Sprecher + Schuh Ag

Walter Schaad

Johann Blatter

Peter Kull

A series connection of an auxiliary switching position and a cut-on resistor is connected parallel to at least one primary switching position. A common drive rod is provided with which there is coupled a transmission system operatively associated with the primary switching position as well as a transmission system operatively associated with the auxiliary switching position. The transmission system associated with the auxiliary switching position comprises a cam cooperating with a follower or entrainment member mounted to an actuator rod leading to the auxiliary switching position. For positively controlling the sequence of movements without having to tension a spring during the cut-on of the auxiliary switching position the cam comprises a stationary cam or guide track containing a closed loop engaged by the follower member. Additionally, the follower member traverses an elongated hole of a bracket or cantilever connected with a longitudinally reciprocatable drive rod and extending parallel to the plane of the cam or guide track. The elongated hole extends transversely with respect to the direction of movement of the drive rod at least across the width of the closed loop. The follower member is guided through the closed loop in only one revolving direction of travel.

High-voltage circuit breaker including cut-on resistor

A movable contact element is secured at the end of a thrust rod and therefore can be brought into and out of engagement with a fixed contact element. The free end of the movable contact element is surrounded by a blast nozzle which is likewise secured to the thrust rod. The inlet of the blast nozzle is operatively connected with a pump chamber containing an extinguishing gas and which can be pressurized during the course of a cut-off stroke of the gas-blast switch. This pump chamber is surrounded at its circumference by a cylinder which is displaceably guided upon a stationarily supported piston. To reduce the mass of the parts which are to be accelerated at the start of the cut-off stroke, the blast nozzle itself is constructed as a second piston situated opposite the first-mentioned piston and displaceable relative to the cylinder between two end positions. Means are provided in order to displace, during a cut-off stroke, the cylinder in the same direction or sense as the movable contact element, but however, through a smaller path than such movable contact element.

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Oberentfelden, Switzerland

Walter Schaad