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From the Rolls-Royce experimental archive: a quarter of a million communications from Rolls-Royce, 1906 to 1960's. Documents from the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (SHRMF).
Tables specifying the operational positions, component gaps, and depression formulas for duplex push button switches.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 64\3\  scan0274
Date  25th June 1926
  
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25.6.26.
7c/c

DUPLEX PUSH BUTTON SWITCH TABLES.

Position. | Button depression. | Copper gap. | Carbon gap.
Off. | A | B | Ψ (B-C)
Carbons in contact. | A + (B-C)/θ | C | O
Coppers in contact. | A + B/θ | O | O

Specified gaps.

Position. | Button depression. | Copper gap. | Carbon gap.
Off. | A + .000 | .035 +5 -3 | .019 +13 -8
Carbons in contact. | A + .011 +7 -4 | .020 +3 -5 | O
Coppers in contact. | A + .025 +4 -2 | O | O

where A = initial button depression.

EFC/HEW.
  
  


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