Patents Assigned to Gettig Engineering & Manufacturing Co.
  • Patent number: 4348556
    Abstract: A multi-position switch includes a movable actuator rod projecting from one end of a housing and having a cylindrical contactor disc within the housing displaceable into a plurality of radial positions to actuate a selected one or a selected pair of circuits as the contactor engages and radially deflects adjacent ones of a plurality of resilient contacts arranged concentrically about the actuator rod. The displacement of the rod and its disc is regulated by an encircling control element provided with alternate radial crests and valleys. Groups of adjacent contacts are electrically joined in series such that displacement of the disc into a control element valley axially aligned with any one group of contacts closes one circuit while displacement into either adjacent control element valley closes an alternate circuit involving two adjacent series of contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1982
    Assignee: Gettig Engineering & Manufacturing Co.
    Inventors: William A. Gettig, Larry E. Shook