Electricity: circuit makers and breakers – Multiple circuit control – Reciprocating contact
Patent
1977-01-04
1978-12-05
Scott, James R.
Electricity: circuit makers and breakers
Multiple circuit control
Reciprocating contact
200 16R, 200291, 74527, H01H 1518, H01H 900
Patent
active
041287452
ABSTRACT:
A multiple-position slide switch having a detent member operative side-wise with respect to the path of movement of the sliding contact carrier of the switch to hold the carrier in a selected position. The detent member which is formed of material, preferably such as moldable plastic, having the power of recovering its initially produced durable or static shape when a deforming force or pressure causing it to be temporarily deformed is removed, is in the form of a flat member having a pair of laterally spaced longitudinally extending flexible struts which embrace therebetween an upwardly projecting knob of the slidable carrier, the inner edges of the struts and the outer surfaces of the carrier knob being complementally shaped to provide coacting surfaces which coact upon deflection of the struts to snap the carrier into its selected position. In one form of the invention, the detent member provides the snap-action movement through the intervention of a pivoted toggle lever acting upon the slidable contact carrier knob, while in another form thereof the snap-action is provided by direct manual manipulation of the slidable contact carrier knob.
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Marsilio Dominic O.
O'Bryan Edwin J.
Continental-Wirt Electronics Corporation
Scott James R.
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