Electricity: electrothermally or thermally actuated switches – Electrothermally actuated switches – With bimetallic elements
Patent
1984-03-30
1985-08-27
Broome, Harold
Electricity: electrothermally or thermally actuated switches
Electrothermally actuated switches
With bimetallic elements
337 3, 337381, H01H 3704
Patent
active
045381348
ABSTRACT:
Temperature responsive control apparatus including a housing portion, a socket portion, a circuit portion, a temperature responsive portion, a connecting portion and a fastening portion; the housing portion including an enclosure member including a major face section, sidewall sections and a cover section forming a chamber; the socket portion including a plurality of openings in the enclosure member, the openings being arranged into groups of at least two adjacent openings with each group providing a combination of openings mateable with an electrical plug member; the circuit portion including at least two spaced buss bar members, each of the buss bar members including a contact section adjacent each end thereof extending in one direction therefrom toward the socket openings and terminating adjacent thereto, one of the contact sections that extends from one of the buss bar members being disposed adjacent a socket opening of each socket opening group and one of the contact sections that extends from another buss bar member being disposed adjacent a second socket opening of each socket opening group, the temperature responsive portion including a bi-metal thermostat disposed within the chamber and having one contact thereof connected to one of the buss bar members; the connecting portion including positive and neutral contact terminals, a contact terminal extending from one of the buss bar members, and another of the contact terminals extending from a second contact of the bi-metal thermostat.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3546650 (1970-12-01), Purer
Broome Harold
Urban Arthur L.
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