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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 1985
Filed:
Apr. 20, 1983
Applicant:
Inventor:
Steve W Haskins, Mount Juliet, TN (US);
Assignee:
Northern Telecom Limited, Montreal, Quebec, CA;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
179164 ; 1791 / ;
Abstract
A telephone set, adaptable for either wall or desk top mounting, has an integral hookswitch and cup. The cup is at the rear of the telephone set, in the desk mounting mode, and at the top in the wall mounting mode. The cup receives the receiver end of the handset. The cup as a whole is pivoted and has a lever which acts on contact actuators of a switch. The cup is biased up, to an off hook position, being depressed by the handset to the on hook position.