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US 5,418,328 AGranted
Electric distributing system
OwnerJacques Nadeauinventor
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An electrical distribution system comprising one or more tracks having current-carrying conductors and ground conductor for mounting on wall surfaces. The tracks are slidingly received in connecting slots of electrical connector housings to connect the tracks to electrical outlets, or to interconnect sections of tracks together. More particularly, with the present invention it is not necessary to strip the ends of the tracks to expose connector ends to interconnect them with terminals in the connector housings. An end portion of the track is merely slid within a connecting slot of the housing. Electrical receptacles are also connected at any desired location along the track. The electrical distribution track can also be incorporated in an extruded baseboard together with a telephone line track to permit connection thereto of electrical receptacles as well as alarm systems, telephone jacks, fire detectors, surge protectors, etc.
A distribution track having an electrical distribution channel and a telephone line distribution channel disposed parallel thereto, said track being constructed of electrical insulating material, said electrical distribution channel having two current-carrying conductors retained in respective undercut channels disposed along opposed side edges of said electrical distribution channel and extending end to end thereof, said undercut channels facing one another inwardly of a top face of said electrical distribution channel, a ground conductor embedded in an intermediate region in said electrical distribution channel and extending between and parallel to said current-carrying conductors, said telephone line distribution channel having spaced apart telephone wires extending in a flat bottom wall thereof, and means to secure a telephone line tapping element to said telephone line distribution channel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.