Multi-tap plug

• US 3,281,747 A
• Filed: 02/25/1963
• Issued: 10/25/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 02/25/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Amos O. Winsand
• Original Assignee: Amos O. Winsand
• Inventors: Winsand, Amos O.
• Application Number:
  US04/260,621
• Time in Patent Office: 1,338 Days
• US Class Current: 336/137
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 27/40 Structural association with built-in electric component, e.g. fuse
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 29/00 Coupling parts for selective co-operation with a counterpart in different ways to establish different circuits, e.g. for voltage selection, for series-parallel selection, programmable connectors

Claims

1. A TRANSFORMER INCLUDING A PRIMARY AND A SECONDARY, A PLURALITY OF TAPS CONNECTED AT SPACED POINTS TO SAID PRIMARY, SAID TAPS RESPECTIVELY HAVING SPACED TAP TERMINALS INSULATED FROM ONE ANOTHER, A PRIMARY DISCONNECT PLUG HAVING A PAIR OF SPACED PLUG TERMINALS AND HAVING LEADS FROM A VOLTAGE SOURCE CONNECTED TO SAID PLUG TERMINALS, A FIRST PAIR OF SAID TAP TERMINALS BEING SPACED APART THE SAME DISTANCE AS SAID PLUG TERMINALS AND A SECOND PAIR OF SAID TAP TERMINALS BEING SPACED APART THE SAME DISTANCE AS SAID PLUG TERMINALS, NEITHER TERMINAL OF SAID FIRST PAIR BEING A TERMINAL OF SAID SECOND PAIR, SAID PLUG BEING CONNECTED TO SAID PRIMARY BY HAVING SAID PLUG TERMINALS SIMULTANEOUSLY IN REMOVABLE CONTACT WITH THE TAP TERMINALS OF THE FIRST PAIR, SAID PLUG TERMINALS ALSO BEING ADAPTED TO BE REMOVED FROM CONTACT WITH SAID TAP