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Multipole electric plug and socket

  • US 4,923,408 A
  • Filed: 11/08/1988
  • Issued: 05/08/1990
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/13/1987
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. Multipole electric plug and socket device including a plug enclosure and a socket box enclosure each having a front and a rear and in which contact elements and mating contact elements attached to electric lines are accommodated in corresponding compartments, where the enclosures can be connected to a pivot hinge device and can be locked with a catch mechanism opposite the pivot hinge device, and box-shaped magazines each having at least one compartment for the contact elements can be inserted into the box-shaped interior of the plug enclosure or the socket box enclosure or both such enclosures, and the magazines have catch lock devices that lock with mating catch devices on the enclosure walls,characterized in that at least one of the plug enclosure (13) and the socket box enclosure (3) have an insertion orifice (24) at either the front or the rear for insertion of at least one magazine (15, 16), the insertion orifice being adapted to the form and size of the magazine (15, 16), and that side walls (17, 18) of the plug enclosure extend forwardly from the rear wall (19) in a fork shape, and the side walls 917, 18) have angle bars (20) that are designed identically toward an interior space (4) at the top and bottom of the side walls and define angle recesses 921) facing toward the interior (14), the plug enclosure (13) is open between the upper angle bars (2)) and the lower angle bars (21) of the plug enclosure 913), and the box-shaped magazine (15, 16) has bar pieces 929) that are open toward the top and bottom in an extension of its side walls 927, 28) and fit so as to lock in the angle recesses 921) of angle bars (20) and free end edges (20a) of the angle bars (20) rest on upper edges 925a) of the walls of the compartments (25).

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