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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 1977
Filed:
Sep. 05, 1975
Anton H Oswald, Wayne, NJ (US);
Bright Star Industries, Inc., Clifton, NJ (US);
Abstract
The switch includes a slide, mounted for movement along the housing between first, second and third positions, and carrying a depressable pushbutton. A flexible contact is movable by the pushbutton to a position wherein it is operatively connected to a fixed contact to complete the electrical circuit. The pushbutton and the flexible contact each have corresponding camming and non-camming surfaces thereon which respectively interact to move the flexible contact towards the fixed contact. The corresponding camming surfaces interact only as the slide is moved from the second to the third position. The corresponding non-camming surfaces interact only when aligned and the pushbutton is depressed. Since none of the surfaces operatively interact as the slide is moved from the first toward the second position, wearing of the interacting surfaces is substantially reduced.