Electric liquid heating appliance
AssigneeTI Russell Hobbs Limited
InventorsMichael Inskip, Alan Warren
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Abstract
The appliance, e.g. an electric kettle, has a body shell, a heating element within the body shell and a switch housing mounted on the outside of the body shell. A switch operating member or dolly is supported relative to the switch housing and is operable to open and close a pair of switching contacts for interrupting and making respectively an electrically conductive path, which includes the heating element, between a pair of terminal pins. The dolly can rock about a pivot between two positions and is urged against the pivot by a leaf spring acting between the dolly and a support. The housing includes the pivot and the support and is formed as an integral plastics moulding.
Claims4
An electric liquid heating appliance comprising a body shell, a heating element within the body shell and having two ends which project through the body shell, a switch housing mounted on the outside of the body shell, a switch operating member supported relative to the switch housing and operable to open and close a pair of switching contacts for interrupting and making respectively an electrically conductive path, which includes the heating element, between a pair of terminal pins, a pivot about which the switch operating member can rock between first and second positions and against which the switch operating member is urged by a spring means acting between the switch operating member and a support, and means on said switch housing providing said pivot and said support, said switch housing being formed as an integral plastics moulding to fix the relative locations of said pivot and said support.
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