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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 1980
Filed:
Jan. 17, 1978
Heinz Kelch, Buchenberg, DE;
Kienzle Apparate GmbH, Villingen, DE;
Abstract
The housing of an electronic taximeter has a first fixed section including the rear and bottom walls which are fixedly secured to and sealed to the chassis of a taxicab, and a removable second section which may include the front, top and side walls of the housing and has grooves engaging portions of the bottom wall. The entire second section removable to enable adjustment or repair of the basic taximeter apparatus which is mounted on the first section. The second section is formed as a modular element which contains many of the operating elements of the taximeter, including actuating elements such as push-buttons or the like, all of which may be simply removed as a one-piece unit. The invention is particularly adapted for use as an electronic taximeter which may be conveniently formed as two separable modular units each containing operating elements of the taximeter which cooperate with each other when the taximeter is assembled but which, nevertheless, need not be removed from the individual modular section upon which they are operatively mounted when the first and second modular sections are separated.