Electricity: circuit makers and breakers – Liquid contact – Time delay
Patent
1985-05-01
1987-01-27
Macon, Robert S.
Electricity: circuit makers and breakers
Liquid contact
Time delay
200304, 200305, 200306, H01H 3304
Patent
active
046395644
ABSTRACT:
A circuit breaker with arc chamber vent characterized by a molded insulating housing containing circuit breaker means and an arc quenching chamber, the housing having wall means forming a compartment containing a terminal, and the wall means having gas vent opening communicating between the chamber and the compartment and a tubular wall surrounding the terminal for preventing any arc gases exhausting from the chamber into the compartment from causing electrical breakdown between the terminal and any proximate conductor.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2225791 (1940-12-01), Nau et al.
patent: 2727965 (1955-12-01), Toth et al.
patent: 3171936 (1965-03-01), Jencks et al.
Grunert Kurt A.
Leone David A.
Paton Charles R.
Walker Roger E.
Johns L. P.
Macon Robert S.
Westinghouse Electric Corp.
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