General Electric Company

Richard A Wandler

Lynn Edwin Fisher

James P Frank

Kenneth R Renkes

David C Lennon

A terminal board assembly for a dynamoelectric machine, adapted for supporting an overload device, comprises a body and an overload device support integral with the body and extending therefrom for cradling the overload device when the overload device is supported on the terminal board assembly. The body and the overload device support each include apparatus releasably secured in engagement with the overload device for retaining the overload device against displacement from the overload device support.

Dynamoelectric machine, methods of assembling such, terminal board

A terminal board assembly for a dynamoelectric machine includes a body, a switch device associated with the body and having a movable actuating lever. An enclosures overlays the switch device and includes a pair of at least partially overlapping cover segments associated with the body for extending in part in enclosing relation about the switch device. Aligned passages extend through the pair of cover segments for the extension therethrough of a part of the actuating lever exteriorly of the pair of cover segments. A movable seat strip spans the passages and is associated in sealing relation with the pair of cover segments and the actuating lever part for accommodating the movement of the actuating lever while maintaining the sealing relationship.

A dynamoelectric machine has a housing, a terminal board and a stationary assembly including a winding with a set of leads. The terminal board has a pair of opposite faces with a peripheral portion therebetween and a set of separate recesses in the peripheral portion. The recesses define with the housing a set of separate passages for receiving at least the winding leads.

Dynamoelectric machine with a terminal board mounted thereto

A method of assembling an overload protector for use in a combination starter-protector device adapted to be associated in circuit relation with a dynamoelectic machine. To practice this method, a conductive member is extended through a slot in a sidewall of a casing, and a contact section of the conductive member is located within an open ended recess in the casing defined by the sidewall and a base wall while a terminal section of the conductive member is located on an extension wall extending laterally of the sidewall. The terminal section is secured against displacement to the extension wall. A support for a bimetal switch element is disposed in an assembly position within the open ended recess, and the bimetal switch element is biased into engagement in circuit relation with the contact section. An overload protector, a combination starter-protector device and a method of assembling a starter-protector device are also disclosed.

Combination starter-protector device and method of assembling same,

A terminal board for a dynamoelectric machine has a body with a pair of opposite faces. At least one terminal secured to the body includes an electrical connector section extending beyond one of the opposite faces and a deformed end section generally opposite the electrical connector section arranged in spaced apart relation with the other of the opposite face. A switch element is conductively secured to the deformed end section of the at least one terminal and extends in overlaying spaced relation with the other opposite face for switching between a set of switching modes.

Terminal board assembly

A method of assembling a switch device with a means for supporting it. The supporting means includes at least one face having a set of bosses thereon, and each boss has a free end and a ledge intermediate the free end and the at least one face. The switch device has an actuating lever with a pair of generally opposite trunnions thereon, and a set of terminals of the switch device each have a deformed end section. In practicing this method, the opposite trunnions of the actuating lever are seated on the ledges of at least some of the bosses. The terminals are associated in preselected positions therefor on a supporting means, and the deformed end sections of the terminals are disposed in overlaying spaced apart relation with at least the ledges on the at least some bosses thereby to capture the opposite trunnions between the at least some bosses and the terminals, respectively.

Method of assembling a switch device with a supporting means thereof

In a method of assembling a dynamoelectric machine, a set of pads on a terminal board are inserted into assembly positions in engagement with a set of slots in one end of a housing for the dynamoelectric machine, and the pads are in part overlaid with the housing about the slots therein. The terminal board is positioned in a preselected position therefor within the housing, and a peripheral portion of the terminal board is disposed at least generally adjacent the housing therewithin when the pads are in their assembly positions. An end frame is mounted in an assembly on the housing in engagement with the one end thereof so as to retain the pads against displacement from the assembly positions thereof past the one end of the housing. A dynamoelectric machine, methods of assembling a switch device with a means for supporting it, and a terminal board assembly are also disclosed.

Method of assembling a dynamoelectric machine

A method of operating a timer device having means for indicating the remaining operating time during an operating time period selected for the timer device. The timer device includes a gear train having a pair of branches coupled with the indicating means to drive it in different preselected speed modes through the selected operating time period. In this method, the indicating means is driven in one of the preselected speed modes through one of the gear train branches during an operating time period in excess of a predetermined operating time period of the timer device with the sum of the excess and predetermined operating time periods comprising the selected operating time period, and the drive of the indicating means through the other of the gear train branches is obviated during the excess operating time period. At least one of the gears in the one gear train branch is moved to a position disengaged from mesh with at least another of the gears of the one gear train branch interrupting the drive therethrough of the indicating means to terminate the excess operating time period, and thereafter the indicating means is driven through the other gear train branch during the predetermined operating time period of the timer device. Timer devices and other operating methods are also disclosed.

Timer device and method of operating

A female terminal for receiving in electrical contacting engagement a spade portion having a generally rectangular cross-section of a male terminal. A strip of electrical material has a first portion, and a generally cylindric section is provided on the strip integral with the first portion and defining at least in part a bore for the electrical contacting engagement with the spade portion of the male terminal. The first portion and cylindric section respectively including means disposed generally in dovetailing relation with each other and defining at least a part of the bore for effecting constant electrical contact between the bore and the spade portion of the male terminal irrespective of any diametral position in which the spade portion may be received across the bore. A method of making a female terminal is also disclosed.

Female terminal and method of making such

A terminal block assembly for an electrically energized device. The terminal block assembly has a housing, and a plurality of predeterminately spaced male terminals are mounted to the housing with spade portions extending from the housing. Means adapted for removable mounting with the male terminals has a casing containing a plurality of female terminals. The female terminals respectively include: a strip of electrical conductive material; opposite end portions on the strip respectively comprising a generally cylindric section and means for electrical connection with an electrical lead; and a bore in the cylindric section having a generally continuous circumferential portion for electrical contacting engagement with a respective one of the spade portions. A plurality of openings are predeterminately spaced in the casing for receiving the spade portions and include means engaged generally about the cylindrical sections of the female terminals for predeterminately positioning the bores thereof with respect to the openings. A plurality of means in said casing intersecting with the positioning means are provided for confining engagement with the other ends of the strips to generally prevent rotational displacement of the cylindric sections with respect to the openings. The spade portions are received in constant electrical contacting engagement across the circumferential portions irrespective of any diametral positions the spade portions extend through the openings into the bores when the removable mounting means is mounted with the male terminals. A multiple connector assembly is also disclosed.

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Clinton, IA, United States of America

Richard A Wandler