Rotary motion switching apparatus usable with circuit interrupter
AssigneeEaton Intelligent Power Limited
InventorsJohn Thomas Clark, Ramesh Shivaji Powar, Sujit Subhash Patwardhan
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Abstract
A rotary motion switching apparatus is usable with a circuit interrupter and employs an attachment system in order to resist removal of the rotary motion switching apparatus from the circuit interrupter. The attachment system has three connectors that are engaged with an exterior surface of a housing of the circuit interrupter. The portions of the housing that are engaged by the three connectors are pre-existing portions of the exterior surface of the housing of the circuit interrupter.
Claims15
A rotary motion switching apparatus that is usable with a number of circuit interrupters, each circuit interrupter of the number of circuit interrupters having a housing and further having a switch situated on the housing, the rotary motion switching apparatus comprising:
- a base;
- an attachment system situated on the base, the attachment system comprising a first connector, a second connector, and a third connector that are structured to engage a housing of a circuit interrupter of the number of circuit interrupters to retain the housing between the first, second, and third connectors and to affix the base to the housing;
- a crank apparatus situated on the base, the crank apparatus comprising a first portion and second portion, the first portion being pivotable about an axis of rotation between a first orientation and a second orientation, the first portion and the second portion being engaged with one another at a location spaced from the axis of rotation, at least a part of the second portion being translatable along a movement axis between a first position and a second position, the first portion being in the first orientation when the at least part of the second portion is in the first position, the first portion being in the second orientation when the at least part of the second portion is in the second position;
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- the second portion having a number of lugs that are structured to engage a switch of a circuit interrupter of the number of circuit interrupters and to move the switch between a first state and a second state, the at least part of the second portion being structured to be in the first position when the switch is in the first state, the at least part of the second portion being structured to be in the second position when the switch is in the second state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.