Circuit interrupter with pressure-generating and interrupting contacts in insulating interrupting tube

• US 3,110,791 A
• Filed: 08/27/1959
• Issued: 11/12/1963
• Est. Priority Date: 08/27/1959
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Com The Mellon National Bank A, Wayne S. Aspey
• Original Assignee: Com The Mellon National Bank A, Wayne S. Aspey
• Inventors: Aspey, Wayne S., CO THE MELLON NATIONAL BANK AN
• Application Number:
  US03/836,405
• Time in Patent Office: 1,538 Days
• US Class Current: 218/2
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 3/46 using rod or lever linkage, e.g. toggle
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 33/008 Pedestal mounted switch gear combinations
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 33/12 Auxiliary contacts on to which the arc is transferred from the main contacts using arcing horns H01H33/20
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 33/982 in which the pressure-generating arc is rotated by a magnetic field

Claims

1. THE COMBINATION IN A CIRCUIT INTERRUPTER OF A METALLIC TANK, A PAIR OF TERMINAL BUSHINGS EXTENDING INTO SAID METALLIC TANK AND CARRYING RELATIVELY STATIONARY CONTACT STRUCTURES AT THEIR INTERIOR ENDS, A RELATIVELY STATIONARY INSULATING INTERRUPTING TUBE, SAID RELATIVELY STATIONARY CONTACT STRUCTURES BEING DISPOSED EXTERNALLY OF THE INTERRUPTING TUBE, A PAIR OF MOVABLE INTERRUPTING CONTACT COOPERABLE WITH THE RELATIVELY STATIONARY CONTACT STRUCTURES AND MOVABLE TRANSVERSELY THROUGH SAID INSULATING INTERRUPTING TUBE, A PAIR OF RELATIVELY STATIONARY PRESSURE-GENERATING CONTACTS MOUNTED TO THE WALL OF THE INTERRUPTING TUBE, A PAIR OF COOPERABLE MOVABLE PRESSURE-GENERATING CONTACTS