System for orienting one body relative to a second body in three orthogonal directions
AssigneeRCA Corporation
InventorRobert W. Chambers
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Abstract
A television receiver is located on a pallet assembly via molded-in-place locating elements in the receiver base. Two elements have corresponding openings which mate with respective resilient structures on the pallet assembly to locate the receiver in two orthogonal horizontal directions about a vertical axis. A set of the elements on the receiver base abut a set of corresponding elements on the pallet assembly for positioning a plurality of spaced points on the receiver cabinet in the vertical direction in a reference horizontal plane.
Claims13
A body locating system comprising:
- a body having first and second spaced aligned locating openings therein for defining a first body reference plane and at least three spaced first reference surfaces for locating a second body reference plane orthogonal to the first body reference plane;
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- body locating means comprising a support including first and second projections adapted to respectively resiliently engage said openings to position the first body reference plane relative to a first support reference plane, and at least three fixed second reference surfaces spaced to respectively abut said first reference surfaces when said projections are engaged with said openings so as to position said second body plane relative to a second support reference plane normal to the first support plane.
In a system for locating a body having first and second spaced aligned locating openings therein for defining a first body reference plane and at least three spaced first reference surfaces for locating a second body reference plane orthogonal to the first body reference plane, a body locating device comprising:
- a support;
- first and second projections secured to the support and adapted to respectively resiliently engage said openings to respectively position the first body reference plane relative to a first support reference plane
- at least three fixed second reference surfaces spaced to respectively abut said first reference surfaces when said projections are engaged with said openings so as to position said second body plane relative to a second support reference plane normal to the first support plane.
A body designed to be used with a body locating system including a support;
- first and second projections resiliently secured to the support for displacement in a given direction, the projections being adapted to define a first reference plane parallel to said given direction;
- and at least three first fixed spaced reference surfaces for defining a second reference plane normal to said first reference plane and said given direction, said body comprising:
- a member having said first and second openings, said openings being shaped to define a first body reference plane, said first body plane corresponding to and aligned with said first reference plane when the openings are engaged with said projections;
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- at least three spaced fixed second reference surfaces for defining a second body reference plane normal to the first body reference plane and corresponding to and aligned with the support secured reference plane when the projections are engaged with said openings.
A cabinet locating system comprising:
- a cabinet base having a plurality of locating elements, two of the elements have corresponding openings for locating a first reference plane relative to the cabinet, said base including a first set of fixed elements for locating a second reference plane relative to the cabinet normal to the first reference plane;
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- a pallet for locating the cabinet base relative thereto, the pallet including a set of resilient elements adapted to resiliently engage and locate the base first reference plane relative to a corresponding pallet first reference plane, the pallet further including a second set of fixed elements adapted to mate with and locate the first set of fixed elements relative to a pallet second reference plane normal to the pallet first reference plane to align the base relative to the pallet reference planes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.