Device for fixing a casing on a section bar with parallel rims

• US 4,157,858 A
• Filed: 05/17/1978
• Issued: 06/12/1979
• Est. Priority Date: 05/27/1977
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Cgee Alsthom
• Original Assignee: Cgee Alsthom
• Inventors: Debaigt, Jean
• Primary Examiner(s): Abrams, Neil
• Assistant Examiner(s): Brown, John S.
• Application Number:
  US05/906,810
• Time in Patent Office: 391 Days
• Field of Search: 339/198 GA, 339/198 G, 339/198 R, 339/198 H, 174/158 R, 248/221.3, 248/223.2
• US Class Current: 439/716
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 9/2608 Fastening means for mounting on support rail or strip H01R9/2691 takes precedence; for switch or other electrical device H02B1/042

Abstract

The device is characterized in that the casing comprises at its base and on one side a bearing flat on one of the rims of a section bar, said flat being flanked firstly by a first resilient fixing tab which comprises at the level of the flat a resilient lock notch and secondly by a second fixing tab which comprises a rigid fixing notch at the level of the flat, the end of one of said rims co-operating with one of these notches, while on the other side of the casing the end of the other rim co-operates simultaneously but respectively with a rigid fixing notch disposed at the root of a third fixing tab and a resilient lock notch disposed at the end of said third resilient fixing tab.

Claims

1. A structure for fixing a casing having opposite sides to a support bar having parallel rims, said bar being either of two different types, one type having rims turned outwards and the other type having rims turned inwards, said casing comprising a base having a flat which bears on one of the rims of either type bar, said flat being flanked on one outer side by a first resilient fixing tab which includes a first resilient lock notch at one side and at the level of the flat and on the inner side of said first tab by a second fixing tab which includes a second, rigid fixing notch at the level of the flat, said flat being flanked on the other outer side by a third resilient fixing tab having a rigid fixing notch disposed at the root of said third fixing tab and having a second resilient lock notch disposed at the end of said third resilient tab;

whereby, the end of said rim at said one side co-operates with a given one of said notches depending on the type of bar, while on the other side of the casing, the other end of the other rim co-operates simultaneously with a rigid fixing notch disposed at the root of said third fixing tab or with said second resilient lock notch disposed at the end of said third resilient tab, depending upon the type of bar.

2. A structure according to claim 1, including a recess provided between the flat and the second fixing tab at the root of the fixing notch.

3. A structure according to claim 1, wherein the first tab is formed by an extension of the side of the casing from which it is separated by a slot.

4. A structure according to claim 1, wherein the third fixing tab includes, at its root, a small vertical slot.

5. A structure according to claim 1, wherein the casing includes a second bearing flat at the level of the rigid fixing notch between the second fixing tab and the third fixing tab.

6. A structure according to claim 1, wherein the casing is a terminal block.