Electrical toggle switch lever extender

Claim 1

In an electrical toggle switch lever extender for use in association with a toggle switch cover plate of the type having an elongated opening for the passage of a toggle switch lever, the improvement comprising, an actuating member receivable in said elongated opening in the cover plate for reciprocative motion with respect thereto in the direction of the major axis of said elongated opening, said actuating member comprising a knob portion at the outside of the cover plate and a recessed carrier portion at the inside of the the cover plate for the reception of an electrical toggle switch lever to be extended, said actuating member knob portion comprising a knob member integrally formed with slide abutment means receivable in the cover plate opening for constraining said knob member to rectilinear sliding movement therein, said recessed carrier portion comprising a separate carrier member, and means for removably attaching said carrier member with respect to said knob member at zones thereof within said cover plate opening, said carrier member comprising a hollow rectangular body portion having a terminal end portion defining said recess opening, said carrier member body portion being integrally formed, at the inner end thereof, with a pair of opposed, angularly-outwardly-extending wing portions, said wing portions projecting beyond the outer surface of the inside of said body portion and terminating in a plane parallel with the plane of said body portion outer surface.