Connector assembly for door partition

Claim 1

IN A PARTITION STRUCTURE INCLUDING A SERIES OF PANELS MOVABLE ON GUIDE MEANS BETWEEN EDGE TO EDGE ABUTTING AND SIDE BY SIDE STACKED POSITIONS, SAID PANELS HAVING FLOOR SEAL MEMBERS PNEUMATICALLY SHIFTABLE INTO CONTACTING RELATION WITH THE FLOOR, AN AIR CONNECTION ASSEMBLY FOR LINKING THE PNEUMATIC ASSEMBLY OF ONE PANEL TO THAT OF AN ADJACENT PANEL FOR AUTOMATIC CONNECTION WHEN SAID PANELS ARE MOVED TO ABUTTING POSITION, AND DISCONNECTION WHEN SAID PANELS ARE SHIFTED APART, COMPRISING A MALE CONNECTOR MEMBER MOUNTED ON ONE SAID PANEL, A FEMALE CONNECTOR MEMBER MOUNTED ON THE NEXT ADJACENT PANEL AND POSITIONED TO RECEIVE SAID MALE MEMBER WHEN SAID PANELS ARE MOVED TO ABUTTING RELATION, ONE OF SAID CONNECTOR MEMBERS BEING MOUNTED FOR LIMITED LONGITUDINAL MOVEMENT WITH RESPECT TO ITS SUPPORTING PANEL, LOCKING MEANS MOUNTED ON THE OTHER SAID CONNECTOR MEMBER AND RECIPROCABLE LONGITUDINALLY WITH RESPECT TO SAID PANELS BETWEEN LOCKING AND RELEASING POSITIONS OF SAID CONNECTOR MEMBERS, FOR LOCKING SAID CONNECTOR MEMBERS IN THE CONNECTED POSITION AGAINST SEPARATING FORCES EXERTED BETWEEN SAID CONNECTOR MEMBERS WHEN SAID LOCKING MEANS IS IN LOCKING POSITION, GRIPPER MEANS CARRIED BY THE PANEL HAVING SAID ONE CONNECTOR MEMBER FOR DRAWING SAID LOCKING MEANS TO SAID RELEASING POSITION AS SAID PANELS ARE MOVED APART, SAID LONGITUDINALLY MOVABLE CONNECTOR MEMBER AND SAID GRIPPER MEANS PROVIDING A SLIP FIT WITH SAID LOCKING MEANS WHEREBY, UPON SEPARATING MOVEMENT OF AN ADJACENT PAIR OF PANELS FROM SAID EDGE TO EDGE ABUTTING POSITION, SAID ONE CONNECTOR MEMBER WILL NOT MOVE RELATIVE TO SAID OTHER CONNECTOR MEMBER UNTIL SAID GRIPPER MEANS HAS MOVED SAID LOCKING MEMBER TO THE RELEASING POSITION THEREOF, FURTHER SEPARATING MOVEMENT OF SAID PANELS RELEASING SAID GRIPPER MEANS FROM SAID LOCKING MEANS.