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Claim 1

AN EYELET FOR USE IN ESTABLISHING EITHER A MECHANICAL, OR A SOLDERED CONNECTION, OR BOTH, WITH AN ELECTRICAL ELEMENT LOCARTED ON ONE FACE OF A SHEET OF MATERIAL ADJACENT AN OPENING IN THE SHEET, SAID EYELET BEING FORMED OF RESILIENT METAL AND HAVING A TUBULAR BODY DEISGNED TO BE PASSED THROUGH SICH AN OPENING IN A SHEET OF MATERIAL, ONE END OF SAID TUBULAR BODY BEING PROVIDED WITH A HEAD EMBODYING A PLURALITY OF SEGMENTS WHICH EXTEND OUTWARDLY FROM SAID END OF THE BODY SO AS TO PROJECT OVER AN ELEMENT LOCATED ADJACENT THE BODY OF THE EYELET, EACH OF SAID SEGMENTS HAVING RADIALLY EXTENDING EDGES AT OPPOSITE SIDES THEREOF WHICH ARE INCLINED AT DIFFERENT ANGLES WITH RESPECT TO THE AXIS OF THE BODY OF THE EYELET, ONE OF SAID SIDE EDGES OF EACH SEGMENT CURVING UPWARDLY, OUTWARDLY AND DOWNWARDLY AWAY FROM SAID BODY SO THAT THE OUTER EXTREMITY OF ONE SIDE OF THE SEGMENT IS INCLINED AT AN ANGLE OF MORE THAN 90* WITH RESPECT TO SAID AXIS AND SERVES TO PROVIDE A CORNER PORTION WHICH WILL PROJECT TOWARD AN ELECTICAL ELEMENT LOCATED ADJACENT THE BODY OF THE EYELET FOR ESTABLISHING A MECHANICAL CONNCTION THEREWITH, THE OPPOSITE SIDE EDGE OF EACH OF SAID SEGMENTS BEING INCLINED AT AN ANGLE OF LESS THAN 90* WITH RESPDCT TO SAID AXIS WHEREBY THE OUTER PERIPHERAL EDGE OF EACH SEGMENT WILL BE CIRCUMFERENTIALLY INCLIND TO FACILITATE THE FLOW OF SOLDER BENEATH THE SEGMENT AND INTO CONTACT WITH THE LOWER SURFACE OF SAID SEGMENT AND WITH THE UPPER SURFACE OF AN ELEMENT LOCATED ADJACENT SAID BODY.