Telephone tester junction box

• US 5,440,609 A
• Filed: 05/05/1994
• Issued: 08/08/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 05/05/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Tony G. Curtis
• Original Assignee: Tony G. Curtis
• Inventors: Curtis, Tony G.
• Primary Examiner(s): Chin, Stephen
• Assistant Examiner(s): Shankar, Vijay
• Application Number:
  US08/238,626
• Time in Patent Office: 460 Days
• Field of Search: 379/21, 379/26, 379/27, 379/29, 379/30, 379/31, 379/438
• US Class Current: 379/21
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/24 Arrangements for testing
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/30 for subscriber's lines , for the local loop

Abstract

A junction box for coupling alligator test clips to a modular telephone line. The device includes a housing having a plurality of contacts to which each alligator clip of a telephone testing apparatus may be connected. A female modular telephone receptacle is provided having a plurality of color-coded wires electrically coupled to the respective contacts. The contacts are each labeled in accordance with conventional telephone wire colors. The telephone testing apparatus may be easily coupled to a male modular telephone connector of the telephone line to be tested. The device eliminates the conventional practices of moving furniture to access telephone outlets, and disassembling telephones for access to internal contacts.

Claims

1. A telephone tester junction box comprising:

a rectangular housing having a front wall spaced from a rear wall with a pair of spaced side walls extending parallel between said front and rear walls, the housing further including a base integrally formed with said walls and a cover plate removably coupled to said walls at a location above the base, with each of the side walls being provided with two rectangularly shaped, spaced side wall apertures which extend from said upper surface of said side walls to said base, said cover plate having four cover plate apertures orthogonally aligned with respective side wall apertures to thereby create a general quadrature type arrangement;

four contacts secured to said base for engaging alligator clips of a telephone testing apparatus, each of said contacts being aligned with an individual one of said cover plate apertures, each of said contacts comprising a contact base plate secured to said base, a contact vertical plate extending orthogonally from said contact base plate, with an orthogonally projecting contact horizontal plate extending from said contact vertical plate and positioned slightly below said respective cover plate apertures;

an extension line disposed within and projected from the housing and having four contrasting colored leads, each of said leads being electrically coupled to an individual one of said contacts, said extension line further having a modular female jack electrically coupled thereto, said modular female jack being operable to engage a modular telephone male connector; and

indicating indicia positioned upon said cover plate for labelling each contact relative to said contrastingly colored leads.