Electricity: circuit makers and breakers – Combined with or actuated by connector coupling – Multiple circuit control – selective
Patent
1995-02-17
1996-02-20
Tolin, Gerald P.
Electricity: circuit makers and breakers
Combined with or actuated by connector coupling
Multiple circuit control, selective
361624, 439814, H02B 104
Patent
active
054930855
ABSTRACT:
A terminal connection for a flat stab of an electrical switch includes a spring clip which retains a nut in alignment with an aperture in the flat stab. The spring clip is fabricated from a strip of resilient electrically conductive material and has a top wall with a central aperture, side walls extending downward from the top wall and having slots therein, an end wall extending downward from the top wall and a bottom wall cantilevered forward from the bottom of the end wall under the top wall and between the side walls. A square nut is retained in the spring clip with its tapped hole aligned with the aperture in the top wall and with either an aperture or a depression in the bottom wall. The fastener assembly clips onto the end of the flat stab with the stab between the nut and the top wall of the spring clip. A screw passed through the apertures in the top wall and the flat stab engages the nut to secure a conductor to the stab. The slots in the side walls of the clip prevent rotation of the nut and provide positive stops which resist loss of the nut through application of excessive axial force to the screw.
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Cutler-Hammer, Westinghouse & Cutler-Hammer products; Publication No. 29-120F; Series C F-Frame Termination Accessories; Jun. 1994; pp. 7-10.
Kolberg Kenneth D.
Little David E.
Parks David A.
Eaton Corporation
Moran Martin J.
Tolin Gerald P.
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