Remote controlled switching and indicator device

Abstract

Abstract In a preferred embodiment, a switching device and indicator panel suitable for utilization by incapacitated and/or handicapped persons making use of a suck and/or blow activator tube(s), including a plurality of step switches with two initial activators, one initial activator being to select which one of three circuits are to be closed at a particular moment, a first circuit being to first and second stepped switches in parallel for closing, in a fourth circuit, one of several possible stepped contacts connected with alternative separate sub-circuits, any one of which is completable of the closed fourth circuit for one of the first and second stepped switches with a corresponding plurality of contacts closable of the fourth circuit for the other of the first and second stepped switches, each of the subcircuits of the first and second stepped switches being connected and aligned along one of an x and y axes, and third and fourth stepped switches for making and breaking closed circuits for any one of the sub-circuits of the first stepped switch and for any one of the sub-circuits for the second stepped switch as connected with the other of the x and y axes of the lattice of sub-circuits of the first stepped switch and of the second stepped switch, whereby at any one time a series of switches along a row of a plurality of rows along an x axis is completed in its circuit with one of the completed contacts of the second stepped switch for one series of the plurality of switches in one of a plurality of rows of switches along the y axis, thereby making it possible by selectively choosing the particular subcircuit of each of the first and second stepped switches to select a specific sub-circuit, each sub-circuit including in series therewith at least one stepped switch activatable of and deactivatable of a power circuit and preferably an indicator light, with a corresponding sub-circuit having an indicator light instead of a stepped switch, whereby the lighting of a specific indicator light is indicative of the activation position for a particular remote switch for turning on or off a particular power circuit, and when a particular power circuit has been selected, the selector switch for selecting one of the first stepped switch, or second stepped switch, or control for turning off and on power through the contacts made in the matched contacts of both of the stepped switches, is activated again so as to step to the control circuit, and then the activator for the control circuit is actuated by sucking or blowing as the case may be on the necessary tube in order to turn on the plug or alternatively to turn off the plug, thereby being a plurality of checkerboard lights matched with a plurality of checkerboard power plugs into which different electrical appliances or the like, such as a toaster, a television set, an FM radio, an AM radio, an intercom, and an automatic or remote controlled typewriter, a tape recorder, a phonograph, a telephone, a call signal for nurse or doctor, or the like are utilizable in one or more of the plurality of available plugs, any one or more of which may be operated separately or simultaneously by virtue of merely the two separate switches which may be separate such and/or blow tubes or may be a single tube of which one switch is activated by sucking and the other switch is activated by blowing.

Inventors

• 👤 R Lipskin

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