Abstract:
An adapter for mounting an electric socket or the like in a panel board. The adapter is shaped to receive and hold the socket. Spaced lugs extend outwardly from opposite sides of the adapter and engage the rear side of the panel. First and second flanges also extend outwardly from the adapter adjacent the lugs for holding the appliance against the front side of the panel. The flanges are fastened to the adapter by resilient, outwardly biased segments that hold the flanges in engagement with the front side of the panel. The biased segments may be releasably moved toward the adapter to install or remove the adapter from the panel board thereby allowing the socket to be wired prior to the time it is mounted in the panel board.
Abstract:
An improved push button switch includes a single body plate with assembled push rods or actuators fastened to the single body plate and cooperable with moving disc members, a ratchet and spring, or biasing means. The disc members are held in position by a bracket, the bracket also being fastened to the single body plate. Contact blocks are fastened to the outside of the bracket and cooperate with assembled contact cam block members of the push rods or actuators. Biasing leaf springs of the contact blocks cooperate with the actuators to facilitate switching action. A push button fastens to the end of the actuators to secure alignment of the actuators through a front plate of the switch and provide a manual interface to the operator.