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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
James Lawrence Rosen, West Hartford, CT (US);
Roger Neil Castonguay, Terryville, CT (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01H 5/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01H 5/00 ;
Abstract
A motor operator mechanism is disclosed for moving a breaker handle of a circuit breaker between off and on positions. The motor operator mechanism comprises of a first pin biased to engage the breaker handle in a direction to close the circuit breaker, a pin latch configured to releasably engage the first pin when the breaker handle is in a position intermediate to the off and on positions, wherein releasing the pin latch allows the first pin to move the breaker handle to the on position.