General Electric Company

Jeremy A Palmer

Kevin Farrelly Nolan

Hamon L Craft

Robert Bruce Wallace

Thomas Francis Vrnak

Melanie Ann Lewis

Kevin D Mazzella

Valerie R Padilla

Robert R Leclair

Grady W Broadnax, Jr

Rick A Vonrotz

Tomas B Mendez

A panelboard/switchboard assembly for accommodating bolt-on modules, plug-in modules and lugs. The panelboard/switchboard includes vertical, edge forward bus bars having a plurality of openings formed therein. The edge forward alignment allows plug-in modules to be mounted to the bus bars. The openings in the bus bars receive bolts for mounting straps to the bus bars and for mounting lugs to the bus bars. The openings have a shape having at least one linear element and receive a bolt having an anti-rotation portion with a similar shape. The interference between the opening and the anti-rotation portion of the bolt prevents the straps, and the modules connected to the straps, from rotating.

Electric power distribution panelboard/switchboard assembly

A Motor control center containing so-called 'pilot' devices along with motor contactors and circuit interrupters mounts the pilot devices on a bracket that is received within the control center access door. The bracket is arranged to interact with the control center access door to automatically rotate the bracket in one direction when the access door is opened and to rotate the bracket in the opposite direction when the access door is closed.

Motor control center pilot devices bracket

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Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America

Jeremy A Palmer