Card guide

Claim 1

A circuit board edge guide mount designed to be individually supported on inside facing opposite walls of spaced parallel sideplates to provide insertion guidance for and mounting of the opposite edges of circuit boards mounted between and generally transversing the space between the sideplates, including: a guide mount of flexible material having a longitudinally extended back portion from a board edge entrance end to a bottom end; first index means adjacent the entrance end; second index means adjacent the bottom end; opposite sides extending out from said back portion generally in spaced parallel relation through most of the length of said guide mount and presenting card edge opposite side engaging parallel edges; with board edge entrance ends of said opposite sides formed outwardly to present a ramped board edge entrance guide throat at the board edge entrance end of the guide mount; wherein, said first index means is a bent over position indexing and mount tab at the board edge entrance end of the guide mount for position indexing and mounting insertion in a guide mount indexing and mounting slot provided therefor in a sideplate; said guide mount is mounted on sideplates in turn mounted on a bottom circuit plate including position indexing openings; and indexing projections in the form of extensions from said sideplates provided with guide mount and sideplate assemblies for precise position indexing of said guide mount and sideplate assemblies upon index and mounting insertion of said index projections into said indexing openings of said bottom circuit plate.