At&t Bell Laboratories

At&t Information Systems Inc.

Jerome M Gotway

John N McGarvey

Donald M Genaro

Norris R Hall

Alvin R Tilley

David C Danielson

Richard R Brooks

Audrey F Burson

Telephone answering device

A jack has therein a longitudinal guideway in the back of which the free end of a printed wiring jack board projects longitudinally forward in the guideway and has laterally spaced conductive terminals on its top. The guideway is adapted to slidably receive a cartridge connector plug comprising a cartridge housing with a front opening for a longitudinal passage therein, a pair of axleless resiliently deformable lateral rollers in said housing back of said opening on opposite sides of said passage, and a flex bond unit longitudinally displaceably received in the passage and comprising a printed circuit plug board and a flexible sheet bonded to that board and having a forwardly projecting tail with laterally spaced conductive terminals matching those of the jack board. In use, the cartridge connector plug is id by hand into the jack guideway to cause insertion of the free end of the jack board into the cartridge opening to abut the front end of the plug board in the cartridge and to overlap with the mentioned tail so that the terminals on the jack board and tail register face to face in pairs. The jack board drives the plug board rearward in the cartridge housing to cause rolling of the rollers from first positions offset from the overlap to second positions on the overlap and at which the rollers press the registering pairs of terminals into firm contact to thereby connect circuitry on the plug board with circuitry coupled to the terminals on the jack board.

Electrical connector apparatus

Telephone base

Telephone base with extender

Housing for a telephone

Growing community of inventors

Indianapolis, IN, United States of America

Jerome M Gotway