Switch means for selective control of plural circuits

Claim 1

SWITCH MEANS FOR SELECTIVELY CONTROLLING A PLURALITY OF CIRCUITS COMPRISING: (A) A PAIR OF PUSHBUTTON SWITCHES, EACH HAVING A PARALLELEPIPED CASING AND AN AXIALLY MOVABLE PUSHBUTTON WHICH PROJETS FROM A SIDE SURFACE OF THE CASING, NEAR ONE END THEREOF, AND WHICH IS OUTWARDLY BIASED RELATIVE TO THE CASING; (B) HOUSING MEANS MOUNTING THE SWITCHES WITH THEIR CASINGS IN FIXED SIDE-BY-SIDE RELATIONSHIP WITH SAID SURFACE OF EACH CASING UPPERMOST AND COPLANAR WITH THAT OF THE OTHER SO THAT THE TOPS OF THE BUSHBUTTONS ARE NORMALLY IN A COMMON PLANE PARALLEL TO THAT OF SAID SURFACES OF THE CASINGS, AND WITH SAID END OF EACH CASING REMOTE FROM THAT OF THE OTHER SO THAT A LINE CONNECTING THE AXES OF THE BUSHBUTTONS EXTENDS OBLIQUELY ACROSS SAID UPPERMOST SURFACES OF THE CASINGS; (C) A ROCKER LEVER HAVING A PAIR OF OPPOSITELY EXTENDING ARMS, ONE OF EACH PUSHBUTTON; (D) COOPERATING TRUNNION MEANS ON THE HOUSING MEANS AND ON THE ROCKER LEVER, BETWEEN AND TRANSVERSE TO THE ARMS OF THE LATTER, MOUNTING THE ROCKER LEVER WITH ITS ARMS OVER THEIR RESPECTIVE PUSHBUTTONS, SAID TRUNNION MEANS DEFINING A ROCKING AXIS OF THE ROCKER LEVER WHICH IS PARALLEL TO SAID PLANE AND TRANSVERSE TO SAID LINE, ABOUT WHICH THE ROCKING LEVER CAN PIVOT FROM A NEUTRAL POSITION IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS TO A PAIR OF OPERAWTIVE POSITIONS IN EACH OF WHICH THE ROCKER LEVER DEPRESSES ONE OF SAID PUSHBUTTONS; (E) A GENERALLY UPRIGHT ACTUATING LEVER; (F) COOPERATING PIVOT MEANS ON THE HOUSING MEANS AND ON THE ACTUATING LEVER, MEDIALLY PIVOTING THE ACTUATING LEVER FOR SWINGING MOTION ABOUT AN AXIS ABOVE AND SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL TO THE AXIS OF SAID TRUNNION MEANS; (G) A CAM FOLLOWER CARRIED BY THE LOWER PORTION OF SAID ACTUATING LEVER AND CONSTRAINED TO SWINGING MOTION THEREWITH AND TO GENERALLY UP AND DOWN MOTION LENGTHWISE OF THE ACTUATING LEVER; (H) SPRING MEANS REACTING BETWEEN THE ACTUATING LEVER AND THE CAM FOLLOWER TO BIAS THE LATTER GENERALLY DOWNWARDLY, TOWARD THE ROCKER LEVER; AND (I) MEANS ON EACH ARM OF THE ROCKER LEVER DEFINING A GENERALLY UPWARDLY FACING CAM SURFACE THAT IS INCLINED OBLIQUELY UPWARDLY FROM THE AXIS OF THE TRUNNION MEANS, EACH OF SAID CAM SURFACES BEING COOPERABLE WITH THE CAM FOLLOWER, UPON SWINGING OF THE ACTUATING LEVER IN ONE DIRECTION FROM A NEUTRAL STRAIGHT UP POSITION, TO ROCK THE ROCKER LEVER TO ONE OF ITS SAID OPERATIVE POSITIONS.