Merlin Gerin

Jacques Vernay

Hugues Filiputti

Patrick Bonnardel

Thierry Humbert

Robert Micoud

Marcel Rigaud

An operating mechanism of a three-position switch having a contact-bearing main shaft comprises a switch closing and opening operation device, and an earthing device closing and opening operating device. The two devices comprise driving flange plates connected by a common spring capable of being loaded by rotation of either of the operating shafts and transmitting, after the deadpoint has been reached, a drive movement of these flange plates transmitted by articulated levers to a crank handle wedged onto the main shaft. All the operations are high-speed and the torque transmitted to the main shaft increases in the course of the operating movement. A locking device maintains the main shaft in the open position during the loading phase of the spring.

Operating mechanism of a three-position switch

An operating mechanism of a three-position switch comprises a tumbler device with an energy storage spring associated with a toggle, a main operating crank controlled by a switching shaft, and an earthing crank mounted in rotation on a first operating spindle. Opening and closing are performed by means of a second operating spindle, offset from the operating shaft and operating in conjunction with a transmission system designed to drive the toggle. A latching lever of the main crank is unlocked by a boss when the toggle is in the vicinity of the dead-point.

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Grenoble, France

Jacques Vernay