Abstract: A cable transfer system for a telephone central office main frame and cable vault. A cable transfer panel for permanent or temporary connection to the main frame while positioned remote from the main frame, and providing for interconnection of up to 200 line pairs at a time with a single switch operation for each interconnection. A cable transfer panel also providing for cross connecting of line pairs and for connecting of test equipment to the line pairs, as desired.

Abstract: A cross connect panel having a switchable slider assembly for positive engagement and disengagement of the loads to the supply buses. A resilient detent mechanism is provided for positive indexing of the slider assembly in alignment position with the various supply buses. The parallel supply buses are held in place by a system of bus holders and interlocking spacers and the bus bar assembly is held together by bolts through the interlocking spacers, thereby avoiding the necessity of drilling bolt holes in the bus bars and providing proper insulation therefor.

Abstract: A switch for speed control of an electric motor driven vehicle employs a combination of resistance switching, field weakening and voltage switching. A mechanical switch assembly has a speed switch and a voltage switch that are interconnected so that the voltage switch provides 36 volts when the speed switch is in neutral and fifth speed position and provides 18 volts when the speed switch is in first through fourth speed positions. The speed switch has an operator controlled rotor arm that successively engages a neutral contact and five driving speed contacts so that varying resistance is inserted in circuit with the motor armature in the first two speed positions and no external resistance is employed in the third and fifth speed positions. The motor field comprises pairs of first and second oppositely disposed series wound coils with the pairs of coils all connected and energized in series in all but the fourth speed position.

Abstract: A calculator type keyboard includes push-button switch mechanisms formed as integral parts of a conductive web. Each of the mechanisms includes support arms intersecting in a crisscross configuration only a portion of which is deformed in a dome-like contour. Contact blades extend from the intersection of the support arms and have ends coupled to adjacent support arms by bridge members. As the switch mechanism is depressed to various degrees, the supported contact blades make contact with respective binary code conductors, the dome-like contour deflects through a snap action position and finally the apex of the dome-like contour makes contact with a centrally located flag contact. Although closure of the contact blades and code conductors is maintained, radial wiping movements of the contact blades across the surfaces of the code conductors occur.

Abstract: A cross connect panel includes a base supply section and a plurality of load-connector modules mounted transverse the base supply section. The base supply section comprises a plurality of bus bars arranged side-by-side in spaced, parallel, mutually insulated relationship within a channel formed by approximately parallel side support members. Each of the transverse modules includes one or more slider assemblies adapted to interconnect, through electrical contacts, a bus bar with an external load. The length of the base section is determined solely by the number of transverse modules desired in the system and the length of the transverse modules is determined by the number of supply bus bars included in the system. The slider assemblies are self-contained, and when mounted, are captive in vertical, horizontal and lateral directions. Moreover, these assemblies are capable of effecting an "off" mode at any transverse location with respect to the bus bars.

Abstract: A low profile keyboard switch with tactile feel and short key travel is disclosed. The keyboard may be a matrix connected keyboard and includes a lower, fixed contact and an upper, concave contact. The concave contact is supported at one end and operates as a cantilever beam. When pressure is applied by a key, at the unsupported end to cause buckling of the concave contact at its supported end, electrical contact is made with the lower fixed contact. The concave contacts possess the key return force and the snap action desirable for tactile feel and short key travel for a low-profile, low-cost keyboard switch.

Abstract: A multiple switch device is connectable on-line between a multiple conductor electrical cable termination assembly or the like and a receptacle or the like to which the assembly would otherwise be connected. The multiple switch device includes a plurality of slide switches that are selectively actuable to open or to close respective circuits between such assembly and such receptacle.

Abstract: A driving power source and one or more load circuits are arranged in prescribed terminal contact with a revolving ball comprised of a pair of electro-conductive hemispheres and an intervening electro-insulating portion in such an arrangement that activation of each of the load circuits is switched on and off, polarity of the activation being controlled as desired by manual turning of the ball in selected directions and each hemisphere being always charged differently from the other through the terminal contact with the driving power source circuit.

Abstract: There is disclosed a single wire multiple shot selective fire perforating gun for piercing oil field tubular goods, typically during the process of completing an oil or gas well. A switch in the gun electrically isolates an associated blasting cap and short circuits the terminals thereof until the associated blasting cap and perforating element are armed. A plurality of blasting cap-perforating element assemblages are vertically disposed on the tool with the detonation of one perforating element arming the next adjacent blasting cap.

Abstract: A push-button switch has a spring contact plate and a circuit board in superposed position. The spring contact plate has one or more switch positions, each switch position comprising a prestressed domed portion surrounded by a common flat sheet portion. The spring contacts of each prestressed dome portion selectively engage peripheral contact areas on the circuit board followed by the central contact portion engaging subsequently with a further fixed central contact area on the circuit board. Accordingly, plural inputs of electronic logic circuits may be preselected prior to simultaneous activation upon subsequent closure of the central contacts at a given switch position. Release of the push button enables the domed portion to snap back to the stable position.

Abstract: An electrical switch having a plurality of means adapted to be movable generally sequentially for switching power through the electrical switch. A plurality of means are adapted to be conjointly and relatively movable disposed in cascaded articulated relation between the switching means at least some of the movable means being conjointly movable relative to at least some of the others thereof for effecting the sequential operation of the switching means. Methods and a system for generally effecting sequential operation of the switching means are also disclosed.