Patent ID: 8410384

Claim:
An actuating device ( 1 ) for generating an electrical switching signal, the device comprising a housing ( 2 ), a cover ( 4 ) accessible from outside said housing and attached to said housing, and held in a swiveling arrangement in a groove ( 8 ) in said housing ( 2 ), and a switching contact ( 6 ) attached in an interior ( 21 ) of said housing ( 2 ), and moveable from an initial position into a switching position by closure of said cover ( 4 ); and abutment means ( 11 ) facing towards said cover ( 4 ) is/are attached to a base ( 23 ) of said housing ( 2 ), and is provided with a support surface ( 17 ) corresponding to swiveling movement of said cover ( 4 ) mounted in the groove ( 8 ), and one or more bearing bodies ( 12 ) is/are attached to said cover ( 4 ) which, when said cover ( 4 ) is mounted, each make contact with one of the support surfaces ( 17 ) of said abutment means ( 11 ) and are thereby supported when said cover ( 4 ) is actuated; wherein said abutment means ( 11 ) comprise first and second webs ( 13 , 14 ) arranged at right angles to one another; wherein said first web ( 13 ) projects at right angles from the base ( 23 ) of said housing ( 2 ) into the interior ( 21 ); wherein the support surface ( 17 ) for holding a bearing body ( 12 ) attached to said cover is disposed on a second web and the support surface ( 17 ), and runs at right angles to a lengthways axis ( 3 ) of said housing ( 2 ); and wherein a cross-sectional surface of the groove ( 8 ) is semicircular in shape, and a bead ( 9 ) with a semicircular cross section is disposed on said cover ( 4 ), and is adapted to the inner contour of the groove ( 8 ), and is inserted into the groove ( 8 ) in an assembled condition; and the groove ( 8 ) and said bead ( 9 ) form a common axis of rotation ( 10 ) which extends parallel to the lengthways axis ( 3 ) of said housing ( 2 ).