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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 20, 1999
Roger N. Castonguay, Terryville, CT (US);
James L. Rosen, West Hartford, CT (US);
Girish Hassan, Plainville, CT (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
Compliant assembly (,) includes a reset drive (,) mechanically cooperating with a plunger link (,) having a slide interface latch (,) via an intermediate plunger reset spring (,), plunger link (,) also being proximate to plunger (,) to both accept strikage from or become in mechanical cooperation with plunger (,) and to reset plunger (,) from the protruded position to the retracted position. Further, in the detailed embodiment, reset drive (,) also mechanically cooperates with slide link (,) via an intermediate slide reset spring (,), slide link (,) also being proximate slide (,) to reset slide (,) from the unlatched or released position (after, for example, a trip event causes plunger (,) to protrude into contact with plunger link (,) thereby releasing slide interface latch (,) from slide latch seat (,) of slide (,)) to the latched or set position.