Plug-in type control device panel assembly with angularly contrasting contact portions

Claim 1

IN A CONTROL DEVICE PANEL BOARD, THE COMBINATION COMPRISING: (A) A SUPPORT; (B) AN ELONGATED BUSBAR SUPPORTED IN INSULATED RELATIONSHIP ON SAID SUPPORT; (C) A CONTACT ARM ELECTRICALLY CONENCTED ADJACENT ONE END THEREOF TO SAID BUSBAR AND EXTENDING GENERALLY NORMALLY THERETO, SAID CONTACT ARM HAVING ADJACENT ITS OTHER END A BLADE PORTION WITH A MAJOR TRANSVERSE DIMENSION AND A MINOR TRANSVERSE DIMENSION, THE PLANE OF THE MAJOR DIMENSION EXTENDING GENERALLY NORMALLY TO SAID SUPPORT AND TO SAID BUSBAR; AND (D) A READILY ENGAGEABLE CONTACT ELEMENT ON SAID BLADE PORTION ADJACENT SAID OTHER END, SAID ELEMENT HAVING A GENERALLY U-SHAPED CENTRAL PORTION WITH RESILIENTLY DEFLECTABLE LEGS ENGAGING OPPOSITE SIDES OF SAID BLADE PORTION, SAID ELEMENT ALSO HAVING GENERALLY PLANAR WING PORTIONS EXTENDING OPPOSITELY FROM SAID CENTRAL PORTION AND EXTENDING GENERALLY PARALLEL TO SAID BUSBAR AND NORMALLY TO SAID BLADE PORTION MAJOR PLANE, THE OPPOSITE SURFACES OF EACH OF SAID PLANAR WING PORTIONS PROVIDING A PAIR OF CONTACT SURFACES EXTENDING GENERALLY PARALLEL TO SAID BUSBAR AND GENERALLY NORMALLY TO SAID MAJOR PLANE, SUCH OF SAID WING PORTIONS BEING ADAPTED TO RECEIVE A CONTACT SOCKET EXTENDING TRANSVERSELY OF AN ASSOCIATED CIRCUIT BREAKER AND SAID BLADE PORTION BEING ADAPTED TO RECEIVE A SOCKET EXTENDING LONGITUDINALLY OF A CIRCUIT BREAKER TO PROVIDE ELECTRICAL CONTACT THEREFOR TO SAID BUSBAR.