Milton N Ives

US Patent:

51050595, Apr 14, 1992

Filed:

Mar 14, 1991

Appl. No.:

7/668297

Inventors:

Richard W. Sorenson - Stuart FL
Milton Ives - Stuart FL

Assignee:

Carlingswitch, Inc. - Plainville CT

International Classification:

H01H 916
H01H 2108

US Classification:

2003023

Abstract:

A split switch case has a base and a mounting bracket fitted thereto. The top wall of the latter has a lateral rib defining sockets for receiving shoulder portions of the actuator. Plungers in the actuator can bottom out to break free the switch contacts should they fuse together. The rocker has a unique shape and is coupled to the actuator for positive pivotal movement on a lateral axis defined by surfaces in the rocker and in the mounting bracket's top wall rib. In the illuminated switch shown, the lamp circuit has at least one lead provided in a slot defined inside the mounting bracket. The lamp can be mounted in the mounting bracket either from above or from below, two depending legs will accommodate a conventional LED from either direction.

US Patent:

D3415686, Nov 23, 1993

Filed:

Mar 27, 1991

Appl. No.:

7/675721

Inventors:

Richard W. Sorenson - Stuart FL
Milton Ives - Stuart FL

Assignee:

Carlingswitch, Inc. - Plainville CT

US Classification:

D13174

US Patent:

52275957, Jul 13, 1993

Filed:

May 20, 1992

Appl. No.:

7/886435

Inventors:

Richard W. Sorenson - Stuart FL
Milton Ives - Stuart FL

Assignee:

Carlingswitch, Inc. - Plainville CT

International Classification:

H01H 1958
H01H 2176

US Classification:

200 11J

Abstract:

A miniature rotary switch has nested terminals in its bottom wall and a spherical shaped movable contact arranged in a rotatable control member such that a lower portion of the ball rides over upwardly projecting portions of a common contact ring that is nested in the lower portion of a cavity defined in the switch housing or body portion. One of the terminals is staked to the contact ring to provide an OFF position while the other circumaxially spaced positions are defined by U-shaped cut outs in the contact ring that cause the ball to seat between the edges of each U-shaped cut out and the upper end of a fixed contact terminal provided in the semi-circular cut-out area defined by the common contact ring. The ring is so formed that the ball is releasably retained in each switch position and is biased toward such ON positions when not so retained.

US Patent:

D3284549, Aug 4, 1992

Filed:

Dec 13, 1990

Appl. No.:

7/627217

Inventors:

Richard W. Sorenson - Stuart FL
Milton Ives - Stuart FL

Assignee:

Carlingswitch, Inc. - Plainville CT

US Classification:

D13174

US Patent:

57250871, Mar 10, 1998

Filed:

Oct 7, 1996

Appl. No.:

8/726809

Inventors:

Milton N. Ives - Stuart FL

Assignee:

Carlingswitch, Inc. - Plainville CT

International Classification:

H01H 2180

US Classification:

200330

Abstract:

An electric switch for converting to rotary motion a rocker style switching mechanism. A switch cavity is formed in the case and a movable contact is provided in the switch cavity. A knob is coupled to an actuator mounted in the cavity for positive pivotal movement on a lateral axis. The knob contains cams formed in an interior knob cavity and is mounted on the switch so that when the knob is rotated on an axis perpendicular to the pivot axis of the actuator, the cams engage the actuator to move the movable contact between "ON" and "OFF" positions.