Electrically fused spring package

• US 3,163,732 A
• Filed: 11/20/1961
• Issued: 12/29/1964
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/1961
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Automation Industries, Inc.
• Original Assignee: John J. Phillips, John R. Abbott
• Inventors: Abbott, John R., Phillips, John J.
• Application Number:
  US04/153,291
• Time in Patent Office: 1,135 Days
• US Class Current: 337/128
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 71/20 with fusible mass
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 85/36 Means for applying mechanical tension to fusible member
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/11 Tripping mechanism

Claims

1. AN ELECTROMECHANICAL ACTUATOR PACKAGE, COMPRISING A PAIR OF ENDWISE RELATIVELY MOVABLY BODIES EXTENDING IN ENDWISE COLLAPSED RELATION AND DEFINING AN ENDWISE EXTENDING AXIS, SPRING MEANS EXERTING LOADING TENDING TO RELATIVELY OPPOSITELY BODILY MOVE SAID BODIES, AND MEANS FOR CONTROLLING SAID BODY RELATIVE MOVEMENT BY SAID SPRING MEANS AND INCLUDING A SERIES OF ENDWISE EXTENDING CANTILEVER FINGERS ON ONE BODY AND SPACED ABOUT SAID AXIS, THE FINGERS AND THE OTHER BODY AND SPACED ABOUT SAID IN LATCHING INTERENGAGEMENT HOLDING THE BODIES AGAINST RELATIVELY OPPOSITE BODILY MOVEMENT, THE SHOULDERS HAVING CAM ANGULARITY WITH RESPECT TO SAID AXIS AND TENDING TO FLEX THE FINGERS WITH THE RESPECT TO SAID AXIS AND THEREBY RELAEASE SAID LATCHING INTERENGAGEMENT, AND MEANS EXTENDING ABOUT SAID AXIS AND CONTROLLABLY BLOCKING AND UNBLOCKING SAID FLEXING OF THE FINGERS AND INCLUDING AN ELECTRICALLY ENERGIZABLE ELEMENT OPERABLE TO EFFECT UNBLOCKING OF FINGER FLEXING.