Distributing line and connector arrangements for electric power supply systems

Claim 1

A DISTRIBUTING LINE AND CONNECTOR ARRANGEMENT FOR A POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM, COMPRISING AT LEAST ONE TUBULAR CASING HAVING AT LEAST A FLAT LONGITUDINAL SURFACE PROVIDED WITH A PLURALITY OF LONGITUDINALLY SPACED KEYHOLE-LIKE APERTURES, BARREL-LIKE INSULATORS ARRANGED IN SAID CASING AND EACH HAVING ONE END FACE DIRECTED TOWARD A RESPECTIVE APERTURE, EACH OF SAID INSULATORS HAVING AN AXIAL RECESS OF SIMILAR KEYHOLE-LIKE CROSS-SECTION STARTING AT SAID ONE END FACE, EACH OF SAID INSULATORS BEING PROVIDED WITH PERIPHERAL CIRCULAR GROOVE FORMATIONS AND WITH A PLURALITY OF LATERAL OPENINGS LOCATED, RESPECTIVELY, IN THE SAME PLANES AS SAID PERIPHERAL CIRCULAR GROOVE FORMATIONS AND COMMUNICATING WITH THE LATTER AND SAID RECESS, EACH OF SAID INSULATORS BEING ADAPTED FOR LIMITED ANGULAR DISPLACEMENT WITHIN SAID CASING BETWEEN A FIRST POSITION WHEREIN SAID RECESS THEREOF IS IN REGISTRY WITH THE ASSOCIATED APERTURE AND A SECOND POSITION WHEREIN SAID RECESS THEREOF IS OUT OF REGISTRY WITH THE ASSOCIATED APERTURE WHILE SAID OPENINGS ARE OPPOSITE TO THE SIDE WALLS OF SAID TUBULAR CASING, A SET OF PARALLEL CONDUCTOR BARS EXTENDING LENGTHWISE THROUGH SAID TUBULAR CASING, EACH OF SAID BARS ENGAGING IN A RESPECTIVE CIRCULAR GROOVE FORMATION OF THE SEQUENTIAL INSULATORS AND BEING SUPPORTED THEREBY, A CONNECTOR MEMBER HAVING A KEY-LIKE PIN SELECTIVELY INSERTABLE IN SAID APERTURES AND THE REGISTERING RECESSES, AND SPRING-URGED CONTACTS PROTRUDING FROM SAID PIN AND LOCATED THEREON FOR REGISTERING WITH SAID OPENINGS WHEN SAID PIN IS INSERTED IN SAID REGISTERING APERTURE AND RECESS, WHEREBY WHEN SAID INSERTED PIN AND THE ASSOCIATED BARREL ARE SIMULTANEOUSLY ANGULARLY DISPLACED FROM SAID FIRST POSITION OF THE LATTER INTO SAID SECOND POSITION THEREOF, EACH OF SAID CONTACTS COMES INTO ENGAGEMENT WITH A RESPECTIVE ONE OF SAID CONDUCTOR BARS.