Mosaic board with enclosing frontal panel

Claim 1

A component system for constructing control panels of the mosaic type in which elements having two different front shapes can be inserted to form a flush panel surface, in which all elements are open rearwardly and in which empty components can be capped by a detachable front panel comprising: a rectangular open-faced frame having two like parallel long sides and two like parallel short sides, the long sides being twice as long as the short sides, the long sides having a centrally located seating aparture, the seating apartures being so located that when a partition is inserted therein, the frame is divided into two generally cubical volumes, each of the long sides having two like openings and each of the short sides having a single opening for receiving an element inserted into the frame; a partition shaped to snap-fit into said seating apartures and having a like opening for receiving an element inserted into one of the generally cubical volumes of the frame; and a front panel which is detachably securable to a face of the frame and which has a rearwardly extending ledge that abuts the sides of the frame when the front panel is secured thereto.