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In December 2014, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) finalized a new rule that dramatically alters long-standing policies governing union elections. The board's ambush election rule arbitrarily limits the ability of employers to legally prepare for union elections, delays answers to important questions – like voter eligibility – until after the election, gives workers as little as 11 days to consider all the facts about joining a union before casting their ballots, and requires employers to provide their employees' personal information to union leaders, including email addresses, work schedules, phone numbers, and home addresses. As a result of these changes, the ambush election rule will:
The NLRB's ambush election rule is part of a culture of union favoritism that is hurting workers and employers. In an effort to prevent the activist NLRB from imposing sweeping changes on our workplaces, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Chairman Phil Roe (R-TN) introduced H.J. Res. 29, a resolution under the Congressional Review Act that will block the board's ambush election rule, preserving fair election policies that have been in place for decades. An identical resolution (S. J. Res. 8), sponsored by Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN), passed the Senate on March 4.
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Kennewick police have not released any new information, but now say the fatal shooting on Friday was self-inflicted.
Kennewick police have not released any new information, but now say the fatal shooting on Friday was self-inflicted.
Pasco Police are asking the public for their help finding an armed and dangerous suspect who allegedly shot a man last night on road 60 and south of Argent.
In a case that seemed to be ripped right out of the episodes of the popular TV show Criminal Minds, a 66-year-old female Oregon farmer has been found guilty in the death of two handymen, who disappeared while working for her between 2012-2013. How they died was the shocking part.
Comparing the Feb. 10 event in Pasco to Ferguson, Missouri, attorneys Jose Baez and Benjamin Crump said they have sent a formal letter asking for federal assistance.
A Pasco Hispanic community leader is asking for a federal investigation into the fatal shooting of Antonio Zambrano-Montes saying the investigation by the Special Investigations Unit will have "no credibility whatsoever."
Pasco police have released more information on 35-year-old Antonio Zambrano-Montes, the man shot by officers Tuesday evening outside Fiesta Foods. A transient, Zambrano-Montes had a prior 3rd Degree Felony charge for assaulting a Pasco police officer, a Class "C" felony.
Pasco police have identified the man three officers shot Tuesday evening after he threw rocks at them and nearby vehicles as 35-year-old transient Antonio Zambrano-Montes. After video footage of the shooting spread on social media, several dozen protesters stood peacefully outside Pasco City Hall Wednesday.
More information is trickling out about the early Tuesday evening fatal shooting near 10th and Lewis in Pasco. (Video courtesy of YouTube- Chris G)
Richland police have apprehended two teens in connection with a shooting that left bullet holes in one of the units in the Alyson Manor Mobile Home Park on Mahan Street in Richland.
The death of a 22-year-old man who was shot while driving through the parking lot of a Pasco apartment complex is now considered a homicide. (Photo courtesy of KNDU-TV)
Three students have been wounded, one critically, after a gunman opened fire at Florida State University. Classes at FSU are cancelled today.
A freshman walked up to a table in his Marysville-Pilchuck High School cafeteria (north of Everette, Washington) before 11 a.m. and shot up to six classmates.

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[This post is penned by Plexxi executive Bill Koss]
Two months ago I read an interesting blog post by Greg Ferro titled "Cheap Network Equipment Makes a Better Data Centre." At Plexxi, I am the person who leads our sales team and I found the post interesting because I think there is a lot of disinformation in the market regarding the cost of procuring networks. Every week it seems I read a report or article on networking margins, port prices, market share, SDN, bare metal, leaf/spine, open source, linux, etc. When I speak to customers, there is an equal amount of confusion and in my view it perpetuates the current state in favor of the incumbents.
As a level set, when a potential client asks: what does Plexxi do? I tell them we build ethernet switches based on merchant silicon; we use Linux for an operating system, we use a photonic inter-connect fabric and distributed controller architecture. Our switches speak ethernet and IP, just like all ethernet switches, but it is the controller and photonic fabric that make our switches different. Together we believe that our technology results in a system that has transformative scale, performance, and efficiency advantages compared to legacy network architectures.
Recently we provided a proposal to a potential client regarding their network. As with Greg Ferro's project, we provided an all in proposal that included cables, software, transceivers, switches, controllers, accessories, support costs and the fabric interconnect ports. There were two design options based around the size of the interconnect fabric, which most people refer to as the spine or core. I have condensed some of the details for reading ease, but I think this is a transparent description of the proposal regarding (i) the costs of building a Plexxi network and (ii) how it is different with the choice of two different fabric options, much like the blog post from Greg. Here is the summary table of the network design options:
|# 10G Client Ports
|$ Per 10G Client Port
|Fabric Size
|Total 1 Year Cost
|2.88 Tbps
|11.52 Tbps
|23.04 Tbps
|1.44 Tbps
|5.76 Tbps
|11.52 Tbps
In a Plexxi network, we use a controller architecture. Our controller computes efficient photonic forwarding topologies. This type of architecture, often referred to as SDN, provides a number of benefits, but it begins with a fluid pool of capacity within the fabric. The capacity in our photonic fabric can be allocated, reassigned and reconfigured. Without providing a long technical description of how our controller operates, an important concept to understand is we use 100% of the fabric and we do not implement spanning tree or block links. We compute forwarding topologies using multi-flow commodity, graph theory math; that is one of the jobs of Plexxi Control. A Plexxi fabric can be used inside your data center and the use of a photonic fabric means the fabric can be extended to campus and metro area designs. Here are a few points regarding our controller and fabric architecture:
- The photonic fabric is managed as pool of capacity
- Applications and workloads that are important can be assigned fabric capacity
- Capacities can change, evolve and forwarding topologies can be diurnal
- Controller based fabrics are deterministic as opposed to distributed state fabrics that take time to compute state, which may or may not result in an optimal design.
- Controller based fabrics can centrally compute optimal paths and provide fast convergence by pre-computing failure recovery states
The use of a controller with a photonic fabric provides a number of scaling benefits. The most obvious benefit is the linear cost curves in terms of price per client port. The following chart shows the 10G client port cost in scaling from 400 to 3400 ports.
The linearity of the Plexxi architecture in terms of client port cost can also be seen in terms of power and cooling. In a Plexxi architecture, the performance of the network benefits when the controller tries to keep packets in the photonic portion of the network as much as possible, thus limiting silicon switch hops and incurring latency. Uniformed latency and uniformed power consumption per client power are benefits of the Plexxi architecture:
A question we often get is whether a Plexxi network requires a greenfield or can it be deployed in a brownfield. The answer is there are no greenfields. Plexxi networks have been deployed in a number of variations. We have had clients deploy Plexxi in the spine, while leaving the legacy ToR and server connections in place. We have had clients deploy Plexxi as a replacement strategy for the their leaf/spine network, thus collapsing a two tier or three tier network to a single tier. We have had clients deploy Plexxi between data centers providing a single hop, load-balanced fabric between data centers. Traditionally, most Plexxi customers connect our switches to legacy routers and switches using 10G or 40G ports. We have a handful of customers who have extended the Plexxi fabric via DWDM connections to legacy optical transport platforms.
Another question I have been asked is whether or not our photonic fabric is proprietary. The way to think about our photonic fabric is to compare it to the fabric modules found in traditional core and spine switches. What we have done at Plexxi is to take the backplane capacity in spine/core switches found in multi-tier networks and distribute that capacity into each switch. When you add port capacity, you add fabric capacity. Five years ago this type of network design was not possible, only with the advent of the modern controller architecture coupled with low cost, multi-path photonic interconnects has it become possible. The design objective of a Plexxi network is to manage the network as a resource pool that can be correlated with the needs of compute and storage. We believe that networking is entering the era of plenty and that networks built with rich amounts of path diversity are building blocks of the new networks. We believe this because that has been direction of compute and storage. Compute and storage have entered the era of plenty and it is time for the network to enter the era of plenty as well. The era of plenty for networking will be built using a controller architecture because a controller architecture combined with photonics, merchant silicon and Linux, is the best means to deliver the following benefits:
- Simplicity: Single tier photonic network
- High Utilization: Load balanced L2 fabric
- Controller Architecture: Unified view of network fabric
- Uniformed Low Latency: Direct connectivity
- Faster Failure Handling: Pre-computed forward topologies that converge rapidly to target optimum
- Elastic Network Capacity: Large-scale computation and path optimization through Controller enables fluidity of network capacity
- Reduced Cabling: Simplified network element deployment and insertion
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|Baking powder
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|1⁄2 Teaspoon
|Ground ginger
|1⁄2 Teaspoon
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs), softened
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Calories 3921 Calories from Fat 1457
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 168 g258.3%
Saturated Fat 40.9 g204.6%
Trans Fat 3.6 g
Cholesterol 423 mg141%
Sodium 2103.2 mg87.6%
Total Carbohydrates 579 g193%
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Protein 50 g100.4%
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Published: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 at 7:46 a.m.
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The capital murder trial of a Henderson County man charged with killing an Etowah couple began Monday with a day of emotional testimony.
The families of Phillip and Pam Holder sobbed as relatives recalled how the couple tried for years to help longtime friend Billy Raines, giving him a place to stay in their home and looking for jobs for him, up until he killed them in December 2002.
Raines, 29, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder for the Holders' deaths. He could face the death penalty if convicted.
Raines has pleaded innocent to the charges. His attorney, Vince Rabil, said Raines did not plan to kill the Holders but was high on crack cocaine and upset because the couple had asked him to leave their home.
Their deaths were "not a crime of malice and hate, but it's a crime of despair, passion," Rabil said during his opening statement.
Raines, who bowed his head and remained silent throughout much of the day, wiped tears from his eyes during testimony from Phillip Holder's mother, Patsy Holder of Mountain Home.
The mother recalled how she told her grandson, Dale, then 6 years old, that Raines killed his parents. The little boy wondered aloud if Raines, whom he adored, would go to heaven or hell, she said.
"Do you think God's going to forgive Billy?" the boy asked.
Raines bowed his head lower as Patsy Holder spoke, pressing his fingertips to his eyes. He sniffled and wiped his face with a tissue as relatives of the Holders, filling four rows in the courtroom, sobbed behind him.
Patsy Holder and her husband, Lester, raised Raines since he was about 12 years old. Raines and her son were best friends and as close as brothers, she said.
"He was just one of us," the mother said.
Raines was a good student in school and well-behaved, Patsy Holder said. She and her husband took him in after Raines' mother told her, "He can stay, and I don't care how long he stays," she recalled.
"I tried to be to Billy what a mother should be, but I didn't know I was going to lose both of mine by trying," Patsy Holder said.
Raines' attorneys, Rabil and Mike Klinkosum, described their client as an abused, neglected young man struggling with drug addiction and a troubled past. He has an extensive criminal record, mostly thefts, and was living with Phillip and Pam Holder after being released from prison. The slain couple, witnesses said, were the only ones willing to take him in.
Phillip Holder, 28, and Pamela Holder, 31, were found dead Dec. 11, 2002, in their Brickyard Road home. They were beaten in the head with a heavy wrench and shot with a .22-caliber rifle and .38-caliber handgun, prosecutors said.
Relatives described Phillip Holder as an avid hunter who always tried to help others. Pamela Holder was mildly retarded but sweet and hardworking, relatives said.
Early in the morning of Dec. 11, 2002, Raines was stopped by police in an Asheville Wal-Mart after he tried to buy a video game console with Pamela Holder's stolen credit card, said Assistant District Attorney Beth Dierauf. The Holders came to pick him up and declined to press charges, she said.
When the trio got back to the Holders' home, the couple told Raines he had to leave, Dierauf said. Raines went outside, smoked crack cocaine and then went back in the home and murdered the couple, she said.
He stole the couple's truck and several other items, including guns and credit cards, which he used to buy crack cocaine, Dierauf said. He returned to the home several hours later to steal more items to sell for drug money, she said.
The Holders' bodies were found that afternoon by family members, who were worried when the couple did not show up for work. Raines was arrested two days later in Greenville, S.C. He also is charged with armed robbery.
The trial continues at 9:30 a.m. today.
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|Publication number
|Publication type
|Publication date
|Jun 13, 1972
|Filing date
|May 14, 1970
|Priority date
|May 14, 1970
|Publication number
|Garcia Banancio
|Original Assignee
|Garcia Banancio
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (4), Referenced by (5), Classifications (9)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
United States Patent [4 June 13, 1972 Garcia [54] CONNECTING DEVICE [72] inventor: Banancio Garcia, 2691 1-1011 Road Northwest, North Canton, Ohio 44720 '22 Filed: May 14, 1970 [21] Appl. No.: 37,208
[52] US. Cl. ..339/92 M, 339/151 M, 24/205.l3 R
51 Int. Cl. ..H0lr 13/54, A44b 19/02 [58] Field ofSearch ..339/l5l M, 49 R,61 M, 75, 339/92; 24/205.l3 R
[56] References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,867,879 1/1959 Urban et al. .24/205.l6 R
2,371,309 3/1945 Norton .-..24/205.l3 X
2,873,741 2/1959 Donaldson.. ..l28/303 Avery ..339/15l M Primary Examiner-Marvin A. Champion Assistant Examiner-Lawrence .1. Staab Atrorney-Frease & Bishop ABSTRACT A connecting device for joining together two panels end-toend of various sizes and materials. Each panel includes a plu- V against the bottom connecting bar when in closed position. A
slide member is provided with two pairs of slidable cams to operate the toggle arms which are provided with corresponding cams. The device is connected and disconnected by opposite movement of the slide member with the cams pivoting the toggle arms open or closed by engaging mating cam surfaces.
1' 4 Claims, 14 Drawing Figures PATENTEDJnx 12 19. 2
SHEET 10F 2 IN VE N TOR. Bammcio 61am PATENTEDJun 1 3 m2 sum 2 or 2 INVENTOR. Bwnancio Garcia m u M M 1 o o o HIE n X E f m a 1 a 3 a z m I||IVA J FLL9Y13 ATTORNEYS BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The invention relates to a new and convenient connecting fastening means.
2. Description of the Prior Art It is often desirable to prewire various portions of electrical control circuits, switching circuits, etc., and later join them together into a completed unit. Many types of connecting means have been used, both for structurally and electrically joining various panels together. These connections are accomplished in a number of ways, such as by soldering complementary wires directly together or. to a common binding post. These known methods do'not provide a convenient means for quickly separating all of the connections and reconnecting them if desired.
Other known electrical connections utilize a bayonet type arrangement in which the wires on one panel are each connected to a slender metal finger or jack which is inserted into a receiving plug mounted on another panel. Electrical connection is made but other means for structural connections must be provided if needed by the particular equipment.
There are countless numbers of structural connectors for various styles and panel materials. Most of the connectors can be used only once and must be discarded if removed when the panels are disjoined. Other connectors are difficult to install and remove, requiring considerable time and expense. Likewise, some of the connectors are structurally strong preventing the panels from pulling apart but provide-insufficient strength against twisting force.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Objectives of the invention include providing a connecting device for structurally joining together two panels of various styles and materials; providing a connecting device which can be repeatedly used for connecting and disconnecting panels without requiring additional parts or destroying existing parts; providing a connecting device whereby a single operating movement will disengage or engage a plurality of connecting members; providing a connecting device which may also be used for joining together prewired electrical panels both structurally and electrically; providing a device for energizing or de-energizing a number of electrical circuits in a single operation; and providing a new, convenient connecting device which can reduce construction and maintenance costs and which solves problems, satisfies needs, and obtains new results in the art. I
These objects and advantages are obtained by the connecting device construction of the present invention, the general nature of which may be stated as including a pair of elongated panel members; a series of toggle arm members pivotally mounted at one end along one edge of the elongated panel members, the toggle arms of one panel being alternately positioned with respect to the arm position of the opposite panel; each toggle arm being provided with engaging means at its freeend, the arms of one panel being located so that their ends overlap and engage the corresponding ends of the arms on the opposite panel; cam means on the arms for moving the toggle arms from engaged to disengaged position located adjacent the pivot of each toggle arm; and actuator means having complimentary cam means for operating the toggle arms from engaged to disengaged position.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS A preferred embodiment of the invention illustrative of the best mode in which applicant has contemplated applying the principles is set forth in the following description and shown in the drawings, and is particularly and distinctly pointed out and set forth in the appended claims.
In the drawings,
FIG. I is a front elevation of the connecting device showing two electrically wired panels connected together;
FIG. 2 is an enlarged fragmentary frontelevation of the connecting device of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a top elevation of the connecting device shown in FIG. 2;
FIG. 4 is a rear elevation of the connecting device shown in FIG. '2;
FIG. 5 is an enlarged fragmentary sectional view, with parts broken away, taken on line 5-5, FIG. 3;
FIG. 6 is a perspective view of one of the toggle arms of the connecting device;
FIG. 7 is an enlarged sectional view taken on line 7--7, FIG.
FIG. 8 is an enlarged fragmentary elevation, partly in section, of the first two toggle arms in engaged position;
FIG. 9 is a sectional view taken on line 9-9, FIG. 2;
FIG. 10 is a sectional view taken on line10-10, FIG. 9;
FIG. 11 is a perspective view of the rear portion of the sliding cam of the connecting device.
FIG. 12 is a perspective view of the front portion of the sliding cam shown in FIG. 11;
FIG. 13 is a diagrammatic front view of the connecting device partially connected together; and
FIG. 14 is a diagrammatic rear view of the connecting device shown in FIG. 13.
Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the drawings.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT An electrical assembly indicated generally at l (FIG. '1) is shown utilizing the new connecting device. Assembly] includes a light panel 2 which may consist of a'group of individually wired lights 3 arranged on panelboard 4. Another panel 5 may consist of a selectorswitch 6 mounted on panel board 7 with related wiring (not shown) for controlling lights 3 on panel 2. Panels 2 and 5 are joined together, both electrically and structurally, by the new connecting device indicated generally at 8.
Device 8 (FIG. 2) includes two parallel rectangular sections 9 and 10 formed with vertical slots 11 extending nearly the entire length of sections 9 and 10. Sections 9 and 10 areheld in a parallel spaced relationship by upper and lower connecting bars 12 and 13, respectively. Bars 12 and 13 are each provided with slot 14 at the end adjacent panel 7 and a second slot 15 at the opposite end adjacent to panel 4 (FIG. 3).
Bar 12 is provided with a threaded opening 16 which may receive bolt 17, for purposes described more in detail below. Bar 13 has a generally triangular portion 18 projecting upwardly and generally aligned with bolt 17.
Section 10 has its upper portion located in elongated slots 14 of bars 12 and 13 and is rigidly secured therein by pins 19, or any other suitable means. Section 9 is formed with an upper and a lower notch 20 which engages pins 21 which extend across slot 15 formed in the ends of bars 12 and 13 (FIGS. 2 and 5).
A plurality of spaced toggle arms indicated at 22 are pivotally mounted along the inner edge of panel sections 9 and 10 by any suitable means such as pins 23 (FIGS. 2 and 4). Each toggle arm 22 (FIGS. 6 and 8) includes a generally elongated rectangular body portion 24. Hole 25 may be formed in its top surface 26 and a pin 27 may be provided, projecting from the bottom surface 28. Cams 29 and 30 extend ourwardly from one end of body 24 and form a groove 31 therebetween. Cam 29 is generally rectangular in shape having a flat end cam surface 32, and a curved top surface 33, whereas cam 30 has an inclined cam surface 34 extending slightly out beyond the plane of cam surface 32. Cam portions 29 and 30 are provided with means for mounting the toggle arms to sections 9 or 10, such as by holes 35 which receive a pin about which the arms may pivot.
Electrical conducting plates 36, formed with an opening 37, are attached by any suitable means to the top and bottom surfaces 26 and 28, respectively, of body 24. Wires 38 from switch 6 are selectively attached to plates 36. Attachment may be made by various means such as solder as indicated at 39. Similarly, wires 40 from lights 3 are selectively attached to plates 36 of toggle arms 22 mounted on panel 9.
Actuator bar indicated at 41 (FIG. 2 and 7) is comprised of two L-shaped arms 42 formed with openings 42a in the short leg portion thereof, which arms are slidably mounted in slots 11 of sections 9 and 10. Attachment means are provided on the long leg portion of arms 42, which may consist of a rectangular member 43 having a pin 44 partially embedded therein, attached to one leg portion. A similar rectangular member 45 is attached to the other arm 42 and is provided with an opening 46 for receiving the projecting end of pin 44.
A cam plate 47 is attached to the back surface of the short leg of L-shaped arms 42 by pins 48 or other fastening means. An ear 49 having a curved lower surface 50 projects laterally from cam 47 with a channel 51 being formed between ear 49 and flange 52. Channel 51 is provided with an opening 53 and a smaller opening 54 above and below opening 53 through which attaching pins 48 may be inserted.
Cam block 55 is inserted partially through slot 11 and is attached to cam 47. Cam 55 (FIG. 11) has a cut out portion 56 9 extending along one side and a curved ear 57 projecting laterally from the opposite side. A threaded opening 58 is formed in the center of cam 55 and a small hole 59 is formed above and below opening 58 for receiving pins 48. Screw 60 is inserted through aligned opening 42a and 53 in arm 42 and cam plate 47 respectively, and is threadably engaged with opening 58 in cam block 55. Means may be provided in the head of screw 60 for tightening, such as a hexagonal recess 61 adaptable for receiving an allen wrench. It should be understood that block 55 and plate 47 may be attached to slide bar 42 by any other suitable means or the assembly made of one or more components to facilitate convenient manufacture.
Connecting device 8 is shown in connected position in FIGS. 1, 2 and 4 joining together panels 2 and 5. In connected position, slide bar 41 will be located above toggle arms 22. Arms 22 are interlocked, by pins 27 being engaged in top holes 25 of the toggle bodies 24 (FIG. The plurality of arms 22 may be held parallel in this interlocked position by tightening tip 63 of bolt 17 into top hole of the uppermost arm 22 (FIG. 8). Conducting plate 36 attached to the bottom surface 28 of the lowermost arm 22 is held secure against the top surface of triangular portion 18 of lower connecting bar 13 by the action of bolt 17. The height of portion 18 is such that lower arm 22 will be in a parallel position when contacting portion 18.
In this locked position, panels 2 and 5 are securely interlocked preventing independent movement in any direction. Electrical connection is likewise achieved by the adjacent conducting plates 36 being pressed tightly together between bolt 17 and triangular portion 18. Portion 18 may also be made of a conducting material permitting attachment of a wire 38 (FIG. 4) to control another light 3 on panel 2.
In accordance with the present invention, any number of lights 3 or other electrical circuits or devices can be prewired on panel 4 with wires 40 being selectively connected to the conducting plates 36 of toggle arms 22 which are mounted on section 9 of connecting device 8, (right-hand side of FIG. 2). Panel 4 may be attached to section 9 by bolt 62 as shown, or section 9 may be made as an integral part of the end of panel 4. The control means (switch 6) for lights 3 is prewired on panel 4 with the wires 39 being selectively connected to plates 36 of toggle arms 22 mounted on section 10.
Disconnecting panel 2 from panel 5 is achieved by the action of slide bar 41 moving downward in slots 11 to the extreme lower end. Bolt 17 is first retracted from contacting top toggle arm 22 and withdrawn a sufficient distance to permit arm 22 to to pivot upward without striking tip 63 of bolt 17. As bar 41 moves downward (arrow A, FIG. 13) including cams 47 and 55, the square comer 64 of each cam 47 alternately contacts the inclined cam surface 34 causing the corresponding arm 22 to begin pivoting about pin 23, disengaging pin 27 from the lower adjacent toggle body 24. Projecting ear 49 following corner 64 continues to pivot arm 22 upward by contacting surface 34. Ear 49 pivots arm 22 upward in the opposite direction and avoid contacting the previously pivoted opposite arm.
Ear 49 of the cam 47 will contact surface 34 on topmost arm 22 just prior to opposite ear 49, respectively, contacting the next lower arm 22. This permits the upper arm 22 to begin pivoting upward with pin 27 becoming disengaged from hole 25 before the next lower arm 22 begins to pivot upward. Arms 22 pivot upward alternating between the arms mounted on section 10 and the arms mounted on section 9, as cams 47 moved downward.
After bar 41 has reached the bottom of slots 11 pivoting all toggle arms 22, sections 9 and 10 of device 8 can be separated. Pin 44 is slidably detached from opening 46 in rectangular member 45, and pins 21 are removed from notches 20 in section 9 completely separately connecting device 8.
Joining device 8 together is accomplished in the reverse manner as that described above for disconnecting the device. Pins 21 in connecting bars 12 and 13 are inserted into notches 20 of section 9 to align the device, and pin 44 is engaged in opening 46. Slide bar 41 is then moved upward in slots 11 including earns 47 and 55. As cam blocks 55 move upward (arrow B, FIG. 14), curved ears 57 contact the flat end surface 32 of cam arms 29 which are in an inclined position after being disconnected. Ears 57 pivot toggle arms 22 alternately downward to a generally parallel position, with opposite arms 22 alternately overlapping each other.
Cams 47 will also move upward with slide bar 41 and cam 55 in the direction of arrow B on the opposite side of sections 9 and 10 in slots 11. Projecting ear 49 being located on the top portion of cam 47 will pass cam surfaces 34 which are now in a vertical position (FIG. 13) prior to arms 22 pivoting downward by contact ear 57 which is located on the bottom portion ofcam 55 (FIG. 14).
This difference in elevation between ear 49 and 57 is necessary for the downward connecting movement (arrow A) of bar 41. Ear 57 will pass by surface 32 (FIG. 14) prior to ear 49 pivoting arms 22 (FIG. 13).
Thus, two panels can be separately wired and easily connected together, physically and electrically, by attaching each panel to one side of the connecting device. The panels can be separated and reconnected whenever desired with the two sides of the connecting device being reusable on different panels.
Although the new connecting device is illustrated as a means of connecting electrical circuits, it need not be limited to such application. The device can be used entirely for a structural connecting device with the two sides of device 8 being attached to construction panels of wood, steel, etc. This would enable temporary structures, such as office partitions, to be erected easily and quickly and later disassembled for reuse.
It should be understood also that the device of the present invention may be used as a connector of one heavy-duty high amperage circuit. In such case, the whole device would be constructed of electrically conducting material and panels 2 and 5 connected respectively to cables or wires which are to be joined together.
Similarly, medium power circuits could be connected together by providing alternate toggle arms of conducting and insulating material.
Furthermore, many other possible uses could be achieved by using the device of the present invention by varying the size and material of the various components included in the construction. For example, in employing the specific construction shown in the drawings, telephone circuits, computer circuits or control circuits for industrial machinery can easily be joined, and later disconnected if desired.
In all applications, the device is structurally strong, preventing any lateral movement by the clamping effect of bolt 17 against triangular portion 18 (or other clamping means) through arms 22 with their interlocking pins. Longitudinal or twisting movement is prevented by the engagement of sections 9 and-l0 in slots 14 and 15 of connecting bars 12 and 13,
respectively, and the joining together of sections 9 and by movement of slide bar 41.
Accordingly, the new connecting device construction provides a new and convenient manner whereby two panels may be joined together structurally; provides a connecting device for joining together one or more electrical circuits that have been prewired on the two separate panels; provides a connecting device which can be operated easily and quickly to disconnect or connect panels; provides a connecting device which is reusable for connecting and disconnecting two panels; and provides a device which is relatively simple, efiective and safe in use, which may be quickly assembled for any type of panel and which achieves the objectives and solves problems existing in the art.
ln the foregoing description certain terms have been used for brevity, clearness and understanding; but no unnecessary limitations are to be implied therefrom beyond the requirements of the prior art, because such terms are used for descriptive purposes and are intended to be broadly construed.
Moreover, the description and illustration of the invention is by way of example, and the scope of the invention is not limited to the exact details shown or described.
Having now described the features, discoveries and principles of the invention, the manner in which the new connecting device is constructed and used, the characteristics of the new construction, and the advantageous, new and useful results obtained; the new and useful structures, devices, elements, ar-
rangements, parts, and combinations, are set forth in the appended'claims.
I claim:
1. Connecting device construction including a pair of panels, each panel having an inner edge and an elongated slot formed adjacent to and parallel with said inner edge and extending through said panel; a plurality of toggle arms, each having a cam end and an engaging end, pivotally mounted for movement from engaged to disengaged position along the inner edge of the panels; the toggle arms on one panel being alternately positioned with respect to the toggle arms on the opposite panel so that the engaging ends overlap when in engaged position; cam means having an engaging cam surface and a disengaging cam surface at the cam end of each toggle arm; actuator means movable along said elongated slot and having actuator cam means including an engaging portion and a disengaging portion; the actuator engaging portion engaging the engaging surface of the toggle arm cam means to pivot the toggle arms to engaged position; and the disengaging portion contacting the disengaging surface of the toggle arm cam means to pivot the toggle anns to disengaged position.
2. Connecting device construction as defined in claim 17 in which the panels include alignment means located to position the panels for engagement.
3. Connecting device construction as defined in claim 2 in which said alignment means extend between the tops and bottoms of said panels; and in which said alignment means includes clamping means engageable with the uppermost and lowermost toggle arms when said upper and lowermost toggle arms are in engaged position for retaining the toggle arms in engaged position.
4. Connecting device construction as defined in claim 3 in which said clamping means includes a portion of the bottom alignment means; in which said bottom portion supports the lowermost toggle arm when in engaged positlon; and in which the top alignment means includes an adjustable member extending from said top alignment means for engaging the uppermost toggle arm.
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|Filing date
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|Jan 13, 1959
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|Slide fastener
|Nov 23, 1954
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|U.S. Classification
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|International Classification
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