Electricity: circuit makers and breakers – Multiple circuit control – Reciprocating contact
Patent
1990-10-26
1991-09-24
Scott, J. R.
Electricity: circuit makers and breakers
Multiple circuit control
Reciprocating contact
200 16D, H01H 1500
Patent
active
050515497
ABSTRACT:
Slide switches have an electrically insulated slide body which is slidably disposed within an interior cavity defined in an electrically insulated support housing. The slide body has a knob which projects through a opening defined in an upper wall of the support housing so as to allow manual movement of the slide body between the first and second positions. At least one pair of elongated conductors is provided with the opposed ends being fixed to an opposed pair of side walls of the housing so that the fixed conductors extend parallel to one another, but are positioned in spaced relationship transversely relative to the reciprocal movement of the slide body within the support housing. The slide body carries a movable conductor which is sized and configured so as to be in contact with the pair of elongate fixed conductors when the slide body is in its first position so as to make an electrical circuit therebetween. Movement of the slide body thus disengages the movable conductor from the pair of elongate fixed conductors so as to break electrical contact therebetween. A retaining plate closes lower end of the interior space of the housing such that the pair of fixed conductors are in space relationship thereto.
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Scott J. R.
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