Electricity: circuit makers and breakers – Liquid contact – Time delay
Patent
1975-03-03
1977-03-08
Schaefer, Robert K.
Electricity: circuit makers and breakers
Liquid contact
Time delay
200276, 200 52R, H01H 312
Patent
active
040114228
ABSTRACT:
A push-button switch having an electrically conductive body forming a chamber, having a fixed contact supported in the chamber, having a passage communicating with the chamber, having a flexible diaphragm sealing said chamber from said passage, and having an operating member slidably movable in said passage for depressing the diaphragm, has a flat spiral spring disposed within the chamber with the perimeter of the spring in electrical engagement with the body and with a central portion of the spring disposed in selected spaced relation to the fixed contact between the fixed contact and the diaphragm for permitting movement of the operating member to depress the central portion of the flat spiral spring through the flexible diaphragm into electrical engagement with the fixed contact to close an electrical circuit between the fixed contact and the body.
REFERENCES:
patent: 884121 (1908-04-01), Apold
patent: 2916871 (1959-12-01), Wegner
patent: 3767875 (1973-10-01), Schneikart et al.
patent: 3946182 (1976-03-01), Holder
Kleven Laurence P.
Sanford Carlton E.
Ginsburg Morris
Haug John A.
Levine Harold
McAndrews James P.
Schaefer Robert K.
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