Retainer member for anchoring a telephone handset to a telephone housing
OwnerAllen W. Vogl, John H. MacNeillinventors
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Abstract
A retainer member uses a simply curved surface to engage the yoke-receiver handset juncture. The retainer member includes a top portion which matches the handset receiver circuitry and includes end portions that engage the substantially circular receiver portion of the handset to provide a further distribution of applied forces. The top portion of the retainer member is provided with an end plug bore or opening having a top surface to prevent the end plug from becoming dislocated within the receiver portion. Also, a separate telephone wire channel is provided to keep separate the telephone wires from the flexible stranded cable thus insuring that no damage will occur to the telephone signal wires when the handset is subsequently stressed.
Claims11
A retainer member for securing a telephone handset to a telephone housing via a cable, the handset having a yoke portion and a receiver portion connected at a yoke/receiver junction, wherein said retainer member, comprises:
- a front surface curved in only one plane parallel to a longitudinal axis of the headset, allowing the retainer member to be inserted into the yoke-receiver junction such that only a bottom portion and side edges of the front surface contact an interior surface of the yoke/receiver junction, the majority of said front surface being in a non-contacting relationship with the interior surface;
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- a bottom surface, rear surface and a top surface portion, said top surface portion including an integral stop to prevent an end plug of said cable from extending out of the top surface of said retainer member.
A system for securing a telephone handset to a telephone housing, the handset having a yoke portion and a receiver portion connected at a yoke/receiver junction, comprising:
- a retainer member having a front surface, curved in only one plane parallel to a longitudinal axis of the headset, allowing the retainer member to be inserted into the yoke/receiver junction such that only a bottom portion and two edge portions of the front surface contact an interior surface of the yoke/receiver junction, the majority of said front surface being in a non-contacting relationship with the interior surface;
- and a bottom surface, rear surface and a top surface portion;
- a cable, one end of said cable being attached to said telephone housing and the other end having an end plug;
- wherein said bottom and rear surfaces of the retainer member are provided with a first slot for receiving said cable, said first slot terminating at an end plug opening arranged in the top surface for receiving the end plug, said opening including an integral stop to prevent the end plug from extending out of the opening opposite said first slot.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.