Printed circuit board support

Claim 1

A printed circuit board support of integral plastic construction comprising a head and downwardly extending body, said body having a mounting portion and retainer portion where said mounting portion is designed to be inserted into a polygonal aperture of a mounting panel and where said retainer portion is designed to be inserted in a mounting aperture of a printed circuit board, said head having a larger cross sectional dimension than said polygonal aperture and having an anti-rotational section formed on its undersurface, said anti-rotational section having a cross sectional shape the same as but slightly smaller than said polygonal aperture and having a thickness less than one third the thickness of said mounting panel, said retainer portion including abutment means for engaging one surface of said printed circuit board which faces said mounting panel and resilient retaining means that yields upon insertion through said mounting aperture of said printed circuit board and that returns to original position thereafter to bear against the opposite surface to said one surface of said printed circuit board, and said mounting portion includes a stem integrally connected in a normal relation to the center of said anti-rotational section and a pair of symmetrically disposed resilient arms extending in a diverging relation away from said stem in a direction toward said head and having outer free ends converging towards said stem, said outer free ends being spaced a small distance from said anti-rotational secton whereby said resilient arms yield resiliently upon insertion through said polygonal aperture and thereafter return toward the initial position to cause said free ends to engage the back said of said panel to mount said support in said panel.