Mechanical assembly for ensuring electrical safety in a telephone set or terminal
AssigneeTelic Alcatel
InventorDidier Beauval
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
The mechanical safety assembly for a telephone set having a housing with a cover including a sliding lock for closing the cover (7). The lock includes an operating head (13) external to the body (1) of the telephone set or terminal. The head fits flush with the wall of the body (1) when in the closed position and leaving only smooth surface visible, one of said surfaces (23) being pierced with a hooking aperture (24) which is accessible by a tip (25) of a paperclip or ballpoint pen.
Claims5
A mechanical assembly for ensuring electrical safety in a telephone set having a body (1) with a pivotable cover (7), a top recess adjacent said cover, said assembly comprising a sliding lock within said body for locking the cover (7) in a slidably closed position, said lock having an operating head (13) projectable outside the body (1) and which, in the closed position of the lock, has an end surface which fits flush with a wall of the body (1) so that only smooth surfaces including said end surface and a top surface (23) are visible with the lock in closed position and said top surface (23) being provided with an aperture (24) accessible by a tip of a tool sized thereto for effecting sliding of the lock between closed and open positions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.