Patch panel

Claim 1

AN AIR-TIGHT ELECTRICAL PATCH PANEL FOR USE WITH A BULKHEAD PROVIDED WITH AN APERTURE AND ADAPTED FOR SEPARATING HIGH DIFFERENTIAL PRESSURES, SAID PANEL COMPRISING: AN INTEGRALLY-CAST BODY PORTION FORMED OF A MOLDABLE DIELECTRIC MATERIAL SIZED AND SHAPED TO SEALABLY ENGAGE SAID APERTURE; MEANS FOR REMOVABLY SECURING SAID BODY PORTION TO SAID BULKHEAD, A PLURALITY OF SPACED-APART RECTANGULAR CONDUCTIVEMETAL PATCH INSERTS ARRANGED SIDE-BY-SIDE IN A PARALLEL ARRANGEMENT IN SAID BODY PORTION WITH SAID INTEGRAL BODY PORTION MATERIAL FILLING THE SPACES BETWEEN SAID INSERTS, THE INSERTS HAVING THEIR OUTWARDLY-ORIENTED FACE PORTIONS EACH DISPOSED IN A PLANE AND SAID INTEGRALLY CAST BODY PORTION MATERIAL ALSO PROVIDING A CONTINUOUS COVERING FOR ONE SIDE OF THE PANEL WHEREBY THE OUTWARDLY ORIENTED INSERT FACES ON SAID ONE SIDE OF THE PANEL ARE COMPLETELY COVERED BY SAID INTEGRALLY CAST MATERIAL, A LAYER OF MOLDABLE DIELECTRIC MATERIAL COVERING THE OPPOSITE FACES OF SAID INSERTS, SAID PANEL BEING PROVIDED WITH TERMINAL SOCKET OPENINGS EXTENDING FROM BOTH ITS FACE PORTIONS INTERIORLY INTO EACH OF SAID INSERTS, AND EACH INSERT HAVING AT LEAST TWO SOCKETS ON EACH OF ITS FACES AND THE SOCKETS OF ONE FACE BEING STAGGERED RELATIVE TO THE SOCKETS OF THE OPPOSITE FACE FOR PERMITTING A MINIMIZING OF THE PATCH PANEL THICKNESS, EACH OF SAID INSERT SOCKETS PROJECTING INWARDLY A DISTANCE GREATER THAN ONE-HALF THE WIDTH OF ITS INSERT AND BEING CLOSED AT ITS INNER END, AND EACH OF SAID INSERT SOCKETS BEING ALIGNED WITH A PANEL SOCKET FOR RECEIVING A TERMINAL PLUG.