Lever key switch with molded lever key

Claim 1

IN A LEVER KEY SWITCH, AN ESCUTCHEON PLATE HAVING A SLOT THEREIN WITH VERTICAL ENDS, A FRAMEWORK SECURED TO AND DEPENDING FROM SAID PLATE WITH SWITCHING SPRINGS SECURED THERETO, A LEVER KEY PIVOTALLY MOUNTED IN SAID FRAME WITH ITS UPPER PORTION EXTENDING UPWARD THROUGH THE SLOT IN SAID ESCUTCHEON PLATE AND HAVING PROJECTIONS ON ITS LOWER PORTION FOR OPERATING THE SPRINGS WHEN THE KEY IS MOVED ABOUT ITS PIVOT, SAID KEY INTEGRALLY MOLDED IN ONE PIECE WITH ONE PORTION COMPRISING A THIN FLAT TAPERED SHANK EXTENDING UPWARD FROM ITS PIVOT POINT IN THE SHAPE OF A TRIANGLE WITH A THREADED PORTION EXTENDING UPWARD FROM THE UPPER APEX OF THE TRIANGULAR SHAPED PORTION TO WHICH A HANDLE MAY BE ATTACHED, THE LOWER PORTION OF THE KEY AT THE BASE OF THE TRIANGULAR SHAPED SHANK FORMED OF GREATER THICKNESS THAN SAID SHANK PORTION WITH A LARGE CAM SURFACE ON THE LOWER SIDE THEREOF ENGAGING THE SPRINGS WHEN THE KEY IS OPERATED AND WITH UPPER CAM SURFACES, ON EACH SIDE OF SAID SHANK, FORMED BY SAID THICKER PORTION AND ENGAGING THE UNDER SIDE OF SAID PLATE ON EITHER SIDE OF SAID SLOT TO STOP THE KEY, AND A PIVOT PIN EXTENDING THROUGH SAID THICKENED PORTION FOR PIVOTING THE KEY IN THE FRAME, EACH SIDE OF SAID TRIANGULAR SECTION LYING PARALLEL TO THE ADJACENT END OF THE SLOT WHEN THE KEY IS MOVED IN EITHER DIRECTION TO OPERATE ONE OF THE SETS OF SWITCH SPRINGS.