US PATENT SUBCLASS 439 / 649
.~.~.~ Unit includes plural receptacles with each having bayonet-coupling contact

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625  DF  WITH INSULATION OTHER THAN CONDUCTOR SHEATH {10}
626  DF  .~ Plural-contact coupling part {7}
638  DF  .~.~ Two or more plural-contact coupling parts combined in one integral unit {6}
649.~.~.~ Unit includes plural receptacles with each having bayonet-coupling contact

DEFINITION

Classification: 439/649

Unit includes plural receptacles with each having bayonet-coupling contact:

(under subclass 638) Device wherein the single unitary structure has embodied therein a plurality of plural-contact coupling parts in the form of receptacles, each receptacle has a contact disposed with a recess extending therein, which contact or recess of each of the receptacles has an abutment extending circumferentially about the longitudinal axis along which the receptacle is intended to be coupled to a mating plural-contact plug having a contact which itself extends or which has a pin or projection thereon which extends radially of the longitudinal axis along which the receptacle and plug are intended to be coupled, and wherein each receptacle and its mating plug are retained in coupled relationship either by the radially extending contact itself, or by the radially extending pin or projection on the contact, being received behind the circumferentially extending abutment of the receptacle, the engaging motion being first along the longitudinal coupling axis and then a partial turning about said coupling axis.