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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 1978
Filed:
Nov. 19, 1976
Council A Tucker, Los Angeles, CA (US);
American Telecommunications Corporation, El Monte, CA (US);
Abstract
A column mounts on a base housing and mounts a lever for pivotal movement between an 'off-hook' and an 'on-hook' position. A portion of the lever is an arm of a fanciful character which holds a telephone handset. The column attaches the character to it and the base housing. The lever has a collar in receipt of the column and an actuation tab from the collar for sliding contact with a nose of a finger of an actuator. The actuator transmits off-handset and on-handset signals to a hook switch in the base housing. A pivot bracket mounts the lever on the column diametrically opposite the finger and character arm and outwardly and away from the column. The lever moves through a comparatively small angle for a comparatively large displacement of the end of the lever represented by the arm of the character. A platform of the pivot bracket bears against laterally extending ribs of the column and attaches to the column by a fastener and hook-and-slot engagement.