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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:
Jan. 12, 1993
Filed:
Dec. 17, 1990
Applicant:
Inventor:
Stephen L Page, Greene, NY (US);
Assignee:
Raymond Corporation, Greene, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
307137 ;
Abstract
A method is described for maintaining silver cadmium oxide alloy tips of an electrical contactor clean and substantially free of contamination involving operating the electrical contactor normally, under its regular working operation, in a cold switching mode, and at intervals of time, separating the tips under a load condition. A procedure is described also for determining at what interval the tips should be separated under the load condition. Apparatus is described that will operate to perform this method automatically.