Telephone wall jack cover
AssigneeIllinois Tool Works Inc.
InventorBruce W. Anderson
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Abstract
An electrical jack for telephones or the like is disclosed. The jack includes a box-like cover in which a number of bi-ended wires are mounted. Each wire terminates at one end in a spring contact adapted and located for engagement with a screw connector carried on a terminal block. At its other end, each wire terminates in a resilient folded spring contact. A clip member receives and mounts these folded spring contacts in a fixed, electrically spaced apart relationship. The clip is carried in the cover in such a location as to form part of a socket adapted to receive a multi-wire electrical plug.
Claims19
An electrical jack for a telephone of the like, comprising a cover member, a plurality of bi-ended wires carried in predetermined spaced relation within the cover member, each wire terminating at one end in a spring contact adapted and located for electrical contact with a screw connector carried on a terminal block, each wire terminating at its other end in a resilient reversely folded spring contact adapted and located for electrical contact with a multi-wire male electrical plug connector, a clip member adapted to mate with the cover member and form a female socket therewith to receive the male multi-wire plug, the clip member including a clip body defining a plurality of wire grooves for receiving said wire reversely folded spring contact ends and for mounting the wires in a fixed, electrically spaced apart relationship, the clip member further including a clip cover means adapted to be secured over the grooves to retain the wires in said relationship, and clip hinge means rotatably interconnecting the clip body and the clip cover to permit the clip cover to be folded over the clip body and retain the wires in and on the clip.
An electrical jack according to claim 5 wherein said second leg terminates in a ledge, the leg being adapted to engage the cover member and having a predetermined thickness to be retained by a plate member at a predetermined stand-off distance from the cover member to permit passage of said wires between said cover member and said cover plate member.
An electrical jack for a telephone or the like, comprising a cover member, a clip member adapted to mate with the cover member and form a female socket therewith to receive a male multi-wire plug, means in at least said clip member for mounting a plurality of uninterrupted jack wires in and on the cover and clip members and for positioning the jack wires to engage the plug wires in electrically connective contacts, and means for mounting a multi-wire terminal block in and on the cover member with terminal block electrical contacts in electrically connective contact with said plurality of jack wires, the clip member including a clip body defining a plurality of grooves for receiving the jack wires, a clip cover adapted to be secured over the wires, and clip hinge means rotatably interconnecting the clip body and the clip cover to permit the clip cover to be folded over the clip body and retain the wires in and on the clip.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.