Miniature rotary electric component

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A MINIATURE MULTITURN POTENTIOMETER COMOPRISING: A CIRCULAR NON-CONDUCTIVE BASE MEMBER INCLUDING A PLURALITY OF CONDUCTIVE PINS EXTENDING THERETHROUGH AND DOWNWARDLY THEREFROM, A CENTRAL POST EXTENDING UPWARDLY THEREFROM, AN ANNULAR RIM DISPOSED COAXIALLY ABOUT SAID POST AND FORMING WITH ITS INNER CYLINDRICAL SURFAC A RESISTANCE ELEMENT RETAINING SHOULDER; AN INNER HOLLOW SHAFT MEMBER HAVING AN EFFECTIVE OUTER PERIMETER P1 DISPOSED CONTIGUOUSLY OVER SAID POST IN ROTATABLE RELATIONSHIP THEREWITH; RESISTANCE ELEMENT WIPER ARM MEANS CARRIED BY SAID HOLLOW SHAFT; A DEFORMABLE DISC MEMBER HAVING AN INNER RIM PORTION EXTENDING UPWARDLY THEREFROM ABOUT SAID HOLLOW SHAFT, THE LENGTH OF THE INNER PERIPHERY OF SAID INNER RIM PORTION BEING P2; MEANS FOR SECURING SAID DISC MEMBER IN NON-SLIPPING CONTACT WITH SAID BASE; AND A SUBSTANTIALLY DISC-SHAPED OUTER ROTARY MEMBER BEING RELIEVED FROM THE CENTRAL PORTION OF ITS LOWER SURFACE TO DEFINE A RECESS DISPOSED ABOUT SAID SHAFT, RIM PORTION OF SAID DISC MEMBER AND SAID INNER SHAFT, SAID RECESS HAVING A PAIRR OF SURFACE AREAS, CONTACTING IN A SLIDABLE RELATION, SAID INNER RIM PORTION AT DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSED POINTS ON THE OUTER CYLINDRICAL SURFACE THEREOF AND CAUSING CORRESPONDING PAIR OF INNER POINTS THEREOF TO BE URGED INTO NON-SLIPPING CONTACT WITH SAID INNER SHAFT, WHEREBY THE CONCENTRIC RELATIVE ROTATION BETWEEN SAID INNER SHAFT AND SAID OUTER ROTARY MEMBER IS RELATED AS 1 MINUS P2/P1.