Trigger-lock control

A lock control in combination with a trigger-actuated motor control switch for a power tool, comprising a trigger and a rigidly connected elongated slide portion, a housing for switch components, said slide portion reciprocatably mounted in said housing, said switch components in said housing including separated electrical power-on and power-off contacts longitudinally aligned along said slide portion, means operatively connected with said slide portion for moving horizontally between said contacts for changing connection with said contacts upon reciprocation of said slide portion, spring means urging said trigger and slide portion in a first predetermined contact position relative to one of said contacts, said slide portion being reciprocatable to a second contact position relative to the other of said contacts, a locking member on said slide portion near the upper edge thereof to lock said slide portion when said tool is in non-working position, an oscillatable lever providing lock means having a horizontal pivot on the top of said housing guiding said lock means into engagement with said locking member when said slide portion is in one of said contact positions, and an actuator member integral with said oscillatable lever and having an actuatingly engageable portion easily operated by a hand grasping said tool;

• whereby an operator may grasp said tool and move said actuator member to disengage said lock means from said locking member, and then by said trigger, reciprocate said slide portion into said second contact position.