Northern Telecom Limited

Mitel Corporation

Frederick Thomas Cogan

Gerd Kuhfus

Beverly William Gumb

An expandable moulded cabinet for housing printed circuit boards, which is modular and uses only two kinds of parts. Instead of printed circuit board retainers and a backplane being fastened to a cabinet frame, which would require careful attention to tolerances, the retainers are held by the cabinet in approximately correct positions, and the backplane is supported by and is fixed directly to the retainers alone, and not the cabinet. Thus the only precision tolerances required are to the locations on the backplane where the printed circuit board retainers are supported. An inexpensive and versatile cabinet results.

Equipment cabinet

An extension cord for plug-in telephones comprises a line cord having a plug at one end for insertion in a telephone outlet and multi-outlet member on the other end. The multi-outlet member is in the form of a hollow box-like member in the front of which are at least two apertures with a jack aligned with an behind each aperture for insertion of a plug. A back cover is attached to the multi-outlet member and the line cord enters through a slot in the cover. The jacks are wired in parallel to the line cord. A latch can be provided on the plug of the line cord and the aperture can be profiled to provide latch engaging formations.

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London, Canada

Frederick Thomas Cogan