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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 03, 1982
Filed:
Jan. 29, 1981
Horst Grossmann, Huenfelden, DE;
Alfred Bausch, Waldbrunn, DE;
Black & Decker Inc., Newark, DE (US);
Abstract
A portable electric tool with a housing having a motor compartment and a pistol grip handle is provided with a trigger-switch, incorporating a motor reversing switch, mounted in the handle. An elongated lever is pivoted intermediate its length and contained within the housing. The rear end of the lever is connected to the reversing switch for actuation thereof. The forward end of the lever has a downwardly projecting protrusion which engages in a slide member which is slidable along an arcuate slot in the lower wall of the motor compartment for pivoting the lever. Intermediate the forward end of the lever and the pivotal axis of the lever is a downwardly projecting pin which coacts with a partition and two grooves in the upper part of the trigger-switch to block the movement of the trigger until the lever has been pivoted to actuate the reversing switch, and also to prevent pivoting of the lever while the trigger is in an inward position energizing the tool. A brush-board assembly is rotatably mounted in bearings extending inwardly from the wall of the motor compartment. The lever has adjacent its forward end an upwardly extending forked arm which engages a stud on the brush-board assembly to effect rotation thereof when the lever is pivoted.