Electricity: circuit makers and breakers – Switch activation inhibitor – Actuator blocking device
Patent
1990-03-23
1991-09-03
Recla, Henry J.
Electricity: circuit makers and breakers
Switch activation inhibitor
Actuator blocking device
200325, 200339, H01H 920
Patent
active
050456482
ABSTRACT:
A lock having depending sides with holes therein is snap fit attached to a rocker actuator by causing the sides to straddle the actuator and the holes to receive beveled lateral tabs on the actuator, the holes being longer than the tabs to permit and define sliding movement of the lock on the actuator. Four feet depend from the depending sides of the lock within a housing opening in which the actuator is pivotally mounted to abuttingly align with corresponding abutments in the housing on opposite sides of the pivotal axis of the actuator, preventing rotational movement of the actuator when the lock is in a first position with respect thereto under the bias of a compression spring. The actuator is released by sliding the lock against the bias of the spring to move the feet radially offset from the abutments, thereby permitting rotational movement of the actuator in either direction, actuating corresponding switch contacts.
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Barrett Glenn T.
Eaton Corporation
Recla Henry J.
Vande Zande L. G.
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