Cook Electric Company

Arnold M Ladd

Casimir Z Cwirzen

Frank G Splitt

William W Hines

A connector assembly designed to be mounted on a telephone main distribution frame includes a connector base having a plurality of rows of channels formed on one face by ledges extending between elongated edges of the connector base, a ground plate having a conductive side and an insulating side and a plurality of pedestals. A first set of terminals extends through the pedestals, the ground plate and the connector base into the channels, and a second set of terminals extends through the pedestals, the ground plate and the connector base so as to project from the ledges such that the first and second sets of terminals maintain the connector base, ground plate and pedestals together. A set of ground receptacles extends from the insulating side of the ground plate and is coupled to the conductive side of the ground plate and with receptacle portions of the terminals in the first and second sets of terminals forms rows and columns of socket groups in the pedestals into which plug-in type protector module may be inserted. Along one of the elongated edges of the connector base is disposed a fanning strip through which incoming and central office telephone lines are extended for connection to the pin portions of the terminals projecting into the channels and from the ledges and is disposed a mounting bracket which groups the incoming telephone lines by having them maintained in channels in the mounting bracket by clip devices and which mounts the connector assembly to the distribution frame such that it can be rotated for easy access of the pin portions of the terminals. Covers also may be provided for the channels and for the pins extending from the ledges. In addition, along the other edge of the connector base, an identification plate or a test field assembly may be mounted.

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Arlington Heights, IL, United States of America

Arnold M Ladd