Patent ID: 7170022

Claim:
An architectural preset rotary and slide control device comprising: an N-mode latch having a plunger which can be depressed to a number of positions where N is an integer equal to 2 or greater; a switch having a pole terminal and a plurality of receiving terminals where the switch is mechanically coupled to the plunger of the N-mode latch and the N-mode latch can be sequentially set to a plurality of modes by depressing the plunger where, depending on the number of times that the plunger is depressed, the pole terminal of the switch is coupled to one of the plurality of receiving terminals thereby setting the switch into a particular switch mode; and a variable control component electrically coupled to the switch where the amount of electrical energy that is routed through the switch is controlled by the mode to which the switch is set and wherein the plunger can be depressed to a number of positions which can be different than the number of N-modes in the latch.