Packaging system for storing and handling electrical connector components within storage tubes
AssigneeMolex Incorporated
InventorsKyle J. Marchek, Timothy R. McClelland
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Abstract
A packaging system is disclosed for storing and handling electrical connector components and the like. The system employs a plurality of elongated component-containing tubes. Each tube has an aperture near at least one end thereof. An assembly rod passes through aligned apertures of a plurality of generally parallel juxtaposed tubes to hold the tubes in a generally stacked array. A stopper plug is adapted for insertion into the one end of each tube to retain the components therein. The assembly rod interengages each stopper plug, whereby all of the stopper plugs are held in their respective tubes by the assembly rod, and removal of the rod from the tubes pulls the stopper plugs out of the one ends of the tubes.
Claims11
A packaging system for storing and handling electrical connector components, comprising:
- a plurality of elongated component-containing tubes, each tube having an aperture near at least one end thereof;
- an assembly rod adapted for passing through aligned apertures of a plurality of generally parallel juxtaposed tubes to hold the tubes in a generally stacked array;
- a stopper plug adapted for insertion into said one end of each tube to retain the components therein;
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- complementary interengaging holding means between the assembly rod and each stopper plug whereby all of the stopper plugs are held in their respective tubes by the assembly rod and removal of the rod from the tubes releases the stopper plugs for their removal from the tubes.
A packaging system for storing and handling electrical connector components, comprising:
- a plurality of elongated component-containing tubes, each tube having an aperture near at least one end thereof and the aperture being open toward said one end;
- an assembly rod adapted for passing through aligned apertures of a plurality of generally parallel juxtaposed tubes to hold the tubes in a generally stacked array;
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- a resilient stopper plug adapted for insertion into said one end of each tube to retain the components therein, each stopper plug including a hole through which the assembly rod passes to hold the stopper plugs in the tubes,
- whereby all of the stopper plugs are held in their respective tubes by the assembly rod and the assembly rod can be moved out of the open apertures in the tubes lengthwise of the tubes, transversely of the rod, and pull the stopper plugs therewith out of said one ends of the tubes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.