Slidable terminal contactor

• US 3,289,044 A
• Filed: 04/21/1965
• Issued: 11/29/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 04/21/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Julius A. Ginsberg
• Original Assignee: Julius A. Ginsberg
• Inventors: Ginsberg, Julius A.
• Application Number:
  US04/449,813
• Time in Patent Office: 587 Days
• US Class Current: 361/727
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/66 with pins, blades or analogous contacts and secured to apparatus or structure, e.g. to a wall
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/76 with sockets, clips or analogous contacts and secured to apparatus or structure, e.g. to a wall
• CPC Class Codes: H02B 1/36 with withdrawable units
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 7/1421 Drawers for printed circuit boards
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 7/1452 Mounting of connectors; Switching; Reinforcing of back panels

Claims

1. FOR USE WITH AN ELECTRICAL COMPONENT CHASSIS REMOVABLY MOUNTABLE IN A CHASSIS RACK, THE ELECTRICAL COMPONENT CHASSIS INCLUDING A BASE PORTION, A TERMINAL CONTACTOR COMPRISING:

A FIRST ELONGATED CHANNEL-LIKE SLIDE MEMBER INCLUDING A BASE PORTION FIXED TO THE BASE PORTION OF THE ELECTRICAL COMPONENT CHASSIS AND ARM PORTIONS INTEGRALLY EXTENDING FROM THE BASE PORTION THEREOF DOWNWARDLY FROM THE BASE PORTION OF SAID ELECTRICAL COMPONENT CHASSIS;

A SECOND ELONGATED CHANNEL-LIKE SLIDE MEMBER INCLUDING A BASE PORTION FIXED TO THE CHASSIS RACK AND ARM PORTIONS INTEGRALLY EXTENDING FROM THE BASE PORTION THEREOF UPWARDLY FROM THE CHASSIS RACK;

SAID SLIDE MEMBERS BEING DISPOSED IN OPPOSED RELATIONSHIP SO THAT THE ARM PORTIONS OF ONE OF SAID SLIDE MEMBERS SLIDE OVER THE BASE PORTION OF THE OTHER OF SAID SLIDE MEMBERS AND THE ARM PORTIONS OF SAID FIRST SLIDE MEMBER SLIDINGLY CONTACT THE ARM PORTIONS OF SAID SECOND SLIDE MEMBER TO CONSTRAIN SAID SLIDE MEMBERS TO SLIDABLY MOVE ONLY LONGITUDINALLY WITH RESPECT TO EACH OTHER;

A FIRST CONNECTOR FIXED TO AND LATERALLY EXTENDING FROM ONE END OF THE BASE PORTION OF SAID FIRST SLIDE MEMBER;

AND A MATING CONNECTOR FIXED TO AND LATERALLY EXTENDING IN THE SAME DIRECTION AS SAID FIRST CONNECTOR FROM A CORRESPONDING END OF THE BASE PORTION OF SAID SECOND SLIDE MEMBER;

SAID CONNECTORS BEING MUTUALLY ALIGNED THROUGH THE AGENCY OF SAID SLIDE MEMBERS SO THAT WHEN THE ELECTRICAL COMPONENT CHASSIS IS FULLY INSERTED INTO THE CHASSIS RACK SAID CONNECTORS MUTUALLY ENGAGE EACH OTHER.