Abstract: An electrical data connector comprises a plug that is configured for insertion in a longitudinal direction into a complementary receptacle. The plug includes a connector element that is configured to be received within the receptacle and carries a plurality of electrical connectors, a body that is located externally of the receptacle when the connector element is inserted into the receptacle, and a releasable locking mechanism for locking the plug positively to the receptacle to prevent unintentional removal of the plug from the receptacle.

Abstract: An electrical data connector comprises a plug (2) that is configured for insertion in a longitudinal direction into a complementary receptacle (6). The plug (2) includes a connector element (10) that is configured to be received within the receptacle and carries a plurality of electrical connectors, a body (14) that is located externally of the receptacle when the connector element is inserted into the receptacle, and a releasable locking mechanism (22) for locking the plug positively to the receptacle to prevent unintentional removal of the plug from the receptacle.

Abstract: A telephone adapter (10, 20) for use with a telephone plug (21) having at least one male member (25) and a telephone socket (23), the plug and socket, so that a telephone plug (21) can be mounted in a telephone socket (23) with the adapter (10, 20) therebetween, the at least one male member (25) of the telephone plug (21) passing through the at least one hole (3) of the adapter into the telephone socket to support the telephone adapter and to connect the telephone plug (27) or socket (5) of the second standard to the socket of the first standard via the interconnections, the contacts and the male member of the plug.

Abstract: An electrical connector, particularly a telephone adaptor, comprising a plug portion and a socket portion, a plurality of electrical contacts on the plug portion, a plurality of corresponding electrical contacts in the socket portion, and a plurality of electrical conductors joining respective contacts on the plug portion and in the socket portion, each pair of contacts and its associated conductor consisting of a unitary wire member.

Abstract: An electrical connector having a hollow electrically insulating body having opposed ends. A set of male electrical contact members is on one end of the body. First and second body part together define the body. One of the body parts defines the one end of the body and its hollow interior. The other of the body parts defines the other end of the body. A recess in the one body part communicates with the hollow interior of the body, and receives the other body part. Means extending from the other body part into the hollow interior serves in trapping thus locating electrical conductor means associated with the male electrical contact members and as part of members frictionally interengaging to resist disassembly of the body.

Abstract: An electrical adaptor or connector (1) comprising a housing (2), a carrier member (5) rotatably mounted on the housing, a plurality of selectable pin arrays (7) disposed on the carrier member and adapted whereby rotation of the carrier relative to the housing brings the pin arrays into their operative condition one at a time, a plurality of socket arrays (6) on the housing and an apertured member (4) rotatably mounted on the housing whereby rotation of the member (4) brings a selected one of the plurality of socket arrays (6) into an operative condition, one at a time. The member (4) is held in each indexed position by detent member (15). The pins of the plurality of selectable pin arrays (7) are pivotally mounted on the carrier member (5) so that they can be moved from a retracted inoperative position to an outwardly extended position in which they also become electrically connected to the socket array.

Abstract: A telephone extension socket comprising a housing having opposed end portions, an entry formed in one end portion to receive a telephone cable having a plurality of electrically separate wires and a socket formed in the other end portion to receive a multi-contact plug, a plurality of recesses in the housing for the respective reception of the individual wires of the telephone cable, and a plurality of electrical contacts each in the form of a resilient metal strip and each having a first end which projects into a respective recess and which has a formation serving to engage a corresponding wire of the telephone cable, and a second end projecting into the socket end for engagement with a corresponding contact of a multi-contact plug.