Circuit breaker lockout apparatus
AssigneeABUS August Bremicker Söhne KG
InventorsThomas Lind, Manuel Cornelius Neveling, Tobias Weiß
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Abstract
A circuit breaker lockout apparatus, in particular to a motor circuit breaker lockout apparatus, includes two half-shell like housing parts, in particular housing halves, and an adjustment element. The two housing parts are assembled to form a housing shell having a rear wall and that are connected to one another via a pivot joint that defines a pivot axis about which the two housing parts are pivotable relative to one another between a release position and a clamping position. The adjustment element is adjustable between a base position and a locked position and that is in particular rotatable about an axis of rotation in order to transfer the two housing parts from the release position to the clamping position.
Claims20
A circuit breaker lockout apparatus comprising
- two housing parts that are assembled to form a housing shell having a rear wall and that are connected to one another via a pivot joint that defines a pivot axis about which the two housing parts are pivotable relative to one another between a release position and a clamping position;
- and
- an adjustment element that is adjustable between a base position and a locked position in order to transfer the two housing parts from the release position into the clamping position, the adjustment element includes a drive section and a manually actuable rotary handle, the drive section engages at the two housing parts and the manually actuable rotary handle is at least rotationally fixedly connected to the drive section in order to adjust the adjustment element between the base position and the locked position.
A circuit breaker lockout apparatus comprising
- two housing parts that are assembled to form a housing shell having a rear wall and that are connected to one another via a pivot joint that defines a pivot axis about which the two housing parts are pivotable relative to one another between a release position and a clamping position;
- and
- an adjustment element that is adjustable between a base position and a locked position in order to transfer the two housing parts from the release position into the clamping position,
- wherein the adjustment element has a drive section that engages at the two housing parts,
- wherein the drive section comprises a control cam that differs from a circular shape and that has two mutually oppositely disposed flat regions as well as two mutually oppositely disposed end face regions, and
- wherein the drive section has a respective web at both sides of the control cam, with the adjustment element being held at the rear wall in an axial direction by each web.
A circuit breaker lockout apparatus comprising
- two housing parts that are assembled to form a housing shell having a rear wall and that are connected to one another via a pivot joint that defines a pivot axis about which the two housing parts are pivotable relative to one another between a release position and a clamping position;
- and
- an adjustment element that is adjustable between a base position and a locked position in order to transfer the two housing parts from the release position into the clamping position,
- wherein the adjustment element has a drive section that engages at the two housing parts,
- wherein the drive section comprises a control cam that differs from a circular shape and that has two mutually oppositely disposed flat regions as well as two mutually oppositely disposed end face regions, and
- wherein with the two end face regions being oriented in a direction of the pivot axis of the pivot joint in the base position of the adjustment element, with the adjustment element being rotatably supported by the drive section in a recess that is formed in the rear wall of the housing shell and with the recess being proportionally formed in one housing part and proportionally formed in the other housing part.
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