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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 1991
Filed:
Oct. 03, 1989
Larry J Krubsack, Colgate, WI (US);
Allen L Handy, North Prairie, WI (US);
John G Lawton, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Clum Manufacturing Company, Inc., Hartland, WI (US);
Abstract
A solenoid starter switch unit for garden tractors, outboard motors and the like operating in a vibrational environmental has an insulating housing with a coil chamber and an outwardly extending rectangular contact chamber. A coil unit supported in the coil chamber has a magnetic plunger with a contact pin journalled in one end and projecting into the contact chamber. The pin has an intermediate contact ledge and a contact has a flat base abutting the contact ledge. The contact is a winged-shaped strip of constant width substantially corresponding to the ledge and is symmetrically formed with a flat base on an inclined portion connected to an outer flat contact portion parallel to the base. An outer lip projects laterally and inwardly from the contact portion. A clamp nut on the pin has an outer edge engaging an outer portion of the base. Coil leads in one embodiment project through the top housing wall. Terminals are press fitted within receptacles on the top of the bobbin. The coil leads pass through top openings in the bottom and are wound about the terminals and soldered in place. The coil leads in another embodiment extend from the bottom of the bobbin and laterally through recessed guides to a bottom terminal chamber. A bottom coil clamp has a projection between the guides to hold the bottom against rotation and clamp the coil within the housing.