Abstract The sequential signal producing means has a housing including a back wall mounting a row of a desired number of individual push button switches, and including a mating, open backed cover with a front longitudinal slot, and with a like number of upper windows; a slider assembly of a knob plate with a rectangular sleeve extending through the slot and secured to an inner plate to be thereby slideably mounted to the housing for movement along the slot; a strip spring coiled at one end, anchored to the housing at the one end, secured to the sleeve of the slider assembly midway thereof, and extended along the slot to be collected in a tube adjacent the other end of the slot to bias the slider assembly toward the one end to a ready position, a spring ball in the inner plate for dropping into one of a like number of indentations in the housing to precisely locate the slider assembly in a respective distinct position along the slot; an arm on the inner plate for blocking the window corresponding to the distinct position of the slider assembly; a knob with a shaft extending through the sleeve of the slider assembly to locate an eccentric over the row of switches to depress an aligned push button upon rotation of the knob to an operating position; a shoulder from the inner plate extending into an arcuate slot in the knob to limit rotation thereof; a torsion spring from the shaft to the inner plate to bias the knob to a non-operating position; a spring ball in the knob which drops into an identation in the knob plate to temporarily hold the knob in nonoperating position, and a switch on the housing operated by movement of the knob away from a ready position to energize the switches whereby when the knob is located in a respective distinct position and is rotated, a respective switch is operated, upon a patterned movement between distinct positions and upon rotation in these positions, to produce a sequential signal for being sent to a means for discriminately receiving a sequential signal.
Inventors
👤 K Gartner
Bibliographic Details
Application Number—
JurisdictionUS
Data Sourcegoogle_patents
Last Synchronized2026-10-29 04:51
CPC Classifications
H; H01; H01H; H01H25/00
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 2
Claim 1
Independent Claim
237 words
In a sequence switch mechanism including a manually movable actuator means for movement between distinct positions associated with a housing having sensing means mounted thereto, the improvement comprising; first means for mounting the actuator means to the housing for movement linearly along the housing in non-operating relation to the sensing means associated with said housing, said first means including a longitudinal slot in the housing through which the actuator means extends for longitudinal movement and for relative rotation; and second means associated with said first means for mouNting said actuator means for relative rotation between a non-operating position not operating the sensing means and an operating position operating the sensing means; and said actuator means including a knob, a shaft mounted to the knob and extending through said slot to the sensing means, and wherein said first mounting means includes a knob plate between said knob and said housing, said knob plate having a sleeve extending through a slot with said shaft passing through said sleeve, and an inner plate on the inner side of the sleeve inside the housing, said plates sliding on the housing to mount the knob and shaft for both linear movement and rotational movement in said slot, said actuator means being thereby movable linearly to a preselected distinct position while in the non-operating position and then being rotated from the non-operating position to the operating position for operating the preselected sensing means.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
265 words
In a sequence switch mechanism including a manually movable actuator means for movement between distinct positions associated with a housing having sensing means mounted thereto, the improvement comprising: first means for mounting the actuator means to the housing for movement linearly along the housing in non-operating relation to the sensing means, said first means including a longitudinal slot in the housing through which said actuator means extends for longitudinal and rotational movement; second means associated with said first means for mounting said actuator means for relative rotation between a non-operating position not operating the sensing means and an operating position operating the sensing means; longitudinal biasing means for biasing said actuator means towards one end of said slot including a strip spring attached to the housing in a coil adjacent one end thereof and extending to the other end of the housing, said actuator means being mounted to the spring such that movement of said actuator means along the slot away from one end unwinds the spring and upon release of said actuator means the spring rewinds to return said actuator means to the one end of said slot, and strip spring collector means provided in said housing adjacent the opposite end of the slot for collecting the end of the spring adjacent thereto as said actuator means is moved along said slot toward the opposite end thereof, whereby said actuator means may be moved against the spring biased linearly to a preselected distinct position while in the non-operating position and then may be rotated to the operating position for operating a preselected sensing means.