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COMBINED DIVERSE SWITCHES (E.G., MANUAL-ACTUATED AND ART TYPE)

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ELECTROMAGNETICALLY ACTUATED SWITCHES

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Utilizing magnetostrictive elements

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Radio frequency switch (e.g., T/R switch)

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With coaxial components

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Automatic circuit-interrupting devices (e.g., circuit-protective devices)

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Responsive to plural diverse circuit conditions (e.g., voltage and current)

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Multipole or polyphase

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With individual latch or trip means in each leg

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With common latch or trip means

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Plural switches

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With shunting contacts

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With auxiliary switch means (e.g., for energizing coil)

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With direct connected contact separating means

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With contact biasing, holding or pressure control means

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Magnetic or electrodynamic (e.g., blowon or blowoff)

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With switch condition signalling, indicating or alarm means

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Responsive to predetermined or abnormal current condition (e.g., direction, phase angle or amplitude)

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Zero current

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Voltage responsive (under, over or no voltage)

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With latch or trip means

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Plural latch or combined latch operating means for single latch

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With diverse-type actuating means (e.g., magnetic and thermal)

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Trip-free (i.e., cannot be manually reclosed while overload exists)

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With disabling means (for contact-actuator)

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Reclosing or resetting

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Automatic combined with manual

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Automatic combined with timing or delay means

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Fluid-controlled

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Mechanical motor-controlled (e.g., clock movement)

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Thermally actuated

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With counting or integrating means (e.g., repetitive for given number of reclosures)

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With means providing for operation after variable intervals or fixed intervals of different duration (e.g., first reset occurs) instantaneously, with other at longer intervals)

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With lockout

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Plural trips or combined operating means for single trip (e.g., magnetic with thermal)

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With common structural elements

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With thermal element comprising magnetic flux source

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Magnetic

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With time delay (e.g., thermal)

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Responsive to or proportional to degree of overload condition

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With magnetic flux winding directly in series with main contacts

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With adjusting or calibrating means

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Thermal

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Including ambient temperature compensating means

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With regulating, adjusting or calibrating means

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With contact rebound or other undesirable motion prevention means

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Utilizing conductive liquid (e.g., mercury)

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Comprising three or more electrodes or circuit-completion means

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With liquid-displacement means

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Comprising plural interconnected liquid containers

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Magnetic

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Piston or plunger

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Combined with timing or delay means

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Tiltable or rotating liquid chamber

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Armature structure

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Comprising freely movable floating slug or mass

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Contact or electrode structure

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Mercury or mercury wetted

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Retarded or delayed type

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Plural sets of contacts alternately, consecutively or selectively opened or closed

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With pneumatic delay means (e.g., dashpot, etc.)

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With hydraulic delay means

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With magnetic or electromagnetically actuated delay means

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With mechanical delay means

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Motor or motor-controlled (e.g., clockwork)

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Electrothermal delay means

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Adjustable or regulatable

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With motor

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Reversible or oscillatable

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Frequency-responsive or synchronous

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Contact actuating structure

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Plural contacts

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Eccentric or cam

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Including brake, clutch or detent

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Magnetically actuated

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Comprising energy storage means (e.g., wound spring)

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With locking, latch or tripping structure

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Polarity-responsive

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Storage or memory type (e.g., bistable)

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Armature structure

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Freely movable within coil or magnetic field between poles

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Floating (i.e., no fixed pivot)

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Contact structure of composition

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Magnetic structure (e.g., saturable)

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Pole structure

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With adjusting means

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Periodic (e.g., vibrators)

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Plural periodic switches or with plural pairs of contacts

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Selectively, alternately, or consecutively actuated

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With vibrating or oscillating element damping, frequency adjusting or vibration control

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Actuating magnet structure or material

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Plural magnets

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Vibratory reed or other periodic contact actuator

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Tuned or resonant at a particular frequency

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Armature

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Adjustable

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Contact arrangement or composition

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Adjustable contacts

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Alternating or fluctuating current type

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Induction or eddy current (e.g., vane or closed conductive loop)

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Preselected or synchronous frequency responsive

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Polyphase

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With plural magnetic-actuating structures

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With chatter, bounce or vibration-prevention means

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With damping or adjustment means

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Multiple contact type

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Contacts-selectively, sequentially, alternately, or intermittently actuated

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Automatic telephone type

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Plural or multidirection mechanical selector motions

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With motion-conversion means

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Selector structure

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Crossbar type

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With holding, locking or latching means

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Rotary selector motion

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Reciprocating selector motion (e.g., sliding)

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With reset or selector-restoring means

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With operational mode-varying means

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Motor-driven

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Plural armatures

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With interlocking or mechanical connection

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Contact-actuation means

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With rotary or compound motion device (e.g., rack and pinion)

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Pawl and ratchet

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Armature structure

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Rotary armature

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Reciprocating or linearly sliding

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Simultaneously actuated

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By pivotal or rockable armature

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Movable contacts or slidable card bar or comb

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Movable contacts on circular card or comb structure

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By reciprocating armature

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With adjustable, replaceable or interchangeable structural features

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Contact structure or arrangement

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Grid or coordinate

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In pile or stack

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With plural magnet or coil means

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Of diverse type

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Step-by-step type (e.g., closure responsive to predetermined number of control pulses

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With timing or indexing means (e.g., clock mechanism)

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Ratchet and pawl-type actuator

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With electrothermal-actuating means (e.g., expansible wire)

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Fusible element

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Independently operative

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With armature positioning or adjusting

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Bimetallic element

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Thermomagnetic (e.g., device whose magnetic permeability changes with temperature)

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Electrodynamically actuated

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Moving coil type

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Plural coils

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With reset or restoring means

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Vacuum or hermetically sealed type (e.g., reed switch)

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Plural

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With permanent magnet structure

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Armature, contact or contact-actuating means (e.g., sealed reed)

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With predetermined current or voltage value-responsive actuator

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With protective means for switch or contacts

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With operation-inhibiting means (shock resistant)

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From open position

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Plural independently operable switches

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Interlocking

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With cooperative-actuating means

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With unitary housing, support or flux path

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With unitary or common magnetic flux source

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Manually or gravity-operated latch with electromagnetic trip

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Contact-actuating means unitary with latch or trip

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With latch- or trip-reset means

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Latching means

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With positive lock (against movement)

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Plural or with auxiliary latch

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Magnetically operated

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Including spring-biasing or energy-storage means

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Tripping means

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Plural diverse (e.g., manual plus electromagnet)

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Magnetically operated

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Utilizing hammer or other impacting means

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With adjusting or regulating means

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Plural magnets or flux sources

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Of diverse electrical characteristics

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Of diverse magnetic characteristics (e.g., permanent plus electromagnet)

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With common core or single armature

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Pivoted armature

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Magnetic fields opposing (e.g., differential)

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Magnetic fields or torques acting alternately in opposite directions

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With plural reciprocating armatures aligned or rigidly connected

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Contact-actuating means

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Plural or combined (e.g., manual with other)

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Unitary with armature

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Snap-action

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Mechanical linkage

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Including cam, roller or eccentric means

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Compound motion device (e.g., toggle)

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With biasing means (open or closed)

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With vibration-, bounce- or chatter-prevention means

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With pressure-maintaining or adjusting means

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Magnetic or electrodynamic force

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Contact composition or structure

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Adjustable or readily detachable

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Convertible from normally open to normally closed and vice versa

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Printed circuit

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Pivoted or relatively movable independently of the armature

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With arc-suppression or extinguishing means

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With housing or support means

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With armature structure

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Through conductor type (i.e., conductor field actuates armature)

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PERMANENT MAGNET-ACTUATED SWITCHES

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Plural switches

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Plural magnets

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Thermomagnetic

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MAGNETS AND ELECTROMAGNETS

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Electron or ion beam deflecting type

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With magnetic shunt

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With adjustable magnetic element (e.g., to change the air gap, or its position on the cathode ray tube)

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With coil structure

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With electric or magnetic-shielding means

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Magnetostrictive-type device

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Superconductive type

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Temperature-responsive type (e.g., temp. compensation means)

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With time-delay means

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Combined with diverse-type art device

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With magneto-mechanical motive device (e.g., electromagnet with armature)

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Frequency-responsive type

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With relatively movable coil and permanent magnet (e.g., D'Arsonval type) position on the cathode ray tube)

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With relatively movable conductors (e.g., dynamometer)

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Induced current-type movable conductor (e.g., eddy current member)

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Rotating disk

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Short-circuited winding

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Saturable magnetic type

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With motion-conversion means (e.g., reciprocating to rotary motion)

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With permanent magnet

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Polarized electromagnet

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Varying alternating current amplitude responsive

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With plural armatures

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With armature-locking means

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With reversible magnetic flux-type movement (e.g., bistable type)

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With vibrating reed or spring bar-type armature

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With a shunt path for magnetic flux

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Adjustable

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With auxiliary armature-movement control means (e.g., manual)

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With time delay armature-movement control means

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Dashpot type

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Auxiliary control coil

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With plural armatures selectively retarded

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Alternating current type

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Flux phase displacement or varying means

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Shading coil

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Plural winding type

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With chatter- or noise-preventing means

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Spring or cushion-type vibration absorber

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Special armature construction or mounting means (e.g., to assure positive seating of armature)

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Coil construction or mounting means

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With plunger-type armature

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With vibrating armature

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With armature latch means (e.g., means to retain armature in open or closed position

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With latch-control winding

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With plunger-type armature

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Plural coils controlling a single armature

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With shock-absorbing means (e.g., means to absorb the shock of armature or plunger)

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With armature stroke adjustment

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Plural plungers

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With sealed enclosure (e.g., dust or moistureproof)

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Armature structure or material

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With centering or aligning or guiding means

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With plunger rotation preventing means (e.g., means to prevent undesired rotation of the plunger during movement)

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Sectional plunger

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Plural armatures actuated by single electromagnetic coil

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Plural coils or magnets control armature movement

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With plural armatures

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Coils or magnets being separately or selectively controllable

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With dynamically balanced armature

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Armature-mounting means

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With armature bounce or vibration-preventing means

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Rotating disk or cylindrical armature

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With armature-adjusting means (e.g., means to adjust the relative distance between core and armature)

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With armature-biasing means or bias-adjustment means

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Hinge joint type armature-mounting means

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Pivot support type armature-mounting means

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With shock absorption, vibration or bounce-preventing means

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With casing or enclosure

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Armature shape, structure or material

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Balls, filings or granular material

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Core or pole shape, structure or material

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Coil shape, structure or material

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Blade sharpening or conditioning type magnets

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For magnetizing or demagnetizing

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Work or object holding type

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With workpiece to magnet adapted or fixture (e.g., to bridge flux)

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Angularly adjustable fixture

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Rotary-type magnetic chuck (permanent or electromagnet type)

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Electromagnet type (e.g., electromagnetic chuck)

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With circuit control means

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Lifting or attracting type (e.g., for lifting pigiron or pulling hairpins)

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Hermetically sealed or moisture-proofed

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Hand-held type

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With outer casing or housing

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With magnetic-hold control means (e.g., means to control the hold strength)

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Magnet structure or material

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Core structure

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Movable or adjustable cores

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Coil structure or material

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With cooling means

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With electric- or magnetic-shielding means

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Permanent magnets

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Enclosed in flexible plastic, cloth or tape

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With flux leakage-reducing means

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Magnetic plug type (e.g., crankcase plug)

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Plural magnets

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