Patent ID: 9177732
Filing Date: 2015-11-03
Classification: H01H

Abstract:
1. A remote switching assembly for use with an electrical switch having a switch operator movable along an actuation axis, the remote switching assembly comprising: an actuator frame presenting a longitudinal channel extending along a longitudinal axis and attachment elements for attaching the actuator frame to a housing of an electrical switch adjacent to the switch operator so that the longitudinal axis is substantially parallel to the actuation axis; a slider fitting within the longitudinal channel of the actuator frame to slide therein along the longitudinal axis, the slider providing a collar receiving the switch operator when the actuator frame is fixed to the housing of the electrical switch, so that movement of the slider along the actuation axis may switch the switch operator between on and off states; a flexible cable assembly providing a sheath surrounding a flexible cable, the sheath and the flexible cable providing flange elements attached thereto and having features extending radially from axes of extension of the sheath and flexible cable; wherein the actuator frame provides a key way extending across the longitudinal axis receiving the flange element of the sheath to retain the sheath against movement in the longitudinal direction with respect to the actuator frame and the slider provides a key way extending across the longitudinal axis receiving the flange element of the flexible cable to retain the flexible cable against movement in the longitudinal direction with respect to the slider.