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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 1991
Filed:
Dec. 18, 1989
Clarence E Doyle, Chester, NJ (US);
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
A terminal board panel comprises a longitudinally elongated frame enclosing a rectangular space, and a plurality of terminal boards disposed end-to-end in a longitudinal column in such space. Each board on its laterally opposite sides has outwardly projecting flanges cooperating with inwardly projecting flanges on two rails on laterally opposite sides of (and forming parts of) the frame to lock the board to the frame by tongue-and-groove couplings. Ones of the flanges on the boards and on the rails comprise an alternation of projecting tabs and of gaps between such tabs to permit the 'tongue' of the associated coupling to be inserted in the 'groove' thereof by a transverse relative vertical movement of board and frame by which the tabs of one of such flanges passes through the gaps in the other. The 'tongue' is then locked into the 'groove' by a longitudinal horizontal sliding of the board relative to the frame until the tabs of the 'tongue' flange are flanked on either side by solid portions of the other flanges constituting the coupling. The boards also have interfitting flanges thereon for locking the boards together by tongue-and-groove couplings when assembled between the rails. Each board supports an array of wire connection posts and has wire fanning strips along two sides.