Multiple contact stator unit for rotary switch and method of making the same

Claim 1

A MULTIPLE CONTACT UNIT FOR ROTARY SWITCHES HAVING A PLURALITY OF INDIVIDUAL FLAT CONTACT BLADES CARRIED BY A BODY OF MOLDED INSULATING MATERIAL, TO WHICH THE CONTACT BLADES ARE FIXED BY HAVING A PORTION OF EACH OF THEM EMBEDDED IN THE MOLDED BODY WITH THE CONTACT BLADES PROJECTING FROM AT LEAST ONE EDGE OF THE BODY, SAID UNIT BEING CHARACTERIZED: BY THE FACT THAT ALL OF THE FLAT CONTACT BLADES LIE IN A COMMON PLANE INTERMEDIATE AND SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL TO OPPOSITE FACES OF THE MOLDED BODY; AND BY THE PROVISION OF DEFLECTORS ON THE EMBEDDED PORTION OF CERTAIN OF THE CONTACT BLADES PRESSED OUT OF THE PLANE THEREOF, EACH DEFLECTOR HAVING AN EDGE WHICH IS SPACED FROM THE ADJACENT FLAT SIDE OF ITS RESPECTIVE BLADE, AND FROM WHICH EDGE THE DEFLECTOR SLOPES BACK TOWARD THE PLANE OF THE BLADE TO MERGE WITH THE ADJACENT FLAT PORTION OF THE BLADES, CERTAIN OF THE DEFLECTORS PROJECTING TO ONE SIDE OF THE COMMON PLANE OF THE INSERTS WHILE THE REMAINDER THEREOF PROJECTING TO THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF SAID PLANE FOR ANCHORING THE BLADES PROVIDED WITH THE DEFLECTORS MORE FIRMLY IN THE BODY OF MOLDED INSULATING MATERIAL DISPOSED ABOVE AND BELOW THE COMMON PLANE.