Appliance timer with contact mounting for flexible contacts

摘要

An appliance timer includes a disc-shaped program wheel. The distal ends of a plurality of resilient wire switches include a plurality of followers which extend into grooves provided in the program wheel. The bottoms of the grooves provide surfaces for controlling operation of the switches to control the appliance. The proximal ends of the switches are mounted in a terminal block in the appliance timer housing. The proximal ends of the switch components are rigidly mounted in the terminal block. The terminal block also includes longitudinally extending channels in which the various movable switch components rest. The channels provide for limited free travel of the movable switch components during their operation.