Patchboard assembly

Claim 1

IN A PATCHBOARD ASSEMBLY HAVING A FIXED INSULATING TERMINAL PANEL PROVIDED WITH A PLURALITY OF SPACED CONDUCTIVE TERMINALS ADAPTED TO BE CONNECTED TO AN ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT, AND A MOVABLE JUMPER BOARD FORMED WITH A PLURALITY OF APERTURES AND BEING SELECTIVELY SHIFTABLE TO AN OPERATIVE POSITION IN SIDE-BY-SIDE RELATIONSHIP WITH SAID PANEL WHERE SAID APERTURES ALIGN WITH SAID TERMINALS, SAID JUMPER BOARD HAVING A SUBSTANTIALLY FLAT JUMPER MOUNTING SURFACE FACING OPPOSITELY FROM SAID PANEL; A COVER REMOVABLY SECURED ONLY TO SAID JUMPER BOARD ON THE SIDE THEREOF OPPOSITE FROM SAID PANEL TO FORM A SUBSTANTIALLY CONFINED SPACE WITH SAID JUMPER BOARD, A RESILIENT PAD CARRIED BY SAID COVER AND BEING DISPOSED IN SAID CONFINED SPACE TO PROVIDE A FLAT DEFORMABLE SURFACE FACING SAID JUMPER MOUNTING SURFACE AND EXTENDING IN SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL RELATION THEETO; A PLURALITY OF JUMPERS MOUNTED IN A SELECTED PATTERN ON SAID JUMPER BOARD AND BEING FEEE OF INTERLOCK THEREWITH, EACH OF SAID JUMPERS COMPRISING: A PAIR OF PARALLEL SPACED APART CONDUCTIVE CONTACT PINS SLIDABLY EXTENDING THROUGH SEPARATE ONES OF SAID APERTURES FOR CONTACT WITH ALIGNING ONE OF SAID TERMINALS IN SUBSTANTIALLY PERPENDICULAR RELATIONSHIP TO SAID JUMPER MOUNTING SURFACE, ABUTMENT SHOULDERS ON SAID CONTACT PINS ENGAGING SAID JUMPER MOUNTING SURFACE TO LIMIT THE DISPLACEMENT OF THE JUMPER INWARDLY TOWARD SAID PANEL, A RIGID INSULATING CROSSPIECE BRIDGING AND FIXEDLY JOINING SID CONTACT PINS AS A UNIT AND BEING DISPOSED IN SAID CONFINED SPACE, A WIRE EMBEDDED IN SAID CROSSPIECE AND ELECTRICALLY INTERCONNECTIONG SAID CONTACT PINS, SAID CROSSPIECE HAVING A FLAT SURFACE CONTAINED IN A PLANE EXTENDING NORMAL TO THE AXES OF SAID CONTACT PINS AND ABUTTINGLY ENGAGING SAID RESILIENT PAD, THE SPACING OF SAID SURFACE OF SAID PAD FROM SAID JUMPER MOUNTING SURFACE BEING SLIGHTLY LESS THAN THE SPACING OF SAID SURFACE OF SAID CROSSPIECE FROM SAID JUMPER MOUNTING SURFACE TO ENABLE THE APPLICATION OF A UNIFORMLY DISTRIBUTED PRESSURE TO SAID CROSSPIECE BY MOUNTING SAID COVER ON SAID JUMPER BOARD FOR RETAINING EACH OF SAID JUMPERS IN PLACE WITH SAID ABUTMENT SHOULDERS ENGAGING SAID JUMPER BOARD AND SAID CONTACT PINS INTIMATELY CONTACTING ASSOCIATED ONES OF SAID TERMINALS.