Electricity: electrothermally or thermally actuated switches – Electrothermally actuated switches – With bimetallic elements
Patent
1984-07-16
1986-02-11
Broome, Harold
Electricity: electrothermally or thermally actuated switches
Electrothermally actuated switches
With bimetallic elements
337 3, 337381, H01H 6101, H01H 7108
Patent
active
045701458
ABSTRACT:
Temperature responsive control apparatus includes a body portion, a socket portion, a circuit portion, a connecting portion, a temperature responsive portion and a fastening portion. The body portion includes a housing member including a front face section, a plurality of sidewall sections and a rear section. The socket portion includes a plurality of openings in the front face section with 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 includes a contact section within the body portion adjacent each socket opening. The connecting portion includes positive and neutral contact terminals disposed on an outer surface of a sidewall or rear section of the body portion with each contact section of one group of socket openings being connected electrically to a different contact terminal. The temperature responsive portion includes a bi-metal thermostat disposed outside the body portion adjacent the rear section thereof with two electrical leads extending from the thermostat. One of the leads has a free end affixed to one of the contact terminals with the other of the contact terminals and a free end of the other of the leads of the thermostat being connectable to an electrical power source. The fastening portion includes flange sections extending from opposite sidewall sections adjacent the front face section.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3913046 (1975-10-01), Davis et al.
patent: 4091352 (1978-05-01), Robertson et al.
Broome Harold
Urban Arthur L.
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