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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:
Nov. 23, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 29, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Edmund O Schweitzer, Jr, Northbrook, IL (US);
Assignee:
E.O. Schweitzer Manfacturing Co., Inc., Mundelein, IL (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R / ; G01R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
324127 ; 324133 ; 324551 ; 336176 ;
Abstract
A clamping mechanism for mounting a circuit condition monitoring device to electrical cables of various diameters includes a core member comprising a plurality of laminations arranged in a generally rectangular configuration. A spring spanning the core member is anchored at one end to the core at a point near the housing of the monitoring device and at the other end is attached to a bridging member affixed at the opposite end of the core near the housing. This allows the spring to expand less as it transverses the bridge in order to accommodate different power cable diameters.