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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 1981
Filed:
Oct. 01, 1979
Charles D Branson, Greensburg, PA (US);
Harvey J Shopsky, Latrobe, PA (US);
Robertshaw Controls Company, Richmond, VA (US);
Abstract
A housing construction for an electrical switch construction having one housing member partially telescoped inside another housing member to have a pair of opposed ears on the one housing member respectively project through a pair of opposed slots in the other housing member together with a cover member secured to one of the housing members to hold the same in their assembled and telescoped relation. Each slot is defined in part by a pair of opposed surfaces one of which comprises a flexible biasing section. Each ear has opposed edges respectively press-fitted between the opposed surfaces of its respective slot and flexing the biasing section thereof outwardly from its respective other surface whereby the biasing sections hold one of the edges of the ears against the other surface of the slots.