Socket device for overload responsive members

Claim 1

A SOCKET DEVICE FOR SUPPORTING AND ELECTRICALLY CONTACTING BUTTON-SHAPED OVERLOAD RESPONSIVE ELEMENTS, COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF IDENTICALLY CONSTRUCTED INSULATING MEMBERS OF GENERALLY RECTANGULAR SHAPE, CONSTRUCTED TO STACK, ONE UPON THE OTHER, EACH MEMBER HAVING PEG-LIKE PROJECTIONS EXTENDING OUTWARDLY FROM ONE FACE THEREOF AND CORRESPONDING OPENINGS ALIGNED THEREWITH DISPOSED IN THE OPPOSITE FACE THEREOF, WHEREBY THE PROJECTIONS OF ONE MEMBER MAY MATE WITH THE OPENINGS IN AN ADJACENT MEMBER STACKED THEREWITH, AN ELONGATED LEAF SPRING HAVING A TERMINAL PORTION AT ONE END THEREOF, OF REDUCED WIDTH COMPARED WITH THE WIDTH OF THE REMAINDER OF THE LEAF, AND OFFSET LATERALLY WITH RESPECT TO THE LONGITUDINAL AXIS THEREOF, THE OPPOSITE END OF SAID LEAF SPRING HAVING A TONGUE-LIKE CONTACT PART EXTENDING AWAY FROM SAID END AND DISPOSED TO RESILIENTLY ENGAGE ONE CONTACT SIDE OF SUCH AN OVERLOAD RESPONSIVE ELEMENT AND THEREBY PROVIDE MOUNTING SUPPORT THEREFOR, SAID LEAF SPRING HAVING OPENINGS THEREIN ARRANGED TO RECEIVE SUCH PEG-LIKE PROJECTIONS WHEN SUCH LEAF SPRING IS DISPOSED BETWEEN TWO STACKED INSULATING MEMBERS, WHEREBY SUCH STACKED MEMBERS AND THE SPRING DISPOSED THEREBETWEEN ARE SECURED AGAINST ANGULAR DISPLACEMENT WITH RESPECT TO ONE ANOTHER, HOLLOW RIVET MEANS EXTENDING TRANSVERSELY THROUGH SAID MEMBERS AND AN OPENING IN SAID LEAF SPRING FOR SECURING THE LATTER AND SAID MEMBERS IN COOPERATIVE ASSEMBLED RELATION, AND A COOPERABLE CONTACT MEMBER DISPOSED OPPOSITE SAID TONGUE-LIKE CONTACT FOR ENGAGING AND CONTACTING THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF SUCH AN OVERLOAD RESPONSIVE ELEMENT ENGAGED WITH SAID FIRST MENTIONED CONTACT AND THEREBY COMPLETE THE MOUNTING OF SUCH OVERLOAD RESPONSIVE ELEMENT.