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  • This invention relates to an overload indicating system for use with a transformer, and its purpose is to provide a warning of the occurrence of either of two different types of undesirable loading conditions that the transformer may experience. More specifically, the invention is concerned with a load indicating system for use with a transformer of the oil-immersed type, that is to say the type having a tank containing a liquid dielectric substantially filling the tank, and primary and secondary windings immersed in such dielectric.
  • a practical distribution transformer will commonly have mounted on it or in association with it a circuit breaker which is sensitive to overcurrent, this circuit breaker normally completing a circuit from the secondary winding to a group of low-voltage loads, but being adapted to interrupt such circuit on the occurrence of an overload the value of which will be predetermined in accordance with the setting of the circuit breaker.
  • Such a circuit breaker thus provides immediate protection for the transformer against the second type of overloading, namely sudden fault currents. in the case of the other type of overloading, however, it is desirable that there should be some means for obtaining an indication that an overload condition is being approached, before such condition actually exists.
  • the present invention provides a load indicating system comprising an indicating device (which may be a lamp, buzzer or other warning instrument), auxiliary switching means connected to said indicating device and having two positions, and means sensitive, preferably solely, to the temperature of the dielectric for changing said auxiliary switching means over from its first to its second position on attainment of a predetermined dielectric temperature, said first position being such as to connect said indicating device in series with winding of the transformer (preferably a low-voltage secondary winding) when the main protective device .
  • an indicating device which may be a lamp, buzzer or other warning instrument
  • auxiliary switching means connected to said indicating device and having two positions, and means sensitive, preferably solely, to the temperature of the dielectric for changing said auxiliary switching means over from its first to its second position on attainment of a predetermined dielectric temperature, said first position being such as to connect said indicating device in series with winding of the transformer (preferably a low-voltage secondary winding) when the main protective device .
  • circuit breaker is open, and the second position being such as to establish a circuit from a terminal of a transformer winding (also preferably a secondary winding) through said indicating device to an electrically 'difierent terminal of such winding.
  • a transformer winding also preferably a secondary winding
  • I The ineans sensitive to the temperature of the dielectric 2,989,738 Patented June 20, 1961 ice will be set to switch the auxiliary switching means over into its second position at a temperature that can be achieved without an overcurrent sufficient to trip the circuit breaker being drawn.
  • the auxiliary switching means is so switched over it will complete a circuit from the secondary winding of the transformer to the indicating device thus providing the warning required.
  • the circuit breaker trips on fault current before the dielectric temperature has risen sufficiently to switch over the auxiliary switching means, such means will remain in its first position in which the indicating device is connected across a transformer winding when the circuit breaker opens.
  • the first type of connection involves placing the indicating device in parallel with a pair of main contacts of the circuit breaker, while at the same time arranging that the load circuit that these main contacts completeis always other wise partially completed. Although there will be no voltage across these main contacts when they are closed, so that the indicating device will not be energized under normal operating conditions, when they are open, there will be a circuit established from one terminal of the secondary winding, through the indicating device and through the loads, back to a different terminal of the secondary winding. Thus an indication will also be given under these conditions even though the temperature sensitive means will not have operated.
  • the invention has been shown as applicable to the single-phase three-wire Edison type of distribution system in which the two active leads are taken through the circuit breaker and the neutral lead is permanently connected to the loads.
  • the present invention is equally applicable to a single-phase two-wire system, provided the circuit breaker only interrupts one of the leads and the other remains to provide a return connection for the indicating device.
  • the invention is applicable to a polyphase system, provided, as before, that one connection to the loads remains uninterrupted whatever the position of the circuit breaker. In referring to the provision of an uninterrupted connection between the secondary of the transformer and the loads, it is not intended to exclude the possibility of this connection being established through ground without any actual wired connection.
  • the second method of connecting the auxiliary switching means is to provide a pair of normally closed auxiliary contacts on the circuit breaker, that is to say contacts that are normally closed when the circuit breaker is open and which are thus normally open when the main contacts of the circuit breaker are closed and the system is on load. These auxiliary contacts are then connected plied and showing the method of mounting the parts of the apparatus thereon;
  • FIGURE 3 is a more structurally detailed illustration of a portion of the apparatus employed in the circuit of FIGURE 1;
  • FIGURE 4 is a fragment of an alternative circuit.
  • FIGURES 1 and 2 there is provided a transformer I mounted in a tank 21 and consisting electrically of a primary winding 2 and a centretapped secondary winding 3.
  • the transformer is of a conventional distribution type in which the windings are submerged in a liquid dielectric 22 substantially filling the tank 21.
  • This general layout is shown in FIGURE 2, conventional parts such as lead-in conductors and insulators, etc. having been shown only diagrammatically for clarity of illustration.
  • the transformer 1 is connected on its secondary side into a three-wire single phase Edison type of distribution system, the two active leads A and B being connected through a circuit breaker 4 to a series of loads.
  • the majority of the loads will be of the lower voltage type so that they will be connected between one or other of the active leads A and B and the neutral lead N.
  • loads are represented at 9 and 10.
  • loads such as load 11 requiring the higher voltage may beconnected directly across the active leads.
  • the neutral lead N may be grounded, as shown at 8, and in some systems it may be practical to dispense with the actual neutral connection and rely solely upon a further grounding of the neutral sides of 'the loads 9 and 10.
  • the circuit breaker 4 is double pole and 'may conveniently be'of the totalizing type in which tripping of the circuit breaker is determined in accordance with the sum of the currents flowing in the'two active leads and the degree of unbalance.
  • Canadian Patent No. 551,908 issued January 21, 1958 discloses a basic form of such .a device.
  • FIGURE 1 theintersecting loops aresymbolic of the totalizing function, the main contacts being shown at 6.
  • circuit breaker 4 will preferably be mounted on the inside of the tank 21 immersed' in the dielectric (as shown in FIGURE 2) so as to be operated'as a function of the combination of the dielectric temperature and the currents flowing through the secondary windrugs.
  • the signalling system comprises a double throw-microswitch 12, the movable arm 13 of which is connected through an indicating lamp 14, or other suitable signalling or warning device, to the active lead A at the secondary winding 3 of the transformer. It is desirable that this warning device be of a high resistance type and therefore a neon lamp is preferably used.
  • the movable arm 13 of the-micro-switch 12 makes contact-with a stationary contact '14 which is in electrical connection with the active lead A on the load side of the circuit breaker 4, i.e. at terminal C.
  • the other stationary contact'lS of the micro-switch 12 is connected to the neutral lead N.
  • the micro-switch 12 is controlled by a temperature responsive device comprising a defiectible bi-metallic strip 16 which carries at its end an adjustable screw 18 arranged for mechanical cooperation with the operating-rod 19 of the micro-switch 12 (also see the structural illustration of FIGURE 3 which shows the top of the casing '17 removed).
  • This temperature responsive device is 'mounted together with the micro-switch in a casing 17 which is secured to the inside of the tank 21 at a point beneath .the surface of the liquid dielectric 22.
  • the micro-switch 12 will preferably be of the resetting type, so that the switch will require manual resetting before the lamp can be extinguished, thus ensuring that the warning will not pass unnoticed.
  • a resetting knob 20 (FIGURE 3) is provided for this purpose.
  • FIGURE 4 shows the alternative circuit illustrated in FIGURE 4 in its closedposition with the auxiliary contacts 23 open.
  • the main contacts 6 of the circuit breaker 4' are connected as before in the active leads A and B leading fromthe secondary winding 3 of the transformer to the load-elements.
  • a micro-switch 12 and associated parts, including a bimetallic strip 16, are provided as before.
  • the movable arm 13 of the micro-switch 12 is now connected through a warning lamp 24 to the neutral lead N.
  • the stationary contact 14 with which the movable arm 13 is normally in contact is connected through the auxiliary contacts 23 to the active lead A.
  • the other stationarycontact 15 of the micro-switch 12 is connected directly to such active lead A, these two latter connections to the active lead both being made on the transformer side of the circuit breaker4'.
  • this alternative circuit is basically the same as that described in FIGURE 1 in that if the'microswitch 12 is operated by the bimetallic strip 16,it will connect the movable arm 13 to the stationary contact 15 and thus place thewarning lamp 24 across the active lead A and the neutral lead N of the secondary winding '3. Thus on slow overloads, the warning is given as sole function of oil temperature and completely independently ofthe currents in the winding 3.
  • the difference between the circuits of FIGURES 1 and 4 lies in the method of operation under sudden overloads. In this case the auxiliary contacts 23 are closed long before the bimetallic strip'16 can switch over the micro-switch 12.
  • a circuit is thus established by the auxiliary contacts 23 when they close through the movable arm 13 and stationary contact 14 of'the micro-switch 12 to connect the lamp 24 across the leads A andN.
  • This circuit does not include any of the load elements which except for their connection to the neutral lead N arefully isolated fromthetransformer.
  • a load indicating system comprising an indicating device, auxiliary switching means connected to said indicating device and having two positions, and means sensitive to the temperature of said dielectric for changing said auxiliary switching means over from its first to its second position on attainment of a predetermined dielectric temperature, said first position being such as to connect said indicating device in series with one of said windings when the protective device is open, and said second position being such as to establish a circuit from one terminal of one of said windings through said indicating device to an electrically dilierent terminal of such winding.
  • a transformer comprising a tank, a liquid dielectric in said tank, primary and secondary windings immersed in said dielectric and a circuit breaker adapted to be tripped by an overcurrent condition and having main contacts for completing a circuit from the secondary winding to a load element and a pair of auxiliary contacts open when the main contacts are closed and vice versa;
  • a load indicating system comprising an indicating device, auxiliary switching means connected to said indicating device and having two positions, and means sensitive to the temperature of said dielectric for changing said auxiliary switching means over from its first to its second position on attainment of a predetermined dielectric temperature, said first position being such as to connect said indicating device in series with said auxiliary contacts between one terminal of one of said windings and an electrically different terminal of such winding, and said second position being such as to establish a circuit from one terminal of one of said windings through said indicating device to an electrically different terminal of such latter winding.
  • a load indicating system comprising an indicating device, auxiliary switching means connected to said indicating device and having two positions, and means sensitive to the temperature of said dielectric for changing said auxiliary switching means over from its first to its second position on attainment of a predetermined dielectric temperature, said first position being such as to connect said indicating device in parallel with said pair of contacts of the circuit breaker, and said second position being such as to establish a circuit from one terminal of one of 6 said windings through said indicating device to an electrically different terminal of such winding.
  • a transformer comprising a tank, a liquid dielectric in said tank, and primary and secondary windings immersed in said dielectric, of a load element, an uninterrupted connection from a terminal of said secondary winding to one side of said load element, a circuit breaker sensitive to overcurrent and having a pair of main contacts for completing a circuit from a terminal of said secondary winding to the other side of said load element, an indicating device, auxiliary switching means connected to said indicating device and having two positions, and means sensitive to the temperature of said dielectric for changing said auxiliary switching means over from its first to its second position on attainment of a predetermined dielectric temperature, said first position being such as to connect said indicating device in parallel with said pair of contacts of said circuit breaker, and said second position being such as to establish a circuit from a terminal of said secondary winding through said indicating device to an electrically difierent terminal of said secondary winding.
  • a transformer comprising a tank, a liquid dielectric in said tank, a primary winding immersed in said dielectric, and a secondary single-phase centre-tapped winding immersed in said dielectric, of a load element, an uninterrupted connection from the centre-tap terminal of said secondary winding to one side of said load element, a circuit breaker sensitive to overcurrent and having a pair of main contacts for completing a circuit from an end terminal of said secondary winding to the other side of said load element, an indicating device, auxiliary switching means connected to said indicating device and having two positions, and means sensitive to the temperature of said dielectric for changing said auxiliary switching means over from its first to its second position on attainment of a predetermined dielectric temperature, said first position being such as to connect said indicating device in parallel with said pair of main contacts of said circuit breaker, and said second position being such as to establish a circuit from said end terminal of said secondary winding through said indicating device to said centre-tap terminal of said secondary winding.

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June 20, 1961 TAYLOR TRANSFORMER OVERLOAD INDICATING SYSTEM Filed May 6. 1957 MICRO-SWITCH CURRENT RESPONSIVE J E L E E 'L M 7 2 mpwwbuv United States Patent 2,989,738 TRANSFORMER OVERLOAD INDICATING SYSTEM Herbert John Taylor, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada, as-
signor. to Pioneer Electric Brandon Limited,Brand'on, Manitoba, Canada Filed May 6, 1957, Ser. No. 657,138 Claims priority, application Canada July '11, 1956 7 Claims. (Cl. 340-448) This invention relates to an overload indicating system for use with a transformer, and its purpose is to provide a warning of the occurrence of either of two different types of undesirable loading conditions that the transformer may experience. More specifically, the invention is concerned with a load indicating system for use with a transformer of the oil-immersed type, that is to say the type having a tank containing a liquid dielectric substantially filling the tank, and primary and secondary windings immersed in such dielectric.
There are two principal types of overload to which such a transformer may be subjected. Firstly there is the effect of a gradual increase of secondary current sufiicient over a period of time to raise the temperature of the windings and the dielectric to a deleterious extent; and secondly there is the sudden type of overloading resulting from the flow of a fault current. In this latter case the temperature of the windings rises rapidly but there is insufiicient time for any significant rise in the dielectric temperature before some protective device interrupts the circuit.
A practical distribution transformer will commonly have mounted on it or in association with it a circuit breaker which is sensitive to overcurrent, this circuit breaker normally completing a circuit from the secondary winding to a group of low-voltage loads, but being adapted to interrupt such circuit on the occurrence of an overload the value of which will be predetermined in accordance with the setting of the circuit breaker. Such a circuit breaker thus provides immediate protection for the transformer against the second type of overloading, namely sudden fault currents. in the case of the other type of overloading, however, it is desirable that there should be some means for obtaining an indication that an overload condition is being approached, before such condition actually exists.
It is the primary object of the present invention to provide a load indicating system for use with a transformer of the type described, in which an indication will be given when either of these two conditions occur, i.e. opening of the circuit breaker as a result of currents suflicient to trip it, or the approach of an undesirably high temperature in the transformer when insuflicient current is flowing actually to trip the circuit breaker.
To this end the present invention provides a load indicating system comprising an indicating device (which may be a lamp, buzzer or other warning instrument), auxiliary switching means connected to said indicating device and having two positions, and means sensitive, preferably solely, to the temperature of the dielectric for changing said auxiliary switching means over from its first to its second position on attainment of a predetermined dielectric temperature, said first position being such as to connect said indicating device in series with winding of the transformer (preferably a low-voltage secondary winding) when the main protective device .(e.g. circuit breaker) is open, and the second position being such as to establish a circuit from a terminal of a transformer winding (also preferably a secondary winding) through said indicating device to an electrically 'difierent terminal of such winding. I The ineans sensitive to the temperature of the dielectric 2,989,738 Patented June 20, 1961 ice will be set to switch the auxiliary switching means over into its second position at a temperature that can be achieved without an overcurrent sufficient to trip the circuit breaker being drawn. When the auxiliary switching means is so switched over it will complete a circuit from the secondary winding of the transformer to the indicating device thus providing the warning required. On the other hand, if the circuit breaker trips on fault current before the dielectric temperature has risen sufficiently to switch over the auxiliary switching means, such means will remain in its first position in which the indicating device is connected across a transformer winding when the circuit breaker opens.
In the specific examples that follow two types of connection are disclosed whereby the auxiliary switching means achieves its object in its first position. The first type of connection involves placing the indicating device in parallel with a pair of main contacts of the circuit breaker, while at the same time arranging that the load circuit that these main contacts completeis always other wise partially completed. Although there will be no voltage across these main contacts when they are closed, so that the indicating device will not be energized under normal operating conditions, when they are open, there will be a circuit established from one terminal of the secondary winding, through the indicating device and through the loads, back to a different terminal of the secondary winding. Thus an indication will also be given under these conditions even though the temperature sensitive means will not have operated.
In order to establish this return circuit through the loads it is essential that there be one connection to the loads which is not interrupted by the main circuit breaker. In the specific example which follows, the invention has been shown as applicable to the single-phase three-wire Edison type of distribution system in which the two active leads are taken through the circuit breaker and the neutral lead is permanently connected to the loads. The present invention is equally applicable to a single-phase two-wire system, provided the circuit breaker only interrupts one of the leads and the other remains to provide a return connection for the indicating device. Similarly the invention is applicable to a polyphase system, provided, as before, that one connection to the loads remains uninterrupted whatever the position of the circuit breaker. In referring to the provision of an uninterrupted connection between the secondary of the transformer and the loads, it is not intended to exclude the possibility of this connection being established through ground without any actual wired connection.
The second method of connecting the auxiliary switching means is to provide a pair of normally closed auxiliary contacts on the circuit breaker, that is to say contacts that are normally closed when the circuit breaker is open and which are thus normally open when the main contacts of the circuit breaker are closed and the system is on load. These auxiliary contacts are then connected plied and showing the method of mounting the parts of the apparatus thereon;
FIGURE 3 is a more structurally detailed illustration of a portion of the apparatus employed in the circuit of FIGURE 1; and
FIGURE 4 is a fragment of an alternative circuit.
Referring firstly to FIGURES 1 and 2, there is provided a transformer I mounted in a tank 21 and consisting electrically of a primary winding 2 and a centretapped secondary winding 3. The transformer is of a conventional distribution type in which the windings are submerged in a liquid dielectric 22 substantially filling the tank 21. This general layout is shown in FIGURE 2, conventional parts such as lead-in conductors and insulators, etc. having been shown only diagrammatically for clarity of illustration.
As will appear from FIGURE 1, the transformer 1 is connected on its secondary side into a three-wire single phase Edison type of distribution system, the two active leads A and B being connected through a circuit breaker 4 to a series of loads. In this type of distribution system the majority of the loads will be of the lower voltage type so that they will be connected between one or other of the active leads A and B and the neutral lead N. Such loads are represented at 9 and 10. In addition, loads such as load 11 requiring the higher voltage may beconnected directly across the active leads. The neutral lead N may be grounded, as shown at 8, and in some systems it may be practical to dispense with the actual neutral connection and rely solely upon a further grounding of the neutral sides of 'the loads 9 and 10.
The circuit breaker 4 is double pole and 'may conveniently be'of the totalizing type in which tripping of the circuit breaker is determined in accordance with the sum of the currents flowing in the'two active leads and the degree of unbalance. Canadian Patent No. 551,908 issued January 21, 1958 discloses a basic form of such .a device. In FIGURE 1 theintersecting loops aresymbolic of the totalizing function, the main contacts being shown at 6. No further detailed description of the circuit breaker 4 is deemed necessary in this specification, but it should be mentioned that the circuit breaker 4 will preferably be mounted on the inside of the tank 21 immersed' in the dielectric (as shown in FIGURE 2) so as to be operated'as a function of the combination of the dielectric temperature and the currents flowing through the secondary windrugs.
The signalling system comprises a double throw-microswitch 12, the movable arm 13 of which is connected through an indicating lamp 14, or other suitable signalling or warning device, to the active lead A at the secondary winding 3 of the transformer. It is desirable that this warning device be of a high resistance type and therefore a neon lamp is preferably used. Normally the movable arm 13 of the-micro-switch 12 makes contact-with a stationary contact '14 which is in electrical connection with the active lead A on the load side of the circuit breaker 4, i.e. at terminal C. The other stationary contact'lS of the micro-switch 12 is connected to the neutral lead N.
The micro-switch 12 is controlled by a temperature responsive device comprising a defiectible bi-metallic strip 16 which carries at its end an adjustable screw 18 arranged for mechanical cooperation with the operating-rod 19 of the micro-switch 12 (also see the structural illustration of FIGURE 3 which shows the top of the casing '17 removed). This temperature responsive device is 'mounted together with the micro-switch in a casing 17 which is secured to the inside of the tank 21 at a point beneath .the surface of the liquid dielectric 22.
With the system operating normally, that is to say with the circuit breaker contacts 6 closed, there will be no significant potential across the lamp 14. As the load on -the transformer gradually increases and the dielectric heats, the bimetallic strip 16 will flex downwardly at 1ts 'free end, until ultimately the screw 18 forces the operating rod 19 sufficiently far into the casing of the micro-switch -12 to snap such micro-switch over into its opposite posi- 4 brightly and thus provide an indication that a certain predetermined condition of load has been exceeded. This condition will normally be chosen to be rather less than the sustained overload condition that will be sufficient to trip the circuit breaker 4 so that the warning lamp will provide an indication of the approach of a dangerous overload rather than the presence of such an overload. The micro-switch 12 will preferably be of the resetting type, so that the switch will require manual resetting before the lamp can be extinguished, thus ensuring that the warning will not pass unnoticed. A resetting knob 20 (FIGURE 3) is provided for this purpose.
The foregoing description of the operation assumes that the load on the transformer will increase gradually. In the event of a sudden heavy overload the circuit breaker 4 which is sensitive to the currents through the windings will trip long before the dielectric temperature will have risen sufiiciently to deflect the bimetallic strip 16 to switch over the micro-switch 12, and thus the movable arm 13 will remain in its original position in contact with the stationary contact 14 even though an overload condition had existed and the circuit breaker 4 had opened. However, an indication of the overload condition will still be Lprovided, because a circuit will now exist extending from'the lead A at the secondary winding 3, through the lamp 14 and the micro-switch 12 to terminal C, and thence through the load 9 (and also loads 10 and 11 in series, if there is a load '11) back to the neutral lead N of the winding 3. The fact that the neon lamp 14 will only pass a'small current avoids the possibility of danger to a linesman working on the otherwise disconnected load circuit.
If it is essential to avoid any connection between the load circuit and the tranformer when the circuit breaker is open, the alternative circuit illustrated in FIGURE 4 may be adopted. This circuit employs a modified circuit breaker '4 similar to the circuit breaker 4 but also having a'pair of normally closed auxiliary contacts 23. These contacts are referred to as normally closed because this is their condition in the open position of the circuit breaker. FIGURE 4 shows the circuit breaker in its closedposition with the auxiliary contacts 23 open. The main contacts 6 of the circuit breaker 4' are connected as before in the active leads A and B leading fromthe secondary winding 3 of the transformer to the load-elements.
A micro-switch 12 and associated parts, including a bimetallic strip 16, are provided as before. The movable arm 13 of the micro-switch 12 is now connected through a warning lamp 24 to the neutral lead N. The stationary contact 14 with which the movable arm 13 is normally in contact is connected through the auxiliary contacts 23 to the active lead A. The other stationarycontact 15 of the micro-switch 12 is connected directly to such active lead A, these two latter connections to the active lead both being made on the transformer side of the circuit breaker4'.
The operation of this alternative circuit is basically the same as that described in FIGURE 1 in that if the'microswitch 12 is operated by the bimetallic strip 16,it will connect the movable arm 13 to the stationary contact 15 and thus place thewarning lamp 24 across the active lead A and the neutral lead N of the secondary winding '3. Thus on slow overloads, the warning is given as sole function of oil temperature and completely independently ofthe currents in the winding 3. The difference between the circuits of FIGURES 1 and 4 lies in the method of operation under sudden overloads. In this case the auxiliary contacts 23 are closed long before the bimetallic strip'16 can switch over the micro-switch 12. A circuit is thus established by the auxiliary contacts 23 when they close through the movable arm 13 and stationary contact 14 of'the micro-switch 12 to connect the lamp 24 across the leads A andN. This circuit does not include any of the load elements which except for their connection to the neutral lead N arefully isolated fromthetransformer.
*Of'course,=the circuit breaker could have al'third pair of main contacts to interrupt the neutral lead if complete isolation is required without any eflect on the operation of the warning lamp.
I claim:
1. In combination with a transformer comprising a tank, liquid dielectric in said tank, primary and secondary windings immersed in said dielectric and a protective device to open circuits, which includes said secondary winding, due to an overcurrent condition; a load indicating system comprising an indicating device, auxiliary switching means connected to said indicating device and having two positions, and means sensitive to the temperature of said dielectric for changing said auxiliary switching means over from its first to its second position on attainment of a predetermined dielectric temperature, said first position being such as to connect said indicating device in series with one of said windings when the protective device is open, and said second position being such as to establish a circuit from one terminal of one of said windings through said indicating device to an electrically dilierent terminal of such winding.
2. In combination with a transformer comprising a tank, a liquid dielectric in said tank, primary and secondary windings immersed in said dielectric and a circuit breaker adapted to be tripped by an overcurrent condition and having main contacts for completing a circuit from the secondary winding to a load element and a pair of auxiliary contacts open when the main contacts are closed and vice versa; a load indicating system comprising an indicating device, auxiliary switching means connected to said indicating device and having two positions, and means sensitive to the temperature of said dielectric for changing said auxiliary switching means over from its first to its second position on attainment of a predetermined dielectric temperature, said first position being such as to connect said indicating device in series with said auxiliary contacts between one terminal of one of said windings and an electrically different terminal of such winding, and said second position being such as to establish a circuit from one terminal of one of said windings through said indicating device to an electrically different terminal of such latter winding.
3. In combination with a transformer comprising a tank, liquid dielectric in said tank, primary and secondary windings immersed in said dielectric and a circuit breaker adapted to be tripped by an overcurrent condition and having a pair of main contacts for completing a circuit from the secondary winding to a load element; a load indicating system comprising an indicating device, auxiliary switching means connected to said indicating device and having two positions, and means sensitive to the temperature of said dielectric for changing said auxiliary switching means over from its first to its second position on attainment of a predetermined dielectric temperature, said first position being such as to connect said indicating device in parallel with said pair of contacts of the circuit breaker, and said second position being such as to establish a circuit from one terminal of one of 6 said windings through said indicating device to an electrically different terminal of such winding.
'4. The combination claimed in claim 1, wherein said means sensitive to the temperature of said dielectric is sensitive solely thereto.
5. The combination claimed in claim 1, wherein said auxiliary switching means is such as to remain in said second position until reset by an externally applied force.
6. The combination with a transformer comprising a tank, a liquid dielectric in said tank, and primary and secondary windings immersed in said dielectric, of a load element, an uninterrupted connection from a terminal of said secondary winding to one side of said load element, a circuit breaker sensitive to overcurrent and having a pair of main contacts for completing a circuit from a terminal of said secondary winding to the other side of said load element, an indicating device, auxiliary switching means connected to said indicating device and having two positions, and means sensitive to the temperature of said dielectric for changing said auxiliary switching means over from its first to its second position on attainment of a predetermined dielectric temperature, said first position being such as to connect said indicating device in parallel with said pair of contacts of said circuit breaker, and said second position being such as to establish a circuit from a terminal of said secondary winding through said indicating device to an electrically difierent terminal of said secondary winding.
7. The combination with a transformer comprising a tank, a liquid dielectric in said tank, a primary winding immersed in said dielectric, and a secondary single-phase centre-tapped winding immersed in said dielectric, of a load element, an uninterrupted connection from the centre-tap terminal of said secondary winding to one side of said load element, a circuit breaker sensitive to overcurrent and having a pair of main contacts for completing a circuit from an end terminal of said secondary winding to the other side of said load element, an indicating device, auxiliary switching means connected to said indicating device and having two positions, and means sensitive to the temperature of said dielectric for changing said auxiliary switching means over from its first to its second position on attainment of a predetermined dielectric temperature, said first position being such as to connect said indicating device in parallel with said pair of main contacts of said circuit breaker, and said second position being such as to establish a circuit from said end terminal of said secondary winding through said indicating device to said centre-tap terminal of said secondary winding.
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