Title: Tool to insert and extract printed circuit boards into and out of apparatus housing connectors

Abstract: An insertion-extraction tool to apply forces with mechanical advantage in the insertion and extraction of printed circuit boards into and out of an apparatus housing includes connecting means to secure the tool to the apparatus housing and engaging means to link with the printed circuit board being inserted and extracted.

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Inventors: Cauceglia, Walter B. (Wayne, NJ, US)
Dieterle, Walter H. (Sparta, NJ, US)
Fay, Gerald B. (Cranford, NJ, US)

Application Number: 927104
Filing Date: 1978-07-24
Publication_date: 1980-09-23
Assignee: Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated (Murray Hill, NJ)
Primary Class(es): 294/15 29/278, 29/764, 294/34
Other Classes:
US Patent Ref:

3137065	Jun, 1964	Harris	294/34.
3178214	Apr, 1965	Tinkeleberg	294/15.
3484129	Dec, 1969	Askren	294/15.
3617083	Nov, 1971	Koppensteinby	294/15.
3903596	Sep, 1975	Stein	294/15.
4152827	May, 1979	Walton	29/764.

Other Refs:
Primary Examiner: Marbert, James B.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney: Steinmetz; Alfred G.