Steering wheel switch and electrical interconnection assembly

A steering mechanism for a steerable vehicle including a body structure having a fore-and-aft direction, comprising

• a hollow steering column tube held stationary with respect to said body structure,
• a steering shaft axially extending in and through said steering column tube and having a rear end portion projecting rearwardly from the column tube, the steering shaft having a center axis therethrough and being rotatable about the center axis,
• a steering wheel structure rotatable with the steering shaft about said center axis and including a hub portion secured to said rear end portion,
• a switch support structure having an electric switch assembly supported thereon, the switch support structure being rotatable about an extension of said center axis with respect to each of the steering column tube, the steering shaft and the steering wheel structure,
• first spool means fixed with respect to said switch support structure and having two outer peripheral surface portions which are substantially distinct from each other along the extension of said center axis,
• second spool means fixed with respect to said steering column tube and having two outer peripheral surface portions which are substantially distinct from each other along the extension of said center axis, and
• two flexible lines each anchored at one end thereof to said first spool means and at the other end thereof to said second spool means,
• one of the flexible lines being partially wound in one direction on one of the two outer peripheral surface portions of said first spool means and on one of the two outer peripheral surface portions of said second spool means,
• the other of said flexible lines being partially wound in the other direction on the other of said two outer peripheral surface portions of said first spool means and on the other of said two outer peripheral surface portions of said second spool means.