Title: Method for handling connectors

Abstract: An array of bent wire connectors to grip the edge of a printed circuit board is held in spaced, opposed grooves on facing side walls of a holder so that the whole array can be affixed to a mother board as a unit by soldering the free ends of the connectors in place. The grooves can be preformed to hold the connectors in the array, or they can be formed in situ by heating a jig with the connectors assembled in a similar array of holes in the surface of the jig and then pressing a thermoplastic holder onto the connectors. The heated connectors soften the contiguous portions of the holder, and after the latter is in place, the assembly is allowed to cool so that the thermoplastic material can reharden in gripping relation to the connectors. A bar can separate gripping portions of the connectors to align them and give them a pre-set position to receive the edge of the printed circuit board easily.

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Inventors: Minter, Jerry B. (Morristown, NJ, US)

Application Number: 504233
Filing Date: 1974-09-09
Publication_date: 1976-03-02
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Primary Class(es): 29/850 29/741, 29/881
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US Patent Ref:

3132913	May, 1964	Pohl	29/629.
3340440	Sep, 1967	Minter	339/17.
3496634	Feb, 1970	Kurtz et al.	174/68.
3524234	Aug, 1970	Dickson et al.	29/625.
3771101	Nov, 1973	Elkins	317/101.
3807045	Apr, 1974	Bennett et al.	29/629.

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Primary Examiner: Lanham, C. W.
Assistant Examiner: Duzan, James R.
Attorney: Gillette; Donald P.