Low profile push-button mechanical remote control

A push button actuator for attachment to the end of a Bowden type cable remote control of the type having a control wire longitudinally slidable inside a cable sleeve and spring means urging the cable to a retracted position in the cable sleeve, comprising:

• a frame, a plunger reciprocable in said frame through an actuating stroke, the said cable sleeve being supported to said frame, and a lever connected to the said control wire and pivoted to said frame for movement between a normal position and a depressed position thereby to pull the control wire from the cable sleeve against the said spring means, said lever having an edge distal to said sleeve end, said plunger having a lower end and said lever having a camming contact zone intermediate said sleeve end and said distal edge;
• the control wire having an exposed wire portion extending from said cable sleeve transversely to said actuating stroke to a wire end secured to said lever at said distal edge, said lower end being in camming engagement with said camming contact zone during said actuating stroke for turning said lever from said normal position to said depressed position thereby to displace the wire through the sleeve, characterized in that said camming contact zone is displaced across said exposed wire portion during said actuating stroke, and said lower end of the plunger and said camming contact zone of the lever are bifurcated for admitting said exposed wire portion through an end slot in said lever and into another end slot in said plunger.