Puffer-type gas-blast circuit breaker

Details Puffer-type gas-blast circuit breaker Puffer-type gas-blast circuit breaker

1977-06-02

1979-07-10

Macon, Robert S.

Electricity: circuit makers and breakers

Liquid contact

Time delay

200150G, H01H 3370, H01H 3388

Patent

active

041608887

ABSTRACT:
A puffer type gas-blast circuit breaker includes at least one interrupting unit mounted in a vessel filled with an arc-extinguishing gas of a unitary pressure. The interrupting unit comprises: a fixed contact; a movable contact movable toward and away from the fixed contact to be engaged with and to be disengaged from the fixed contact respectively, the movable contact having an axial hollow portion, wherein an arc is established between the contacts upon disengagement of the movable contact from the fixed contact; an insulating nozzle encompassing a free end portion of the movable contact and having a throat portion therein, which is substantially closed with the fixed contact; a compression chamber filled with an arc extinguishing gas; a suction chamber, wherein an arc extinguishing gas within the compression chamber is compressed and the volume of the suction chamber is enlarged upon movement of the movable contact away from the fixed contact, whereby a pressure difference between the compression chamber and the suction chamber causes the arc extinguishing gas to be directed from the compression chamber through the axial hollow portion into the suction chamber thereby to be blown against an arc produced between the fixed contact and the movable contact; and the suction chamber is brought into an open condition to or communication with a space in the vessel, simultaneously when the fixed contact is drawn out of the throat portion in the insulating nozzle.

REFERENCES:
patent: 2442010 (1948-05-01), Leeds et al.
patent: 2933575 (1960-04-01), Baker
patent: 3987261 (1976-10-01), McConnell

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