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.

Abstract: The modular telephone box comprises a flanged housing and within the housing a multi-pin telephone receptacle having contact openings located on the top surface of the housing; a second telephone connecting receptacle is secured to one side of the housing; a contact plate is mounted in the housing parallel to its top surface and includes bolt nuts embedded therein, the bolt nuts forming a configuration corresponding to that of the openings of the first receptacle, each nut being connected to a corresponding contact in the first and second receptacles; a contact plate is adapted to support either flat contact springs for contacting a telephone terminal block or, alternatively, contact pins having threaded end portions screwed into the bolt nuts and projecting above the bottom edge of the housing to form a telephone connecting plug matching contact openings of the first receptacle of an other modular connecting box.

Abstract: A connection assembly for joining a pair of electric light rail members, wherein a flexible cable mantle extends between and is attached to a pair of coupling members, with each of the coupling members being attached to a confronting rail member. A plurality of similarly shaped fin members are spaced along the mantle, with each fin member extending substantially radially from the cable mantle and each fin member having an outer contour similar to the outer contour of each of the rail members to provide an optically continuous connection assembly.

Abstract: A low insertion force connector assembly comprising a number of contact modules. Each contact module includes a nonconductive contact carrier housing having oppositely facing sides and comprising, extending between the oppositely facing sides, a pair of cam openings and a notch. Included in each contact carrier housing is at least one electrical spring contact cantilevered in the contact carrier housing and extending adjacent one of the openings and along a side of the notch. The contact modules are aligned with the notches in a common row and the openings in first and second aligned rows. Also included in the connector assembly are first and second cam actuating means extending through, respectively, the first and second rows of openings. Each cam actuating means is adapted for actuating all of the cantilevered contacts adjacent the openings in the corresponding row into contact with a member inserted into the aligned notches.

Abstract: A plug in igniter unit for an igniter system for a fuel burning apparatus having at least one electrical receptacle, the plug in igniter unit being provided with a housing having an electrical igniter therein and at least one terminal member electrically interconnected to the electrical igniter and projecting from the housing so as to be adapted to be received in the receptacle for electrical interconnection thereto. The terminal member has opposed ends respectively being operatively interconnected to the igniter and being adapted to be plugged in the receptacle and being twisted between the opposed ends thereof to define a twisted section thereof. The housing has a body portion provided with a chamber passing therethrough and receiving the twisted section whereby the opposed ends of the terminal member extend outwardly from the body portion in opposite directions. A potting compound is disposed in the chamber to secure the twisted section of the terminal member to the body portion.

Abstract: An apparatus for breaking up clumps of particulate material into an even dispersion entrained within an airstream. It includes an elongated vortex tube that is open to an intake of a radial blade blower. The opposite end of the vortex tube includes a coaxial choke orifice. Particulate material is fed into the vortex tube through a tangential chute at a location adjacent the one vortex tube end. In operation, a pair of coaxial helical or vortex airstreams are formed within the vortex tube, one contained within the other. The outer vortex includes a directional component directed outward from the blower intake, while the inner vortex feeds toward the blower intake and blower blades. Material fed through the chute is received tangentially within the first outer vortex and is drawn in the outward direction. As its velocity drops, it meets the interface between the two concentric vortices.

Abstract: A fused plug having the line cord wires terminating within the plug and a fuse link inside the plug between each wire and an associated plug prong.

Abstract: A high density double contacting connector assembly for leadless integrated circuit packages. The plastic connector package includes upper and lower header portions each having a plurality of mating terminal reception channels formed therein. The upper header portion includes probing holes to allow ready testing of integrated circuit packages mounted on the connector assembly. Each channel is designed to receive an S-shaped spring-beam contact. Each type of unitary contact includes an IC terminal contacting portion, a generally S-shaped spring-beam portion, a probe portion, a base portion, and a circuit board contacting portion. Each contact is provided with U-shaped pivot on the base portion for engaging a wall of the terminal reception channels. Preloading means formed in the upper header portions insure that all contacts are automatically preloaded when the upper and lower header portions are secured together.

Abstract: Solid materials are fed into a crusher together with a pressurized liquid and led to a crushing passage for crushing large solid blocks therein into smaller solid particles. The crushed solid particles are discharged into a transportation pipe together with the pressurized liquid for piping out.The crusher comprises a laterally extending cylindrical housing provided with an inflow port and an outflow port, and a cylindrical rotor eccentrically provided at the inside of the cylindrical housing to define the crushing passage therebetween, which passage becomes narrower toward the outflow port.

Abstract: The drawings illustrate an electrical connector including a conventional electrical connector body portion having a metal terminal secured therein and having an open-ended notch formed adjacent the terminal for sliding engagement with an external terminal post. A lock member portion includes a rigid arm integrally formed along one edge of the connector body portion, and a movable arm integrally pivotally connected at a midpoint thereof to the rigid arm and extending along an opposite edge of the connector body portion. An inwardly projecting locking corner is formed on the end of the movable arm adjacent the open-ended notch, adapted to being flexed outwardly by the movement therepast of the external terminal post upon the forcing of the connector body portion onto the terminal post for locking engagement with the terminal.

Abstract: A feed-thru type hermetic electrical connector including at least one connector pin feeding through an insulator block within the metallic body of the connector shell. A compression stop arrangement coaxially disposed about the insulator body is brazed to the shell, and the shoulder on the insulator block bears against this top in a compression mode, the high pressure or internal connector being at the opposite end of the shell. Seals between the pin and an internal bore at the high pressure end of the insulator block and between the insulator block and the metallic shell at the high pressure end are hermetically brazed in place, the first of these also functioning to transfer the axial compressive load without permitting appreciable shear action between the pin and insulator block.

Abstract: A single-bolt joint having louvered contact strips interposed the bus bars and conductor splice plates for improved electrical connection under low insertion forces is tightened to become a solid connector assembly prior to attachment to the bus bars of a first bus duct and requires no additional tightening after insertion of the bus bars of the second bus duct. Expansion of the bus bars is accommodated at each joint without special apparatus.

Abstract: A converter plug which has two electrodes designed to be removably received in a standard electric outlet box and which has a "ground" terminal that may be swung into an inoperative and concealed position when the outlet box is not equipped with a socket for receiving the "ground" terminal. A "ground" wire is connected to the "ground" terminal and may be connected to the outlet box when the "ground" terminal is not used. The converter plug also has an adjustable locking disc with three openings for receiving the three fixed prongs of a standard self-locking electric plug. The two electrodes and the "ground" terminal each have a hook-shaped end adapted to receive and interlock with its associated hook-shaped end of the three prongs in the standard self locking electric plug when the latter has its three prongs inserted into the disc openings and the standard plug is rotated with respect to the converter plug into locked position.

Abstract: An environmentally protected connector assembly for terminating a coaxial cable includes a tubular stem insertable between the braided outer conductor and inner insulation of the cable and fixedly carrying a collar and rotatably carrying a coupling nut for connection to a compatible connector component. O-rings provide seals between the coupling nut and the compatible connector and the collar. A resilient sleeve is received over the cable and includes inner ribs adjacent to one end to provide a watertight seal with the cable and having at the other end a lip engaging a flange on the collar to provide a further watertight seal. A retaining shoulder in the sleeve cooperates with an enlarged portion of the insertion end of the stem to retain the sleeve in place and provide further sealing. A crimp ferrule around the cable serves to clamp it on the connector stem.

Abstract: A vertical carton erecting machine of the stationary die-reciprocal plunger type in which the knife edges for opening the carton slots and receiving the tabs are fixedly mounted on the plunger. Cam-operated flippers press the top edges of the carton outwardly to cause the tabs and slots to interlock. Carton strippers stationarily mounted at the bottom of the die may then engage the carton and strip it from the plunger as the latter is withdrawn.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a rotor construction and particularly one in which the rotor includes a plurality of open-faced knife sets each having at least a pair of longitudinally spaced plates. At peripherally spaced locations between said plates, relatively heavy material contacting blocks are disposed. The blocks in turn provide a seat for a knife blade. Material fed to the chamber of a granulating machine in which such rotor is mounted, is contacted by the plates and the blocks with a pummelling action and by the knives in a cutting action. The material so pummelled and cut is thereafter free to pass immediately into open face portions or pockets disposed between the plates of each knife set. The material contacting faces of the plates and the blocks are provided with a hard faced surface. The rotor is referred to as being of "club-foot" construction.

Abstract: A conical mandrel rotatable at a first station for rolling a precut paper-like container blank into a conical shape and having two separate, angularly spaced and axially extending rows of vacuum retention ports timely connected to a low pressure source via an axially shiftable control valve within the mandrel for vacuum retention of the leading and trailing edges of the rolled container blank as it is rolled and while the mandrel is indexed to a sealing station where overlapping leading and trailing edge portions of the rolled container blank are sealed together.

Abstract: A one piece stamped and formed connector clip for connecting cable conductors to conductors on a circuit board comprises parallel spaced-apart co-planar support strips and a clip bar which extends between the support strips in a plane offset from the plane of the support strips. A plurality of cantilever springs extend from the clip bar obliquely towards and past the plane of the support strips. When the connector clip is mounted on a circuit board in straddling relationship to the circuit board conductors, and with the support strips against the circuit board, the springs will be pre-loaded against the circuit board conductors. The end of the cable is passed beneath the clip bar and pushed under the spring fingers so that the spring fingers urge the conductors of the cable against the circuit board conductors.

Abstract: An electrical connection device, particularly but not exclusively for printed circuit boards, consists of a rigid insulating support for receiving a board, resilient contact members each having one end fixed relative to the support and adapted to engage resiliently, through an active region of the contact member, a respective one of a number of conductive connection tracks on the board, and a control mechanism operable alternately to open and close the contact members to allow insertion and extraction of the board. The control mechanism comprises at least one slide movable in the rigid support and each contact member comprises, between a portion forming a hinge and a movable end held or joined in fixed position in the slide, two substantially rectilinear portions which are inclined to one another and to the direction of translation of the slide and which are guided transversely by the slide, the junction of the two portions forming the active region of the contact member.

Abstract: A mating clip is provided for use in securing together the mated halves, i.e., a mated receptacle and plug, of a connector. The mating clip is of one piece tubular construction formed from semi-rigid plastic and incorporates inner shoulders which fit grooves of a mated connector. The clip includes a longitudinal hinge integral to the body of the clip and opposite to a slit through the body. The hinge permits the body of the clip to be opened to receive a connector and closed to retain the connector. Latching means are provided in association with the slit to hold the mating clip in its closed state. The spacing of the inner ridges of the mating clip is such that the clip cannot be closed on a connector in place unless the connector is fully assembled so that its grooves mate with the inner shoulder in the clip. The clip prevents extreme flexure or bending of a supported connector.