Contact arm with internal in-line spring

Details Contact arm with internal in-line spring Contact arm with internal in-line spring

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H01H 71/00 (2006.01) H01H 77/10 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 2225064

A circuit breaker contact arm (56) contains a straight elongate through-slot (112) that runs generally lengthwise of the contact arm and is closed at both lengthwise ends. Adjacent each slot, a respective side wall (106, 108) of a cross bar (58) contains a bent slot (114) having a knee (116). A respective cylindrical blow-open pin (118) passes through all three of these slots. A small helical coiled spring (120) occupies the contact arm through-slot and is compressed between the blow-open pin and the end of the contact arm slot that is proximate a cross bar/contact arm hinge pin (110). The spring is laterally confined by the adjacent side walls of the cross bar so as to remain in the contact arm slot about which the contact arm swings. The spring acts between the blow-open pin and the contact arm to bias the blow-open pin in a direction away from the cross bar/contact arm hinge axis. When the blow-open pin is below the knees of the bent slots and the contact arm is closed, completing an interruptable circuit through the circuit breaker, the spring exerts force beneficial to good contact of the contact arm contact (54) with a fixed contact (52). By disposing the spring in the contact arm slot, space is used more efficiently.

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