Circuit breaker with interlock for welded contacts
CA 2069798 A1 · Owner: Westinghouse Electric Corporation · Inventors: Beatty, William Ellsworth, Jr.; Pipich, Charles Willam
Overview
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A circuit breaker includes an interlock which prevents movement of the handle to the off position when the contacts are welded closed. The interlock includes a pair of floating links which jam between slots in arms of the yoke of a spring powered operating mechanism which carries the handle, and recesses in the rotatable cross-bar carrying the movable contact arms. The recesses are offset from the rotational axis of cross-bar so that an attempt to move the switch to the off position generates a moment which will break open lightly welded contacts.
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Why it's free to use
- Filed May 28, 1992. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended May 28, 2012.
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