Patent ID: 7202429

Claim:
A switching device of a type that has a casing with an upwardly opening casing cavity, a switching mechanism lying in said casing, an operating member that is moveable to operate said switching mechanism, a light lying above at least part of said operating member and having a pair of light terminals, and at least two energizing conductors mounted on said casing for carrying electricity to said light, wherein: said energizing conductors each has a top part that lies above a part of said operating member and that engages one of said light terminals, each energizing conductor having a leg that extends downwardly to the bottom of said casing, and each energizing conductor having a lug that lies at the bottom of its leg and that forms a terminal; said operating member has an operator base and a pair of laterally spaced protuberances projecting upward from laterally opposite sides of said base and leaving an operator cavity between said protuberances; said energizing conductors are each formed of a piece of sheet metal, the top part of each of said energizing conductors having side portions lying at longitudinally opposite sides of said operating member and said top parts having tongues projecting towards each other into said operator cavity, said side portions each extending laterally to a top of one of said legs.