Actuator for an ignition device

Claim 1

In an electromagnetic ignition device, in combination, a housing; an ignition system mounted in said housing and including a magnet, an ignition coil, a yoke with one arm attached to one end of said magnet and with the opposite arm extending through said ignition coil, and having an armature normally completing with said magnet, and yoke an electromagnet circuit and being movable to an Energizing position interrupting said circuit so that the same produces an electric spark; and mechanical actuating means carried by said housing, including an arm fast with said armature and deflectable from a normal rest position to an operating position in which it displaces said armature to said energizing position, a linearly shiftable actuating member engaging said arm and operable for deflecting said arm to said operating position thereof, and a rotary eccentric actuating member engaging said arm remote from and independently of said linearly shiftable actuating member and being turnable in a sense deflecting said arm to said operating position, said rotary eccentric actuating member including a pulley mounted on and fast with said shaft and an elongated flexible member trained about said pulley for rotating the same and thereby said shaft in response to pull exerted on said elongated flexible member at a location remote from said pulley.