Contact assembly including spring loaded cam follower overcenter

Electricity: magnetically operated switches – magnets – and electr – Electromagnetically actuated switches – Automatic circuit-interrupting devices

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335195, 335190, H01H 6102

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044881339

ABSTRACT:
A so-called blow-off type current limiting circuit breaker is constructed with a contact pressure spring that also holds the contact arm in open contact position when the contacts are blown open by electrodynamic forces. A multi-section cam means transmits contact opening and closing forces produced by a spring powered overcenter toggle type operating mechanism to the movable contact arm. A follower on the latter is biased into engagement with the cam means by the contact pressure spring. The cam means is so constructed that during contact blow-off the movable contact arm requires relatively little motion to move overcenter in the opening direction. One section of the cam means is constructed so that when the contact arm moves overcenter in the opening direction during contact blowoff, speed of the contact arm is controlled to an extent that contact rebound does not become a problem. Another section of the cam means is constructed so that with the line of action of the contact pressure spring extending lengthwise of the contact arm, a strong component of force is developed transverse to the length of the contact arm to urge the contacts into butt-type engagement.

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