Rotary switch with interchangeable contact structure for shorting and non-shorting positions

Claim 1

A MULTI-CONTACT ROTARY SWITCH FOR SWITCHING BETWEEN DIFFERENT CIRCUITS, COMPRISING A STATOR, A PLURALITY OF INDIVIDUAL CONTACTS MOUNTED ON SAID STATOR AT A FIXED DISTANCE FROM EACH OTHER, EACH OF SAID INDIVIDUAL CONTACTS PERMANENTLY CONNECTED TO DIFFERENT ONES OF SAID CIRCUITS, AT LEAST ONE CONTACT RING ON SAID STATOR PERMANENTLY CONNECTED TO ONE OF SAID CIRCUITS THAT IS TO BE SELECTIVELY CONNECTED TO THE OTHER ONES OF SAID CIRCUITS, ROTOR MEANS IN JUXTAPOSITION TO SAID STATOR, SLOTS IN SAID ROTOR MEANS SAID SLOTS SHAPED TO BE SMALLEST AT THE STATOR SIDE OF SAID ROTOR AND GRADUALLY EXPANDING AS SAID SLOTS EXTEND AWAY FROM THE STATOR SIDE OF SAID ROTOR, WIPER MEANS MOUNTED IN EACH OF SAID SLOTS SO AS TO BE SIMULTANEOUSLY CONTIGUOUS TO SAID RING AND SAID CONTACTS, SAID WIPER MEANS CONSISTING OF U-SHAPED CONDUCTIVE METALLIC STRIPS HAVING LEGS AND A CENTER PART, SAID LEGS BEING BIFURCATED, SAID BIFURCATED PORTION TERMINATING IN BARBED HOOKS FOR HOLDING SAID WIPERS IN SAID SLOTS, AND SAID CENTER PARTS HAVING CONTACT SURFACES INTEGRAL THERETO, AT LEAST ONE OF SAID CONTACT SURFACES BEING AT LEAST AS LONG SAID FIXED DISTANCE THEREBY BEING CAPABLE OF SIMULTANEOUSLY BRIDGING AT LEAST TWO OF SAID INDIVIDUAL CONTACTS FOR SAID STATOR AND AT LEAST ANOTHER OF SAID CONTACT SURFACES BEING SHORTER THAN SAID FIXED DISTANCE THEREBY BEING CAPABLE OF TOUCHING ONLY ONE OF SAID INDIVIDUAL CONTACTS ON SAID STATOR AT ANY POSITION OF SAID STATOR AT ANY ONE POSITION OF SAID ROTOR.