Circuit breaker with automatically adjustable contact pressure

Details Circuit breaker with automatically adjustable contact pressure Circuit breaker with automatically adjustable contact pressure

1975-06-13

1976-08-10

Tolin, Gerald P.

Electricity: circuit makers and breakers

Fluid pressure

Piston

200337, 200260, H01H 3538

Patent

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039743497

ABSTRACT:
A switch or circuit breaker that provides a high contact pressure when closed and provides a reduced and automatically regulated contact pressure during opening and closing. In one embodiment a pair of contacts is mounted opposite one another and one of the contacts is carried at one end of a pivotably mounted lever so that it can move towards and away from the other by a movement of the other end of the lever. A fluid operated cylinder arrangement is provided to move the switch blade from a first disengaged position to a second engaged position between the blades. The cylinder is mounted on a mechanical linkage so that the linkage is deflected in accordance with the resistance of the blade to movement, and the deflection of the linkage moves the lever tending to decrease contact pressure. A balance is reached between contact pressure and the blade movement tending to maintain a constant and reduced contact pressure during opening and closing.

REFERENCES:
patent: 2972337 (1961-02-01), Coggeshall
patent: 3062934 (1962-11-01), Nijland
patent: 3137778 (1964-06-01), Barr

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