Bbc Brown, Boveri & Company, Limited

Roland Stelzer

Klaus Ragaller

Ekkehard Schade

Adelbert Rappange

Robert Richard

Walter Egli

A gas-blast breaker with two contact members which are movable relative to one another. Each contact member is provided with a respective sparking contact. The contacts communicate with a cylindrical compression chamber whose volume varies as a function of the movement of the contact members and which is filled pressurized gas. A channel leading into a quenching zone between the sparking contacts extends into a first one of the two end faces of the compression chamber. A second one of the two end faces is bounded by a piston which is displaceable along the cylinder axis of the compression chamber and which is subjected to the action of a tensioned spring. The circuit breaker is suited for reliably interrupting both small and large currents, with a comparatively weak and simple drive mechanism for the movable contact member. The piston interacts with a fixed stop which is arranged such that the movement of the piston which is subjected to the action of the tensioned spring is blocked, below a predetermined first gas pressure in the compression chamber, against the movement of one of the contact members which is moved upon the occurrence of a breaking operation in the circuit breaker.

Gas-blast circuit breaker

A sliding seal assembly is provided to admit an operating shaft into the sealed high pressure housing of the interrupter of a high voltage circuit breaker. A heater is contained in the assembly and is coupled to the seals by heat conductive members to maintain the seals at a high enough temperature to ensure their integrity even when the external temperature falls below -55.degree. C.

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Wurenlos, Switzerland

Roland Stelzer