Electricity: circuit makers and breakers – Electric switch details – Contact
Patent
1989-12-14
1991-09-03
Recla, Henry J.
Electricity: circuit makers and breakers
Electric switch details
Contact
200 16A, 200553, 200557, 200563, H01H 100
Patent
active
050456547
ABSTRACT:
A switch assembly having a pair of spaced parallel contact strips disposed in a housing with integral connector terminal portions thereof extending exteriorly of the housing. One of the contact strips serves as common bus and the other is divided into discrete individual contact portions and has surface portions thereof configured to provide detents integrally therewith. A wiper member bar is pivoted on the housing and has a shorting bar thereon spring biased against the contact strips to effect a switching action as the bar is moved along the strips.
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Lauritsen Richard L.
Pastwa Conrad M.
Barrett Glenn T.
Eaton Corporation
Johnston R. A.
Recla Henry J.
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