Mount for a communication device or the like

• US 4,178,060 A
• Filed: 03/30/1978
• Issued: 12/11/1979
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/1978
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: James G. Coffey
• Original Assignee: James G. Coffey
• Inventors: Coffey, James G.
• Primary Examiner(s): Desmond, E. F.
• Application Number:
  US05/891,514
• Time in Patent Office: 621 Days
• Field of Search: 339/75 M, 339/91 R, 339/119 R, 339/49 R, 248/203, 70/58, 70/DIG. 57
• US Class Current: 439/374
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/00 Two-part coupling devices, or either of their cooperating parts, characterised by their overall structure contact members H01R13/02; securing contact members in or to a base or case or insulating of contact members H01R13/40; bases or cases H01R13/46; means for supporting coupling part when not engaged H01R13/60; means for facilitating engagement or disengagement of coupling parts or for holding them in engagement H01R13/62; means for preventing, inhibiting or avoiding incorrect coupling H01R13/64
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/84 Hermaphroditic coupling devices
• CPC Class Codes: H02B 1/04 Mounting thereon of switches or of other devices in general, the switch or device having, or being without, casing

Abstract

A mount for a communication device such as a C.B. radio, a cassette player and the like including an upper plate for connection with a base member and a lower plate for connection with the item to be mounted. The upper plate has a flange mounted on each side thereof engageable with a flange mounted on each side of the lower plate when said lower plate is slidably mounted on said upper plate. The upper plate has an electrical terminal block mounted on the underside thereof having means for mating engagement for wire connectors with wire connectors of an electrical terminal block mounted on the upper side of the lower plate when the lower plate is slidably mounted on the upper plate.

Claims

1. A mount for a C.B. radio and the like having an upper plate and a lower plate slidably mounted thereon, said upper plate having a first terminal block and said lower plate having a second terminal block for mating engagement with said first terminal block, each of said terminal blocks having a male and female connector for interconnection when said terminal blocks are mated, each of said blocks having a hole in which each of said connectors is positioned, each of said male and female connectors having a pair of oppositely disposed barbs extending therefrom and a pair of oppositely disposed flanges spaced from said barbs and extending from said connector, the improvement in said terminal block, said improvement including

(a) said terminal block having means adjacent each of said holes for engagement with said barbs of each of said connectors and simultaneously with said flanges when said connectors are inserted in said holes.

2. The device of claim 1 in which said engagement means includes first and second opposed shoulders spaced a distance substantially equal to the spaced distance between said barbs and said flanges.

3. The terminal block of claim 2 in which said first shoulders are internally of a terminal block and said second shoulders are externally of a terminal block.