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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.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2003

Filed:

Jun. 13, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:

David A. Leone, Lilburn, GA (US);

Assignee:

Siemens Energy & Automation, Inc., Alpharetta, GA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01H 7/108 ; H01R 4/36 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01H 7/108 ; H01R 4/36 ;
Abstract

A ring tongue lug retainer in a circuit breaker with the circuit breaker having a line bus conductor and a load bus conductor, wherein electrical conductors are connected to the line and load bus conductors. The ring tongue lug retainer comprises a lug body having a throughbore defining at least two interior walls and a threaded screw hole aligned perpendicular to and in communication with the throughbore. A thread portion may be provided in each interior wall of the lug body engages the binding screw configured to threadingly engage the screw hole and the lug body. The binding screw has a ring tongue protrusion configured to engage a ring tongue terminal of the electrical conductors.


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