Electricity: circuit makers and breakers – Multiple circuit control – Reciprocating contact
Patent
1993-09-24
1996-04-16
Kincaid, Kristine L.
Electricity: circuit makers and breakers
Multiple circuit control
Reciprocating contact
200 1R, 200 17R, 200 18, 200527, 200 50C, H01H 118, H01H 926
Patent
active
055084800
ABSTRACT:
A modular electrical switch provides a wiping or shearing action upon closing and opening thereof. A contact carrier disposed within a housing linearly carries a movable contact into engagement with a stationary contact. The contact carrier is guided by movable slide plates disposed on either side thereof and movable along with the contact carrier as a contact assembly. The guide plates also provide pivot recesses for pivot bosses of the contact carrier. The contact carrier is constrained to linear motion up to the point of contact between the movable contact and the stationary contact by a cam trace in the housing. After contact between the movable contact and the stationary contact, the contact carrier reaches a pocket defined by the cam trace, ceases linear movement and upwardly pivots to provide a wiping action between the movable contact and the stationary contact. Immediately upon reversed, pivoting and linear motion of the contact carrier a shearing action is provided between the movable contact and the stationary contact. A plurality of such modular switches are utilized in a freight elevator interlock system for regulating the opening and closing of the various doors and carriage of the freight elevator. A common sliding actuator controls the modular switches regardless of the orientation of the respective switches within the housing.
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Photographs of Peelle 0355067 UB-1A Interlock & Zone Switch and Peelle 0367 23 Jun. 1993.
Zone Contactor 5 make & 1 break contacts The Peelle Company Brochure 1 Mar. 1953.
Friedhofer Michael A.
JPB Enterprises, Inc.
Kincaid Kristine L.
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