Contact block assembly and a method of assembling a contact block assembly
AssigneeSiemens Energy & Automation, Inc.
InventorChristian H. Passow
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Abstract
A contact block assembly comprising a pusher having a body portion; a window formed in the body portion; a movable contact positioned within the window; a recess formed in the body portion; a first spring positioned within the recess and abutting the movable contact; and second spring positioned outside the pusher and abutting the movable contact is disclosed. A method of assembling a contact block assembly, the method comprising the steps of inserting a first spring into a recess in a pusher; inserting a movable contact within a window of the pusher and in contact with the first spring; and positioning a second spring outside the pusher and in contact with the movable contact.
Claims6
A contact block assembly comprising:
- a pusher having an elongate body portion;
- a window formed in said body portion;
- a movable contact positioned with and extending through said window;
- a recess formed longitudinally in said body portion;
- a first spring positioned within said recess and abutting said movable contact;
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- a second spring positioned outside said pusher and surrounding a portion of said pusher and abutting said movable contact to act on the movable contact opposite the first spring.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.