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Quick-install seat switch

  • US 5,424,502 A
  • Filed: 07/27/1993
  • Issued: 06/13/1995
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/27/1993
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A switch assembly for mounting to a seat pan having a non-circular seat pan cutout that extends through the seat pan comprising:

  • a) a base that includes an outer wall having an upper wall portion defining a first set of radially outwardly extending members which fit through the non-circular seat pan cutout with the base in an insertion orientation, and engage an upper surface of the seat pan with the base rotated to an installed orientation, a lower wall portion having a second set of radially outwardly extending members which abut a bottom surface of the seat pan as the upper wall portion of said base is pushed through the seat pan cutout, and an intermediate wall portion between the upper and lower wall portions having an outer perimeter that allows the base to be rotated from said insertion orientation to the installed orientation with the upper wall portion above the seat pan and the lower wall portion below the seat pan and wherein neither the first nor the second set of radially outwardly extending members can be pushed through the non-circular cutout of the seat pan; and

    b) a seat switch coupled to a surface of the base including actuation means which extends above the seat pan for actuation by an operator seated on the seat pan with the base is in the installed orientation.

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