Abstract:
Time switch is arranged on a plug-in unit for a system housing containing various side-by-side unit components. The time switch includes a rotatable timing disk disposed for rotation about a lateral axis longitudinal of the housing and having a circumferential portion exposed exterior of a front plate of the plug-in unit. The disk is circumferentially formed with time range scale markings and has adjustable switch riders attached along the circumference for selectively triggering control switch as the disk rotates.
Abstract:
A multi-range timer switch device has a rotatable switching disc or drum carrying a number of programmable switch actuators for actuating a stationary switch and has a dial face with two scale divisions thereon for designating elapsed time, and has a coupling device interconnected between the time disc or barrel and at least two drive trains for respectively rotating the disc or barrel at different speeds. When said coupling is shifted from one drive speed to the other, the corresponding dial face having appropriate scale divisions is made visible. The scale divisions of the dial face can assume only one position relative to the switching disc or drum so that the divisions can be unambiguously and easily set to the appropriate time when a shift is made from one drive speed to the other.
Abstract:
An indexing unit in the form of a disc or an endless tape for switching chronometers has a number of programmable switch tabs disposed at an edge of the element forming a unitary structure, the switch tabs being depressable against the influence of a restoring force for positioning selected tabs in at least one programming position for actuating a separate switch device for switching a chronometer. The indexing element is comprised of flexible foil having a number of uniformly spaced incisions at an edge thereof. Each tab formed between successive incisions has a free end which may be pressed behind a retaining element for programming the indexing element.
Abstract:
A switch programming mechanism is afforded by means of an endless switch chain. The switch chain is provided with switch riders or triggers serving as mechanical abutments for the actuation of the switch. The switch chain may be formed with tooth elements having truncated inner ends and being axially displaceable on their interconnection means relative to one another. The switch chain is particularly well suited for fitting within the confines of a ordinal-display switch clock and for controlling the operation thereof.
Abstract:
An electrical appliance switch has a switchable contact assembly and a switch controller. An actuator is in contact with the switch controller and has detent toothing on at least a portion thereof. A longitudinal adjustment cam has at least one notch for frictionally engaging the detent toothing. The adjustment cam has an oblong tubular configuration for surrounding a portion of the actuator and has a closed bottom end. The adjustment cam contacts the switchable contact assembly. Adjustment of the adjustment cam substantially sets a lead path of the actuator. The actuator cam has at least one cam face which has a slanting plane configuration for contacting the switchable contact assembly. Adjusting the actuation cam causes the cam face to change a transmission ratio of a longitudinal displacement path of the actuation cam to a cam spread displacement.
Abstract:
In a programmable control means for switching timers or chronometers, a magnetic field sensor having a ferromagnetically alloyed wire is disposed on a program carrier. A coil is brought into the proximity of the wire. A permanent magnet adjacent thereto has a magnetic field which influences the core polarity of the wire such that the coil emits voltage pulses given polarity changes therein for the control of an electric or of an electronic switch. According to the invention the sensor wire is releasably disposed on the program carrier.
Abstract:
A time-controlled heat regulator has the capability of controlling a heat supply so as to lower the temperature of a heated area during nighttime and to increase the supply of heat in dependence upon outside temperature to begin raising the temperature of the heated area in advance of a point in time at which the heated area is desired to attain a specified temperature. The heat regulator has a time-controlled variable resistor interconnected in a bridge circuit, the variable resistor being cut into the circuit at the beginning of a longest chronologically possible heat-up phase dependent on the outside temperature. The resistance of the variable resistor changes over time until reaching coincidence with the resistance value of an outside temperature sensor. The length of time of the heat-up phase is thus dimensioned backwardly from the time of reaching the desired area temperature as a function of the prevailing outside temperature.
Abstract:
Manually actuatable means are provided for programming or time setting a digital-electronic time switch device which utilizes an analog program input eliminating the need for a separate data display terminal. The time setting system includes a manually adjustable dial assembly having at least one adjustable indicator arm movable about an annular time marking scale and connected through a train to a command encoder. The command encoder includes a wheel connected to the dial train for forward or backward rotation. The wheel is suitably constructed, such as by radial slits to code dial assembly settings for triggering a digital information transducer, such as an opto-electronic device, which signals an electronic counter. The electronic counter adjusts the device data memory by specific time units in relation to the digital information received by the command encoder. The dial assembly inherently indicates the adjusted time setting to the operator in readily observable analog form.
Abstract:
A key contact set includes a plurality of electrical key contacts having key buttons, and includes a cover plate with a plurality of key openings through which the respective key buttons project. The key openings and the key buttons each have the shape of a segment of a circle, an ellipse, or a similarly shaped figure. The marking associated with each key is provided on the cover plate in the complementary segment of the circle, ellipse, or other figure. The portion of the cover plate surrounding each key is preferably bent forwardly or rearwardly from the main plane of the cover plate to define a curved surface, and each key button preferably is provided with a service surface having substantially the same radius of curvature as the bent portion of the cover plate.
Abstract:
In a program carrier for switching chronometer means comprising a motor-driven drum which comprises a plurality of switch elements at its circumference that can be displaced between an active and an inactive position and which interact with a sampler in their active position for the control of a switch, the switch elements are integrally connected to the drum via movable arms.