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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 1984
Filed:
Sep. 14, 1981
Steve W Haskins, Corinth, MS (US);
International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A pivoval switch mechanism usable as the hookswitch of a telephone instrument. The switch mechanism includes a transverse camshaft supported between actuating arms of an actuating lever. The camshaft carries a plurality of transversely spaced contact spring operating cams, each cam positioned between respective contact springs of a spring pair. The camshaft is journaled adjacent its transverse ends within bearing openings of an enclosing housing, the housing enclosing the camshaft, cams and contact springs. The contact springs are leaf springs resting in two parallel arrays of slots in the housing, the springs being identical. The spings each have an angled ridge contactor positioned to engage a ridge on a like spring member spaced therefrom.