Electricity: circuit makers and breakers – Electric switch details – Indicators
Patent
1990-02-20
1991-10-01
Recla, Henry J.
Electricity: circuit makers and breakers
Electric switch details
Indicators
2003023, 200339, H01H 900
Patent
active
050535919
ABSTRACT:
A silicone seal is molded-in-place to a frame and toggle lever pivotally mounted in the frame, the seal integrally providing a closed loop bead gasket on the lower surface of the frame surrounding the periphery of a switch cavity at the upper surface of a base. Lamp sockets are formed through the base and frame outside the closed loop gasket surrounding the switch cavity, the sockets being surrounded by additional closed loop gaskets integral with the seal, and further comprising lamp receiving resilient boots integral with the seal disposed in a front opening pocket of the frame for convenient insertion/removal of lamps from the front of the switch. A rocker button snaps onto a stub end of the toggle lever within the pocket to overlie the lamps, the button being provided with one or more windows and selected indicia. A panel gasket is molded-in-place to an under surface of a peripheral flange on the frame in the same molding operation as the aforementioned seal, and may also be an integral part of the seal.
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Eaton Corporation
Kupferschmid Keith
Recla Henry J.
Uthoff, Jr. L. H.
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