Reliance Comm/tec Corporation

Northern Telecom Limited

Thomas G Volk

Ben Farb

Richard T Kaczmarek

Alexander G Gilberts

Matthew Leschinger

Albert Kupferschmidt

Donald F Jaycox

Edward S Paluch

Jimmy W Parkerson

A flood protection pedestal protects telecommunications equipment and the like retained therein from water damage during flood conditions in the surrounding environment. The flood protection pedestal includes a base assembly, a structural cover assembly removably attached to the base assembly for covering the telecommunications equipment, and an air entrapping arrangement inside the cover assembly over the telecommunications equipment. The air entrapping arrangement may be either a thin walled unitary dome member integrally formed of a plastics material or a coating applied to the interior of the cover assembly. A downwardly oriented opening is formed in the dome member for receiving telecommunications equipment. A body of air is entrapped within the cover assembly when flood waters rise above a given level for protecting the telecommunications equipment from exposure to the flood waters.

Flood protection pedestal

Environmentally sealed insulation displacement connector terminal block

A reusable cap for providing mechanical, electrical and environmental isolation of an electrical terminal. The cap includes a tubular body which has in it an opening for receiving the wire(s) connected to the terminal binding post. The tubular body has a neck. Seated in the neck is the mechanism for engaging the threads of the binding post. The mechanism, which is made of conductive material, is seated in the neck so as to be rotatable without causing rotation of the housing. The cap also includes a removable cover which can be placed over the mechanism. Removing the cover allows the binding post to be accessible through the mechanism for the purposes of testing.

Reusable terminal locking cap

An environmentally sealed terminal block includes a hollow block member and a plurality of connection assemblies mountable on the block member for providing interconnections between respective conductors of two groups of wires. Each of the connection assemblies includes an insulation displacement connector for receiving at least one conductor of each of the two groups of wires, a cap mountable to the block for accepting a quantity of sealing material for surroundingly engaging and environmentally sealing the insulation displacement connector and having a through aperture. A conductive activating screw extends through the through aperture and has a head portion projecting outwardly of the cap when assembled therewith to provide a test point. A nonconductive head cap member surroundingly engages the head of the activating screw and has an opening for access to the test point, the head cap member engaging the cap member for coupling the screw therewith, and the screw being freely rotatable relative to the head cap member and to the cap member. A conductive plate electrically interconnects the activating screw and the insulation displacement connector; and a resealable cap seal is coupled with the nonconductive head cap member for covering the opening therein, and is selectively openable and reclosable for permitting selective access to the test point.

A bridging link for connecting terminals in an electrical terminal device in which a body of the link provides a plug body for insertion into a telephone jack. Electrically conductive lines extend from terminal positions in the plug body to terminal positions spaced from the plug body. The conductive lines may be electrically conductive strips extending through passages which are preferably open at one side for lateral insertion of the strips. A latch arrangement is advantageously used to connect the link to the telephone jack and the latch arrangement is spaced from the plug body.

Electrical bridging link for connecting terminals within a terminal

A connector for mounting on a vertical main frame has an elongate body portion containing a protector field and an elongate jumper field extending along one side. The connector is mounted on the frame member by a bracket which mounts the connector so that the body portion extends at an angle to the plane of the main frame. With an appropriate angle, a useful space is provided between connectors, for access, while removal and replacement of protector modules, and entire connectors, is readily available. One particularly appropriate angle is about 53.degree., while another is about 70.degree., although these can vary. A test field can also extend along one side, adjacent to the jumper field.

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Grayslake, IL, United States of America

Thomas G Volk