Dashboard subassembly

• US 3,174,576 A
• Filed: 07/08/1960
• Issued: 03/23/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 07/08/1960
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Robert C. Woofter, William C. Luscombe
• Original Assignee: Robert C. Woofter, William C. Luscombe
• Inventors: Woofter, Robert C., Luscombe, William C.
• Application Number:
  US04/041,677
• Time in Patent Office: 1,719 Days
• US Class Current: 180/90
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/60 Instruments characterised by their location or relative disposition in or on vehicles arrangements of lighting devices on dashboards B60Q3/10
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 3/14 lighting through the surface to be illuminated
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/04 Pins or blades for co-operation with sockets
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/432 by stamped-out resilient tongue snapping behind shoulder in base or case
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/62 Means for facilitating engagement or disengagement of coupling parts or for holding them in engagement
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/64 Means for preventing incorrect coupling

Claims

1. FOR A VEHICLE HAVING ELECTRICAL WIRING MEANS SUCH AS INSULATED CONDUCTORS, GROUPED WIRES AS A HARNESS AND THE LIKE AS WELL AS A DASHBOARD MEANS TO CARRY INSTRUMENTATION, ACCESSORIES, AND THE LIKE, AND ILLUMINATING-CLUSTER SUBASSEMBLY PER SE, COMPRISING, A BODY PORTION OF MOLDABLE INSULATING MATERIAL HAVING A PREDETERMINED CONFIGURATION ADAPTED TO FIT TO ONE SIDE OF THE DASHBOARD MEANS THOUGH DEFINITELY SEPARABLE THEREFROM, A CHANNEL PORTION RECESSED TO COMPLEMENT AND RECEIVE THE WIRING MEANS AND EXTENDING INTEGRALLY TO ONE SIDE OF SAID BODY PORTION TO BE REMOVABLE SIMULTANEOUSLY THEREWITH, A PLURALITY OF LAMP SOCKET MEANS ALSO COMPLETELY INTEGRAL WITH RATHER THAN SEPARABLE FROM SAID BODY PORTION OF INSULATING MATERIAL COMBINED WITH EACH OTHER AND HAVING PREDETERMINED POSITIONING OF SAID PLURALITY OF LAMP SOCKET MEANS DIRECTLY ESTABLISHING INTEGRALLY ENTIRELY ONLY BY SAID BODY PORTION, CONDUCTING TERMINALS MEANS PROVIDED IN EACH OF SAID LAMP SOCKET MEANS FOR MOUNTING AND INTERCONNECTION BETWEEN ENERGIZABLE ILLUMINATORS SUCH AS LIGHT-BULBS AND TERMINATION FROM THE WIRING MEANS DIRECTLY ON SAID BODY PORTION ALWAYS TOGETHER AS ACCESSIBLE BOTH AFTER AND PRIOR TO ATTACHMENT OF SAID BODY PORTION TO THE DASHBOARD MEANS OF THE VEHICLE, AND FASTENING MEANS ALSO OF INSULATING MATERIAL THAT PROJECTS INTEGRALLY FROM SAID COMBINED LAMP SOCKET MEANS AND BODY PORTION TO MAINTAIN ATTACHMENT OF SAID BODY PORTION AS A PRE-WIRED PLURAL-LAMP UNIT SEPARABLE FOR LIGHT BULB SERVICING OF ANY AND ALL SAID LAMP SOCKET MEANS IN COMMON THEREWITH DIRECTLY ON ONE SIDE OF THE DASHBOARD MEANS LATERALLY THEREOF.