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Pyramid Technologies LLC

Pyramid Plastics, LLC

Gerhard A Foerster

Thaddeus J Soboleski

An improved electrical connector for terminating a low current multi-wire telephone cord of the like is comprised of a one piece dielectric housing having a cord receiving aperture with a plurality of terminal receiving slots extending between the aperture and a first or top exterior surface of the connector. The connector includes a recess operatively associated with the slots and extending from the aperture toward the exterior surface of the connector opposite the first or top exterior surface. Individual terminal blades of simplified configuration are positioned within the slots and have a wire contact portion adapted to pass through the longitudinal plane of the aperture into the recess. As the terminals are pressed into the housing for making electrical contact with the wires of the cord, they engage the wires of the cord and bend the wires out of the plane of the aperture and into the recess while simultaneously providing the requisite electrical contact. This positively locks the individual wires in place within the connector at each terminal making it virtually impossible to separate the cord from the connector even when the jacket of the cord of the insulative covering on the wire is not firmly anchored. The structure provides both a positive electrical connection between the terminal and the wire core and a secure mechanical interlock between the terminal, the wire and the housing of the connector plug.

Telephone cord terminating plug

A card rack includes parallel pairs of coplanar fins that extend inwardly from side walls whose spacing is adjustable. The inner edges of the coplanar fins are spaced apart so as to provide a passage for an elongated stop member that extends through all the compartments. Holes in tabs at both ends of the stop member receive self-tapping screws. The threaded portions of the screws engage opposed faces of upper and lower pairs of fins to secure the stop member in place. The screws can be loosened to slide the stop member along the upper and lower compartments and thereby adjust the depth of all the compartments.

Card-rack assembly

A card rack has dividers that extend from the front wall to the back wall at a acute angle. Each divider has a plurality of holes, and corresponding holes in all of the dividers are aligned to provide a plurality of elongated passages. A rod extends through one of the passages to determine the depth into the compartments between the dividers to which cards can be inserted. By withdrawing the rod from one passage and reinserting it into another passage, the depth of the compartment can be adjusted. This depth adjustment is provided in a card rack that is also adjustable in width.

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Woodbridge, CT, United States of America

Gerhard A Foerster