GB887860A - Improved electric circuit-breakers - Google Patents

Improved electric circuit-breakers

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Publication number
GB887860A
GB887860A GB38910/59A GB3891059A GB887860A GB 887860 A GB887860 A GB 887860A GB 38910/59 A GB38910/59 A GB 38910/59A GB 3891059 A GB3891059 A GB 3891059A GB 887860 A GB887860 A GB 887860A
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Prior art keywords
slits
conductors
contacts
contact
rivet
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GB38910/59A
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Merlin Gerin SA
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Merlin Gerin SA
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01H—ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES
    • H01H1/00—Contacts
    • H01H1/50—Means for increasing contact pressure, preventing vibration of contacts, holding contacts together after engagement, or biasing contacts to the open position
    • H01H1/54—Means for increasing contact pressure, preventing vibration of contacts, holding contacts together after engagement, or biasing contacts to the open position by magnetic force

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  • Arc-Extinguishing Devices That Are Switches (AREA)
  • Breakers (AREA)

Abstract

887,860. Air-break switches; switches, partly electromagnetic. ETABLISSEMENTS MERLIN & GERIN. Nov. 17, 1959 [Dec. 23, 1958], No. 38910/59. Class 38 (5). The moving contact p of a circuit-breaker is pressed against the fixed contact P by the electrodynamic repulsion between conductors L 1 , L 2 and a conductor l, and by the attraction between the conductors L, l. Further conductors may be provided to increase these effects by adding one or more turns to the conductors L 1 , L 2 before joining them to conductor L, Figs. 3 and 4 (not shown), the coil so formed serving also as a magnetic blow-out. The arrangement of Figs. 1 and 2 is provided in Figs. 5 and 6 by fixed shells 1 each having a jaw 2 secured to a central piece 6 by rivets 7 . . . 10, the last three having insulating sleeves and washers which, with slits 3, 4, 5, cause current to flow through each jaw 2 from the point P to the rivet 7 in the path shown. The current path through the member 6 to clamping members 11 is produced by slits 15, 16 in the member 6 and by insulating the rivets 12, 13 which, with rivet 14, secure the members 6, 11. The moving contact 17 is insulated at 19 from a pivoted lever 18 so that current flows from the contact points p to the rivet 20 as shown. Anti-clockwise rotation of interrupting levers 23 moves the lever 18 to close contacts 1, 17, compresses a spring 22 to secure contact pressure and engages the levers 23 with main contacts 24. During opening the arcs at points P, p are driven inwardly and the arc gases are expelled through a space 25 between the shells 1. In a modification, Figs. 7 and 8, fixed contacts 30 are secured to a shaft 31 carried by members 32 and are movable between stops 36, 37 against a spring 33 acting on their lower ends through a rod 34 and a fork 35. The desired current paths are produced by slits 27, 28, 29 in the movable contact 26, by the combined U and Z shape of the contacts 30, and by a slit 38 in each member 32, the slits 27 . . . 29 being filled with insulating material if necessary. The arrangement shown in Figs. 7 and 8 may replace the main contacts 23, 24 shown in Figs. 5 and 6.
GB38910/59A 1958-12-23 1959-11-17 Improved electric circuit-breakers Expired GB887860A (en)

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FR4068A FR1225685A (en) 1958-12-23 1958-12-23 Improvements to electrodynamically compensated pressure contacts

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GB887860A true GB887860A (en) 1962-01-24

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US (1) US3092699A (en)
BE (1) BE584795A (en)
CH (1) CH357788A (en)
DE (1) DE1143567B (en)
FR (1) FR1225685A (en)
GB (1) GB887860A (en)

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US3593227A (en) * 1968-02-28 1971-07-13 Gennady Fedosievich Mitskevich Automatic electrodynamic blowoff breaker with stationary contact form of two series wound u-shaped members
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US4511774A (en) * 1983-12-08 1985-04-16 Eaton Corporation Current limiting contact arrangement
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US4804933A (en) * 1988-04-01 1989-02-14 Brown Industrial Gas, Inc. Automatic transfer switch
US4849590A (en) * 1988-04-01 1989-07-18 Kohler Company Electric switch with counteracting electro-electro-dynamic forces
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US2732468A (en) * 1956-01-24 Electric switch
DE398478C (en) * 1922-11-07 1924-07-09 Bbc Brown Boveri & Cie Switch for large instantaneous currents
DE560368C (en) * 1928-09-21 1932-10-01 Const Electr De Delle Sa Atel Loop-shaped switch with two pairs of main contacts and additional spark-drawing contacts
BE534048A (en) * 1953-12-11
BE534764A (en) * 1954-02-04 Merlin Gerin

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US3092699A (en) 1963-06-04
DE1143567B (en) 1963-02-14
CH357788A (en) 1961-10-31
FR1225685A (en) 1960-07-04
BE584795A (en) 1960-03-16

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