Contacts

• US 3,323,102 A
• Filed: 03/21/1966
• Issued: 05/30/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 08/04/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Leon C. Minor
• Original Assignee: Leon C. Minor
• Inventors: Minor, Leon C.
• Application Number:
  US04/536,132
• Time in Patent Office: 435 Days
• US Class Current: 439/862
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/629 Additional means for facilitating engagement or disengagement of coupling parts, e.g. aligning or guiding means, levers, gas pressure electrical locking indicators, manufacturing tolerances separate tools or apparatus H01R43/26
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 2101/00 One pole

Claims

1. A CONTACT PARTICULARLY FOR ENGAGEMENT BY A PATCH PIN OF A PATCH BOARD, SAID CONTACT COMPRISING AN ELONGATE FLEXIBLE SPRING ARM ADAPTED FOR MOUNTING AT ONE END THEREOF AND HAVING AT ITS OTHER AND FREE END A TIP INCLUDING A CONTACT SURFACE ENGAGEABLE BY THE PIN, SAID CONTACT SURFACE BEING CURVED CONCAVELY TRANSVERSE THE LENGTH OF THE ARM AND CURVED CONVEXLY LONGITUDINALLY OF THE ARM ACROSS THE CONCAVE CURVE TO PRESENT A SADDLE-SHAPE CONTACT SURFACE AT SAID TIP FOR ENGAGEMENT BY THE PIN, SAID CONTACT SURFACE INCLUDING A BOSS OF GENERALLY CONICAL SHAPE ENGAGEABLE BY SAID PIN AND SUBSTANTIALLY CENTRALLY POSITIONED ON THE SADDLE-SHAPE SURFACE.