Gas circuit breaker

Details Gas circuit breaker Gas circuit breaker

1977-05-17

1981-01-20

Macon, Robert S.

Electricity: circuit makers and breakers

Liquid contact

Time delay

200148B, 200148R, H01H 3388

Patent

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042464595

ABSTRACT:
In a gas circuit breaker of the type in which compressed gas is blasted about an arc generated by the separation of at least a pair of relatively movable contacts, there are provided an arc extinguishing chamber, a stationary contact mounted on the inside wall of the chamber, an operating rod located in the chamber, a movable contact disposed to oppose the stationary contact and moved by the operating rod, a device for creating a blast of compressed gas when the contacts are separated, and a plurality of partition plates separated from each other in the direction of the movement of the movable contact. The partition plates are provided with gas passing passages and function to channel the compressed gas and blast it about the arc at a plurality of spaced apart interrupting points.

REFERENCES:
patent: 2660647 (1953-11-01), Rawlins
patent: 3291948 (1966-12-01), Telford
patent: 3927350 (1975-12-01), McConnell
patent: 3946180 (1976-03-01), Votta et al.

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