Abstract: This is concerned with a switch device which is quite thin and can be used on either a flat or a contoured surface that includes a backing member which may be dimensionally stable, either as a flexible or a stiff membrane, with a flexible membrane spaced therefrom by a flexible filled adhesive material providing one or more openings so that a circuit pattern on the backing member is spaced from a conductive shorting bar on the flexible membrane such that manual or mechanical deformation of the membrane will cause electrical conduction across or between the contacted surface in the circuit pattern with deformation being provided by the flexibility of the membrane, as well as deflection or flexing of the intermediate adhesive material.

Abstract: The combination of a calculator and a telephone set and telephone tone generating means is arranged so that the calculator drives the telephone tone generators. When the telephone is activated, for example by lifting the handset, the calculator is connected to the tone generators with operation of the calculator switches driving the tone generators. A switch is provided whereby the calculator may subsequently be operated, as a calculator, while the telephone set is being used, without operating the tone generators.SUMMARY OF THE INVENTIONThe present invention relates to the combination of a calculator and a telephone set which is so connected that the calculator drives the telephone tone generators.One purpose of the invention is a combination of the type described in which the start of the telephone operation, for example lifting the handset, connects the calculator to the telephone tone generators such that the operation of the calculator switches is effective to "dial" a telephone number.