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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 29, 1997
Thomas K Fogle, Shaler Township, PA (US);
John J Henwood, Beaver, PA (US);
Anthony T Ricciuti, Mt. Lebanon, PA (US);
Eaton Corporation, Cleveland, OH (US);
Abstract
A slide bar interlock for interlocking adjacent first and second circuit breakers having dissimilar actuating means and preventing the first and second circuit breakers from simultaneously being in a closed operating position. The slide bar interlock includes a housing and a slide bar received in the housing. The slide bar includes a first end which extends from the housing adjacent to the first circuit breaker and a second end which extends from the housing adjacent to the second circuit breaker. The slide bar is slidable between a first position where the first end of the slide bar blocks operation of a pivoting actuating handle of the first circuit breaker and a second position where the second end of the slide bar maintains a push-to-open button of the push button actuating means of the second circuit breaker in an actuated position. The second end of the slide bar includes a pin member which is received in a transverse aperture formed in the push-to-open button for maintaining the push-to-open button in the actuated position.