Electricity: circuit makers and breakers – Electric switch details – Actuators
Patent
1982-01-29
1983-12-06
Marcus, Stephen
Electricity: circuit makers and breakers
Electric switch details
Actuators
16DIG13, H01H 320
Patent
active
044195567
ABSTRACT:
An extension control device and a tubing member usable therewith for use with a wall-mounted toggle switch assembly having a switch with a protruding lever. The control device has an elongated member with a lower or distal end portion graspable by a user of the device and a tubing member connected to an upper end portion of the elongated member. The tubing member has a proximal end with two spaced apart pronged portions protruding from a hollow tubular portion. The switch lever is insertable into the hollow tubular portion so that the hollow tubular portion releasably grips the switch lever. Should the cavity of the tubular portion be greater than the exterior circumference of the switch lever, one or both of the pronged portions are inserted into the cavity to reduce its dimensions. Alternatively, the tubing member has a flat proximal end, and all or a portion of a split ring is insertable into the internal cavity of the tubing member to reduce its size. In both versions, a notch portion is formed in the tubing member intermediate its ends so that an upper portion of the tubing member is angularly movable with respect to a lower portion of the tubing member. Up and down movement of the elongated member results in corresponding movement of the lower portion of the tubing member so that the upper portion is angularly moved to thereby move the switch between on and off positions. The invention further provides a method of making the tubing member used with the extension control device.
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Kidorf Renee S.
Marcus Stephen
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