US PATENT SUBCLASS 337 / 318
.~.~.~.~ Snap-action

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337 /   HD   ELECTRICITY: ELECTROTHERMALLY OR THERMALLY ACTUATED SWITCHES

298  DF  THERMALLY ACTUATED SWITCHES {7}
306  DF  .~ Expansible or vaporizable fluid actuated {12}
312  DF  .~.~ With manual or other mechanical contact control means {4}
317  DF  .~.~.~ With spring or other energy storage means {1}
318.~.~.~.~ Snap-action {1}
319  DF  .~.~.~.~.~> With adjusting, calibrating or compensating means

DEFINITION

Classification: 337/318

(under subclass 317) Subject matter wherein the contact control means is specifically recited as comprising a snap action device.

(1) Note. For other snap action mechanisms used in devices of this class see the subclasses listed under SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS in subclass 53.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

62, Refrigeration, appropriate subclasses, especially

4, 5, 156, and 235.1 for refrigerator control devices utilizing a snap action switch of the bellows type.

200, Electricity: Circuit Makers and Breakers,

402+, for snap switches, per se, and subclass 83 for fluid pressure switches with diaphragm controlled snap action. 335, Electricity: Magnetically Operated Switches, Magnets, and Electromagnets,

188, for electromagnetic switches with snap action contact actuating means.

439, Electrical Connectors,

180, for an electrical connector with provision for the contact thereof to move with respect to the rest of the device and away from the mating contact quickly, i.e., by snap or quick-break action.