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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 1984
Filed:
Sep. 21, 1982
Donald H Stoll, Morrison, IL (US);
General Electric Company, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
Abstract
A method of assembling a control device. The control device has a housing, a first contact, a switch having a resilient switch blade with a second contact thereon, a pair of supports for the first contact and the switch and including at least one yieldable section, respectively, and an actuator for the switch to make and break the first and second contacts. In this method, the supports and the actuator are mounted with the pg,2 housing, and the second contact on the switch blade is engaged with the first contact. The at least one yieldable section of one of the supports is deformed, the first contact is thereby located in an adjusted position defining the magnitude of a force required to break the first and second contacts when the switch is actuated by the actuator. The at least one yieldable section of the other of the supports is deformed, and the resilient switch blade is thereby biased toward another adjusted position defining a differential between the magnitude of the first named force and that of another force required to make the first and second contacts when the switch is actuated by the actuator.