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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 1982
Filed:
Jan. 16, 1981
Applicant:
Inventor:
Eldon B Heft, West Hartford, CT (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, New York, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01H / ; H01H / ; H01H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
335 16 ; 335175 ; 335195 ;
Abstract
A rearward extension of a circuit breaker pivotally mounted movable contact arm is positioned, with the arm in its closed position, to engage a trip bar and trip the breaker in response to popping movement of the arm away from its closed position as induced by the flow of high level fault current. The trip bar is configured such that the circuit breaker is not tripped incident to manual operation of the movable arm between its open and closed positions.