System providing power supply connections and interconnections for logic modules

Claim 1

A control system for automated industrial equipment, said system comprising a support member provided with a plurality of parallel socket-like elongated channels of substantially U-shaped cross-section, a plurality of logic modules detachably mounted on said channels, power supply conductors and interconnecting conductors, each of said logic modules having first and second end faces and first and second side walls, first connecting members fixedly mounted on said first end faces and detachably attached to the pOwer supply conductors, second connecting members fixedly mounted on said second end faces and detachably attached to the interconnecting conductors, positioning and clamping means on said first side walls, each of said socket-like elongated channels having a bottom and first and second resilient side limbs, each of said side limbs having inner and outer surfaces, a bottom end and an upper end, wall portions projecting from the bottom end and from the upper end of each side limb substantially perpendicular thereto, said power supply conductors being fixedly mounted in the bottom of the channels, further positioning and clamping means on the inner surfaces of said first limbs, said further positioning and clamping means cooperating with the positioning and clamping means of the logic modules, the said projecting wall portions of each channel cooperating with the projecting wall portions of other channels to form a substantially closed duct wherein the said interconnecting conductors are grouped together.