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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 1978
Filed:
Oct. 26, 1977
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gunter Greiner, Bayreuth, DE;
Gunter Murmann, Neuses, DE;
Assignee:
Cherry Electrical Products Corp., Waukegan, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01H / ; H01H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
200156 ; 74143 ; 74575 ; 200 / ; 200308 ;
Abstract
A push-button rotary switch having a switching mechanism including a pair of independent actuators having linear movement into contact with the teeth of a switch position selector ratchet wheel mounted at the center of a rotatable switch-positioning indicator, with the actuators adapted to alternately engage certain of the ratchet teeth so as to rotate the switch-positioning indicator step by step in either direction into different switching positions.