Push button switch with leaf spring contacts

Claim 1

IN AN ELECTRIC SWITCH, THE COMBINATION OF: (A) A HOLLOW HOUSING HAVING A FRONT END AND A REAR END; (B) A PUSH BUTTON OPERATOR DISPOSED WITHIN SAID HOUSING AND HAVING A PORTION EXTENDING OUT OF THE FRONT END OF SAID HOUSING; (C) AND BRIDGING CONTACT OF SHEET METAL HAVING A FLAT CONTACT PORTION DISPOSED WITHIN SAID HOUSING AND AXIALLY SHIFTABLE WITH SAID OPERATOR; (D) MEANS WITHIN SAID HOUSING FOR GUIDING MOVEMENT OF SAID CONTACT PORTION ALONG A SINGLE PLANE COEXTENSIVE WITH THE PLANE OF SAID CONTACT PORTION; (E) SPRING MEANS WITHIN SAID HOUSING URGING SAID INNER END OF SAID OPERATOR AND SAID HOUSING; FROM THE REAR END OF SAID HOUSING; (F) A PAIR OF SPACED, ELONGATED, STATIONARY SPRING CONTACT MEMBERS HAVING FRONT AND REAR PORTIONS, THE REAR PORTIONS OF SAID CONTACT MEMBERS BEING MOUNTED AT THE REAR END OF SAID HOUSING ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF SAID SINGLE PLANE, THE FRONT PORTIONS OF SAID CONTACT MEMBERS EXTENDING IN SPACED RELATION TOWARD THE FRONT END OF SAID HOUSING FOR RESILIENT BRIDGING ENGAGEMENT WITH THE CONTACT PORTION OF SAID BRIDGING CONTACT; (G) EACH FRONT PORTION OF SAID CONTACT MEMBERS COMPRISING A FIRST GENERALLY FLAT PORTION INCLINING FORWARDLY AND INWARDLY TOWARD SAID SINGLE PLANE FROM SAID REAR PORTION AND A SECOND GENERALLY FLAT PORTION INCLINING FORWARDLY AND OUTWARDLY OF SAID SINGLE PLANE FROM SAID FIRST PORTION OF THE RESPECTIVE CONTACT MEMBER ON THE SAME SIDE OF SAID SINGLE PLANE AS SAID FIRST PORTION OF THE RESPECTIVE CONTACT MEMBER, SAID FIRST PORTIONS INCLINING IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS AND SAID SECOND PORTIONS INCLINING IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS, AND SAID FRONT PORTIONS BEING OFFSET LATERALLY AND HAVING PORTIONS CROSSED AND ALIGNED RELATIVE TO EACH OTHER IN A DIRECTION LENGTHWISE OF THE CONTACT PORTION OF SAID BRIDGING CONTACT TO BE TENSIONED BY ENGAGEMENT OF THE LATTER THEREBETWEEN.