Electric power distribution conduit accessible for connection thereto along substantially its entire length

• US 3,295,093 A
• Filed: 05/21/1963
• Issued: 12/27/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 05/21/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Anthony Donato, Manfred Neumann
• Original Assignee: Anthony Donato, Manfred Neumann
• Inventors: MANFRED NEUMANN, Donato, Anthony
• Application Number:
  US04/282,538
• Time in Patent Office: 1,316 Days
• US Class Current: 439/118
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 21/35 with direct electrical contact between the supporting element and electric conductors running along the guiding element
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/20 Pins, blades, or sockets shaped, or provided with separate member, to retain co-operating parts together
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/64 Means for preventing incorrect coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 25/14 Rails or bus-bars constructed so that the counterparts can be connected thereto at any point along their length supporting elements for lighting devices, displaceable along guiding elements and making electrical contact with conductors running along the guiding elements F21V21/35
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 25/142 Their counterparts
• CPC Class Codes: H02G 3/16 structurally associated with support for line-connecting terminals within the box
• CPC Class Codes: H02G 3/263 Installation, e.g. suspension, of conduit channels or other supports

Claims

1. AN ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION TRACK COMPRISING AN ELONGATED RIGID MEMBER HAVING A TRACK SUPPORTING CHANNEL AND CONDUCTOR CARRYING CHANNEL INTEGRAL THEREWITH, A COMMON PARTITION BETWEEN THE CHANNELS, SAID CONDUCTOR CARRYING CHANNEL BEING SUBSTANTIALLY U-SHAPED AND HAVING A PAIR OF OPPOSED PARALLEL LEGS, A FLANGE EXTENDING INWARDLY FROM EACH OF SAID LEGS, AN ELONGATED INSULATING STRIP WITHIN SAID CONDUCTOR CARRYING CHANNEL AND EXTENDING THE LENGTH THEREOF, SAID STRIP BEING SUBSTANTIALLY U-SHAPED IN CROSS SECTION AND HAVING A BASE WITH A PAIR OF SPACED SIDE WALLS EACH HAVING AN INWARDLY EXTENDING LIP PORTION ADJACENT THE BASE AND SPACED THEREFROM TO DEFINE A SHEATH, A PAIR OF SPACED PARALLEL CONDUCTORS EXTENDING THE LENGTH OF SAID STRIP AND POSITIONED RESPECTIVELY ADJACENT EACH LATERAL EDGE OF THE BASE IN AN ASSOCIATED SHEATH, SAID SHEATHS SUBSTANTIALLY ENCOMPASSING AND MAINTAINING SAID ELECTRICAL CONDUCTORS IN SPACED INSULATED RELATIONSHIP, SAID INWARDLY EXTENDING LIPS ON SAID SHEATHS EXTENDING IN A PLANE PARALLEL TO THE BASE AND EXTENDING INWARDLY BEYOND THE PERIPHERY OF THE ASSOCIATED CONDUCTOR THEREBY PREVENTING ACCESS TO THE CONDUCTORS OTHER THAN ALONG A PLANE PARALLEL TO SAID BASE, SAID SIDE WALLS OF SAID STRIP DEFINING SPACER LEGS EXTENDING FROM THE LATERAL EDGES OF THE BASE THEREOF INTO CONTACT WITH SAID FLANGE AND REACTING THEREAGAINST TO URGE SAID BASE AGAINST SAID COMMON PARTITION.