Electricity: circuit makers and breakers – Electric switch details – Cases and bases
Patent
1996-07-16
1998-08-04
Luebke, Renee S.
Electricity: circuit makers and breakers
Electric switch details
Cases and bases
H01H 2108
Patent
active
057880590
ABSTRACT:
The protective electrical switch cover is in the form of a generally flat, flexible, resilient plate of extended surface area and with memory. Preferably, the cover is of elastomeric electrically insulative plastic and/or rubber and is unitary. It includes a generally central, hollow, protruding nipple adapted to receive the arm of an electrical switch over which the cover is to be mounted, as by an adhesive layer on the rear surface of the cover. The nipple is surrounded by a number of spaced encircling folds or rings which permit the nipple to be readily flexed in a plurality of directions in order to operate the switch arm. Thus, through the nipple, the switch arm can be rotated or flipped in a desired direction and can be pushed in and pulled out, depending on the type of switch arm involved. Moreover, the encircling folds can be depressed at a desired location to operate the switch arm if it is of the rocker type. The assembly of the present invention includes the cover mounted over an electrical switch having the protruding switch arm. The mounting area is outside of the area of the nipple and rings.
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Luebke Renee S.
Posta Jr. John J.
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