Patent ID: 7700888

Claim:
A switch for mounting within a wall box comprising: a body having a mounting strap adapted to be coupled to said wall box; and a frameless paddle having a face surface and opposing back surface, an upper end and a lower end, the paddle pivotably coupled at the upper end to said body and biased at the lower end away from said wall box, said back surface having top, bottom and side edges and said face surface having a bottom edge; the paddle having a vertical axis extending along its length from the upper end to the lower end and a horizontal axis along its width; wherein the face of the paddle along its vertical axis has a shape of positive first differential comprised of a combination of splines drawn between points of varying distance from a datum plane, said datum plane defined as crossing said top, bottom and side edges of said back surface; and wherein the paddle has a bottom edge wall extending between the bottom edges of said face and back surfaces of the paddle without any protrusions extending beyond an outside face of the bottom edge wall.