Extension actuator for electrical wall switch

摘要

A device for actuating conventional toggle-type and rocker-type electrical wall switches such as light switches, particularly adapted for facilitating switch operation by children and handicapped persons who cannot reach the normal elevation at which such switches are installed, utilizes an elongated operating arm with a portion at one end for operating engagement with the switch, e.g., an opening to receive a toggle switch or a protuberance to rest in contact against a rocker switch, and a pin projecting outwardly from the other end, the arm depending downwardly from the switch flatly against the wall and constrained to longitudinal reciprocating operational movement by a pair of guiding members each affixed directly to the wall or to the wall and the switch and defining respective aligned recesses facing the wall within which the arm slides, the lowermost guiding member having an elongated slot through which the arm's pin extends outwardly for manual actuation of upward and downward sliding movement of the arm to move the switch between its on and off positions.