted to the connector body, and the free ends have perpendicularly extending stop surfaces. Either end of the connector can be inserted into the open end of a section of spacer frame tubing. As this is done, the first ramp portion is depressed by the web of the tubing so as to permit the tubing to pass thereover until insertion is arrested by the end of the tubing coming up against the stop surface of the second ramp member, at approximately the mid-point of the connector body. The other end of the connector is then inserted into a second section of tubing, which depresses the second ramp member so that the end of the second section of tubing can be pressed into abutment with the end of the first, with the connector body being located centrally between the two sections of tubing. |