An interconnection between a tube and a plate in which said tube is received in an opening in the plate and said tube and plate are movable radially with respect to each other, said tube and plate being radially movable with respect to the tube axis. A pair of washers are disposed on opposite sides of the plate around the tube and over the plate opening with a pair of projections on the tube holding the washers against said plate. One of said washers has a sleeve engageable with the other washer...

Units of a data processing system intercommunicate on ring connections of shift registers. A message placed in one shift register stage is advanced from stage to stage until it is removed at a destination stage or at an intermediate stage. Several rings are interconnected in a toroidal arrangement so that a message can be transferred at an intermediate stage from one ring to an adjacent ring. Logic is provided for advantageously routing the message between the initial stage and the destination s...

An interconnection for a convertible top cover of a marine craft includes cooperating integral members of the windshield and cover. The interconnection is shaped to prevent air pressure-induced disconnection of the interconnection.

To interconnect structural elements, such as walls, wall studs, door frames and the like and permit relative movement of the interconnected elements, for example due to differential expansion upon temperature or humidity changes, the elements to be interconnected are formed with matching projections and recesses which are shaped to be interlocked, and a liner, or layer of insulating material, such as plastic, fibrous material, felt or the like, preferably fire resistant, is located between the i...

An interconnection element system for rigidly interconnecting substantially hollow, profiled tubes in simple manner by means of concealed interconnection elements. The interconnection elements clamp an extending end of one of the profiled tubes against the other tube, and the two profiled tubes are locked against each other by means of a wedge introduced into the first profile tube and engaging the interconnection elements.

Electrical interconnection and contacting system comprising an insulator flexible plastic, most preferably elastomeric material substrate having at least one layer of electrically conductive elastomeric material embedded therein. The present invention is useful in coupling integrated circuits or the like together or to other circuitry.

A system for making up tows from a plurality of barges. The system substantially prevents relative lateral movement between adjacent barges and/or relative movement along a line parallel to the path of travel thereof while allowing certain freedom of movement therebetween incident to changes in draft, etc. The system includes fitting the bow and stern of adjacent barges with first and second protruding members. The first protruding member has a vertically extending slot therein, and the second p...

A device in which at least two separate electrical connections are made between a first member and a second member. The first member has at least two surfaces with at least one conductive element on each surface. These conductive elements are insulated from one another. The second member is mounted in an aperture of the first member. Electrically conductive regions of the second member, insulated from one another, are connected to the conductive elements of the first member.

An optical fiber interconnection mechanism has a casing frame and a plurality of housing units vertically stacked therein. Each of the housing units has a top plate, a bottom plate, two opposed side plates and a back plate with a plurality of fiber guide ring members. A protecting cover plate is removably mounted on the front of the corresponding housing. At least one optical terminal plate is arranged horizontally between the two opposed side plates and has a plurality of optical sockets for ma...

Disclosed is a wafer substrate for integrated circuits (1) which by itself may be made either of conductive or non-conductive material. This substrate carries two planes or layers of patterned metal (19, 20), thus providing two principal levels of interconnection. An insulation layer (21) is placed between the metal layers and also between the lower metal layer and the substrate if the latter is conductive. Connections between the metal layers or between the metal layer and the substrate can be ...