Electric pressing iron having indicating ready light with improved switch means

Claim 1

In an electric pressing iron having a heater circuit, the iron having mounted on the top of its soleplate a temperature-sensitive switch comprising a pair of superposed, spaced aligned contact blades cantilever-mounted and extending in the same direction, the switch including an upper blade and a lower blade, the blades carrying aligned contact zones, a bimetallic element cantilever-mounted on the soleplate in heat exchange relation therewith an adapted to engage with its distal end the lower blade to move the distal end of said lower blade away from the upper blade in conditions of no-heat-demand to separate the contact zones, temperature control setting means on the iron including means to raise and lower the distal end of the upper blade, the heater circuit being operatively connected in series with the switch, and a ready light circuit including a third blade mounted cantilever-fashion and disposed between and generally aligned with the other blades, the upper blade and third blade having aligned contact points, the bimetallic element adapted in conditions approaching heat-demand to cause upward movement of the distal end of the third blade to adjacent the upper blade to close the contact points, the ready light and the contact points being operatively connected in series and across the contact zones of the upper and lower blades, the improvement whrerein the third blade is mounted on the upper side of the lower blade and the bimetallic element causes upward movement of the distal end of the third blade by permitting the lower blade to raise.