Switch contact

• US 3,268,851 A
• Filed: 03/05/1964
• Issued: 08/23/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 03/05/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Lloyd Mancini
• Original Assignee: Lloyd Mancini
• Inventors: Mancini, Lloyd
• Application Number:
  US04/349,673
• Time in Patent Office: 901 Days
• US Class Current: 439/857
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/718 Contact members provided on the PCB without an insulating housing contacts for abutting H01R12/714
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49915 Overedge assembling of seated part
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49929 Joined to rod

Claims

3. A SWITCH CONTACT TERMINAL ADAPTED TO BE MOUNTED IN A HOLE IN A CIRCUIT BOARD, SAID TERMINAL INCLUDING A TUBULAR SUPPORTING PLUG ON ONE END FOR INSERTION IN SUCH HOLE AND INTEGRAL CONTACT AT THE OTHER END, SAID PLUG COMPRISING A ROLLER UP SHEET METAL BLANK FORMING A TUBULAR PORTION, SAID PLUG WHEN POSITIONED IN THE CIRCIUT BOARD HOLE BEING ADAPTED TO FORM A PART OF A SOLDER SYSTEM WHICH INCLUDES A CIRCUIT ELEMENT ON SAID BOARD, AND A CORE OF HEAT RESISTANT MATERIAL TIGHTLY FITTED IN SAID HOLLOW TUBULAR PORTION SO AS TO PREVENT WICKING OF THE SOLDER THROUGH SAID TUBULAR PORTION WHEN IT AN THE BOARD ARE SOLDER-DIPPED, SAID HOLLOW TUBULAR PORTION TERMINATING AT ITS LEAD END IN A FRUSTO-CONICAL PORTION AND HAVING AN INWARDLY EXTENDING TAB AT ITS OTHER END, SAID CORE BEING CONFINED WITH SAID PLUG BETWEEN SAID FRUSTOCONICAL PORTION AND SAID TAB.