US2150089A - Circuit breaker - Google Patents

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US2150089A
US2150089A US197449A US19744938A US2150089A US 2150089 A US2150089 A US 2150089A US 197449 A US197449 A US 197449A US 19744938 A US19744938 A US 19744938A US 2150089 A US2150089 A US 2150089A
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Whitehead George Ethelbert
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01H—ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES
    • H01H33/00—High-tension or heavy-current switches with arc-extinguishing or arc-preventing means
    • H01H33/02—Details
    • H01H33/04—Means for extinguishing or preventing arc between current-carrying parts
    • H01H33/12—Auxiliary contacts on to which the arc is transferred from the main contacts

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  • This invention relates to electrical switches or circuit breakers. and more particularly the contacts thereof.
  • the invention comprises modiiicationsv of the contact arrangements described in the specifications of Patent Nos. 1,992,109 granted Feb. 19, 1935, and 2,032,241 granted Feb. 25, 1936.
  • the main current carrying fixed contact is of the resilient sleeve type and is carried at the mouth of a metal housing whilst the main current carrying moving contact is in the form of a plug, the arrangement so far set forth being as shown in Fig. 3 of the specification of Patent No. 2,032,241 except that the resilient sleeve contact may be of any other type than that forming the subject of Patent No.
  • the aforesaid arcing plunger may have a relatively free sliding engagement with respect to the main current carrying plug, since it only has to carry the arc current.
  • the moving plunger may i have an extension projecting from the main current carrying member which projection may be connected if desired by a exibie conductor to the main current carrying member or to the bridge of the circuit breaker if of the double-break type.
  • the spring of said plunger may be housed Within the main current carrying plug or contact member.
  • the spring which urges the arcing plunger may be external to the main plug contact and may be duplicated and provided with guide rods, whilst said main plug carries a resilient sleeve contact, preferably in accordance with Patent No. 2,032,241 aforesaid, in which the arcing plunger is slidable.
  • Figs. 3 and 4 are views similar to Figs. 1 and 2 of another form of the contacts in ⁇ accordance with the invention.
  • Fig. 5 is a fragmentary horizontal section, on l0 an enlarged scale, taken on the line 5 5 in Fig. 1.
  • the contact 5 comprises an annulus of closely packed thin flexible laminae 5a, compo-sed preferably of similarly bent strips of copper having 25 their inner ends disposed in close relation and forming a resilient wall for engagement with the main current carrying moving contact a portion of the periphery of which is indicated by the dotted line 5a, to provide a good electrical contact 30 therewith.
  • the outer ends of these laminae abut against the surrounding wall 3a of a recess formed in the lower end of the housing 3.
  • the laminae 5a may be separated by interposed similarly bent but relatively shorter laminae 5b of 35 phosphor bronze or steel.
  • the resilient socket contact 5 co-operates the main current carrying moving contact which is in the form of a plug 6 which has a downward extension 'i of larger diameter clamped to the 40 moving crossbar 8 of the circuit breaker.
  • the moving member 8, 1 is tubular and carries within its bore the arcing plunger 9 which is urged upwards relatively to the main contact 6 by means oi the helical spring l0 which surrounds a stem li secured to or forming part of the plunger 9 and extending through the crossbar 8 and having at its lower end a stop l2 which limits the upward movement of the plunger 9 relatively to the plug 6.
  • the plunger 9 is readily removable so that it can be changed in case the arcing end becomes burnt.
  • the plunger 9 may be arranged to fit freely in the bore oi the main plug 6 and the lower end 55 of the extension II may be connected to the bridge 8 by means of a ilexible conductor.
  • the fixed arcing contact I3 Secured Within the tubular upper portion 3 of' the metal housing is the fixed arcing contact I3 which conveniently has an enlarged screw-- threaded portion I4 so that the fixed arcing plug I3 is readily interchangeable in case it may ben come burnt.
  • the housing 3, 4 is shown disposed within the shrouding tube I5 of insulating material which may be fixed in a perforation in a barrier IG which may extend across the oil tank of the circuit breaker.
  • the housing 3 is provided with a plurality, for example three, of holes II for equalizing the pressure within the housing 3 during the opening and closing of the circuit breaker.
  • the housing 3 acts after the manner of an explosion pot tending to quench the are which forms between the fixed butt contact I3 and the plunger 9 after the main current carrying plug has been entirely Withdrawn from the resilient sleeve contact 5.
  • Figs. 3 and 4 the arrangement therein illustrated only differs from that shown in Fig. 1 in that in the first place the plunger 9 slides in a further resilient sleeve contact I8 carried at the lower end of the main cur rent carrying plug 6.
  • the sleeve contact I8 is preferably similar to the sleeve contact 5.
  • the spring Ill shown in Fig. 1 within the lower portion I of the main Contact plug 6, is replaced by external springs I 9 surrounding headed guide rods 2D attached to a plate 2
  • the arrangement shown in Figs. 3 and 4 is adapted for a heavy current circuit breaker. In one example thereof which has been found particularly successful the diameter of the main plug was about 1.7 inches (4.47 cms.) and the rating of the circuit breaker was 900 amperes.
  • the invention may be applied if desired to circuit breaker arrangements wherein the oil is pumped upwards through the housing 3, 4 during circuit breaker opening.
  • a ixed metal housing having a main current carrying xed contact of the resilient sleeve type carried at the mouth thereof, said housing having at least one hole therein above said main xed contact, a rigid butt type arcing contact Within said housing and having its contact surface above said main fixed contact, a main moving contact in the form of a plug adapted to cooperate with said resilient sleeve type contact, said plug contact being tubular, and a spring urged arcing contact in the form oi a plunger carried within the bore of said plug contact and adapted to make and break engagement with said fixed arcing contact Within said housing.

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Cited By (2)

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US2458800A (en) * 1943-09-04 1949-01-11 Line Material Co Automatic switch construction
US4414449A (en) * 1981-05-26 1983-11-08 Brown Boveri Electric Inc. Quick open and close disconnect switch

Cited By (2)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US2458800A (en) * 1943-09-04 1949-01-11 Line Material Co Automatic switch construction
US4414449A (en) * 1981-05-26 1983-11-08 Brown Boveri Electric Inc. Quick open and close disconnect switch

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