Three-position flashlight switch

Details Three-position flashlight switch Three-position flashlight switch

H - Electricity

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240/121, 306/307

H01H 15/10 (2006.01) H01H 15/02 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 1049473

ANTON H. OSWALD THREE-POSITION FLASHLIGHT SWITCH ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE The switch includes a housing and an actuating member which is slidably mounted for movement along the housing between first, second and third positions and has a pushbutton depress- able in a direction perpendicular to said movement between normal and depressed position. First and second contacts are mounted on the housing. The second contact is flexible and movable by the actuating member between a position wherein the contacts are engaged thus completing an electrical circuit and a position where the contacts are space from each other. The actuating member and the second contact each have a surface extending in the direction of the sliding movement of the actuating member and a surface which is generally inclined with respect to that surface in the direction away from the second contact. The corresponding surfaces are out of alignment when the actuating member is in the first position, such that the depression of the pushbutton is ineffective to cause movement of the second contact into the engaged position. The corres- ponding surfaces are in alignment when the actuating member is in the second position such that depression of the pushbutton causes engagement of the contacts. The corresponding inclined surfaces coact, as the member slides along the housing from the second to the third position, to move the second contact into engagement with the first contact and in this position, the surface of the actuating member which extends in the direction of sliding movement of the member is effective to retain the contacts in the engaged position.

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