Method of joining thin and thick switch members
AssigneeRobertshaw Controls Company
InventorEdgar E. Marquis
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Abstract
A joint construction of two members each having one surface thereof disposed against a surface of the other member. One of the members has a part thereof punched through an unblanked part of the other member beyond the other surface of the other member, the part of the one member being subsequently staked to the other surface of the other member to secure the members together.
Claims7
A method of joining a relatively thin metal switch blade member to a relatively thick terminal member to form as assembly for an electrical switch comprising the steps of disposing one surface of said terminal member against one surface of one end of the switch blade member, punching a part of said terminal member through an unblanked part of said one surface of said one end of said switch blade member so that said part of said terminal member extends beyond the opposed surface of said switch blade member, and staking said part of said terminal member to said opposed surface of said switch blade member to secure said members together whereby the other end of said switch blade member is carried in cantilevered fashion by said terminal member to perform a contact switching function.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.