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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 1996
Filed:
Nov. 25, 1994
Andrew Walker, Newton Aycliffe, GB;
Steven Swaddle, Chester-Le-Street, GB;
Black & Decker Inc., Newark, DE (US);
Abstract
A power tool such as a hand held vacuum cleaner, has a housing and nozzle. The housing mounts a motor and switch carrier. A battery pack powers the motor. The electrical arrangements comprise conductors punched from a single strip and fixed in guides formed on the carrier. Terminals of the motor and battery are pressed through slits in some conductors. The conductors pass into tracks formed on a tray of the switch. A mask is positioned on the tray to expose the conductors in discrete switch positions of slide connectors mounted in a switch slide slidably mounted on the tray. A mask (78) is positioned on the tray to expose the conductors in discrete switch positions (A, B, C) of slide connectors (68) mounted in a switch slide (64) slidably mounted on the tray.