Multiple slide switch

Claim 1

A MULTIPLE SLIDE SWITCH ASSEMBLY COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF CO-PLANAR SPACED ELONGATED PARALLEL TERMINAL STRIPS, A PLURALITY OF SPACED PARALLEL SWITCH SUPPORTING ELEMENTS EXTENDING ACROSS SAID TERMINAL STRIPS GENERALLY PERPENDICULAR THERETO, AN ELONGATED SLIDE OF SUBSTANTIALLY GREATER LENGTH THAN SAID SWITCH SUPPORTING ELEMENTS EXTENDING BETWEEN EACH OF ADJACENT PAIRS OF SAID SWITCH SUPPORTING ELEMENTS AND SUPPORTED FOR MOVEMENT IN A DIRECTION TRANSVERSELY ACROSS SAID TERMINAL STRIPS, SAID SLIDES HAVING ADJACENT ONE END INDICIA SPACED THEREALONG AND AN ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTING SURFACE INSULATED FROM SAID SUPPORTING ELEMENTS, THE OTHER END OF SAID SLIDES BEING FLEXIBLE FOR COILING THEREOF WITHIN SAID HOUSING, MOVABLE CONTACTOR MEANS MOUNTED GENERALLY MIDWAY ALONG EACH OF SAID SLIDES AND ELECTRICALLY CONNECTED TO SAID CONDUCTING SURFACE FOR CONTACTING SAID TERMINAL STRIPS, FIXED CONTACTOR MEANS ADJACENT SAID ONE SLIDE END FOR CONTACTING SAID CONDUCTING SURFACE, MEANS EXTENDING PARALLEL TO SAID TERMINAL STRIPS ACROSS SAID SLIDES DEFINING THE POSITION OF SAID SLIDES RELATIVELY TO AN INDICIA ON EACH OF SAID SLIDES, WITH SAID TERMINAL STRIPS BEING SPACED BY A DISTANCE DEFINED BY THE DISTANCE BETWEEN SAID INDICIA, AND MEANS FOR INDEPENDENTLY MOVING EACH OF SAID SLIDES SELECTIVELY TO CONNECT A TERMINAL STRIP TO A FIXED CONTACTOR MEANS AT A DEFINED POSITION OF AN INDICIA ON A SLIDE TO ESTABLISH A PLURALITY OF CONNECTIONS BETWEEN SAID TERMINAL STRIP AND SAID FIXED CONTACTOR MEANS PREDETERMINED BY THE INDICIA OF A PLURALITY OF SAID SLIDES.