Electricity: circuit makers and breakers – Multiple circuit control – Reciprocating contact
Patent
1984-05-29
1985-09-03
Pellinen, A. D.
Electricity: circuit makers and breakers
Multiple circuit control
Reciprocating contact
200 16C, H01H 1506
Patent
active
045394466
ABSTRACT:
A slide action electrical switch, comprising a casing, a carriage mounted in the casing for sliding movement along a predetermined path, an electrically conductive contactor mounted on the carriage, electrical contact means on the casing and selectively engageable by the contactor during movement thereof with the carriage along the path, such casing having a front wall with a rearwardly facing surface along which the carriage is slidable, such casing having a slot extending through the front wall and generally parallel with such path of the carriage, and an operating member slidable along the front surface of the front wall, such operating member comprising a rearwardly extending portion including a pair of prongs extending through and slidable along the slot, such carriage having a retaining slot for receiving the prongs, such prongs being flexible and resilient and having rear end portions with ratchet teeth thereon for deflecting the prongs toward each other as they are inserted through the retaining slot during the assembly of the prongs into the retaining slot, such prongs being operative to snap away from each other with the ratchet teeth locked behind the carriage when the prongs are fully inserted through the retaining slot in the carriage. A spring is preferably provided to bias the carriage toward one end of its path. Preferably, the operating member is sufficiently longer than the slot in the front wall to cover such slot throughout the range of movement of the operating member. The casing, the carriage and the operating member are preferably made of resinous plastic materials.
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patent: 4463237 (1984-07-01), Kim
Cobb, III Albert R.
Raab Andrew F.
Ginsburg Morris
Indak Manufacturing Corp.
Pellinen A. D.
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