Electricity: measuring and testing – Measuring – testing – or sensing electricity – per se – Meter protection or fraud combatting
Patent
1977-01-21
1978-10-03
Rolinec, Rudolph V.
Electricity: measuring and testing
Measuring, testing, or sensing electricity, per se
Meter protection or fraud combatting
73358, 1161145, G01R 136
Patent
active
041186672
ABSTRACT:
A method for making a heat sensitive fault detecting and indicating device for a watthour meter is disclosed herein. The illustrated method is particularly useful for a watthour meter that conventionally includes a potential stator and a current stator both of which are mounted thereon one or more permanent magnets and a rotatable disk assembly with disk rotation being recorded on the recording dials of a register assembly visible through the enclosing glass cover of the meter. The current stator of such a meter normally includes a pair of current coils that are heat responsive and a method is disclosed for providing a heat sensitive fault detecting and indicating device that may be associated with such coils. The method includes providing a layer of heatable material, such as a low melting point metal, for example, which layer is covered by a covering such as a sheath, for example, with predetermined portions of the sheath being thinned, as by embossing, for example, with a predetermined symbol or other indicia so that when a current surge is experienced at the watthour meter producing sufficient heat at the current coils, the low melting point metal melts and penetrates the thinned area of the sheath to thereafter indicate that a possibly damaging surge has been experienced by the meter. The indication that a surge has occurred is thus made readily visible at the sheath.
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Duncan Electric Co., Inc.
Karlsen Ernest F.
Nesbitt John R.
Rolinec Rudolph V.
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