Reset lockout and trip for circuit interrupting device
AssigneeLeviton Manufacturing Co., Inc.
InventorsFrantz Germain, Stephen Stewart
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AssigneeLeviton Manufacturing Co., Inc.
InventorsFrantz Germain, Stephen Stewart
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This invention relates to a circuit interrupting device having a trip button for disconnecting a load from a source of electrical power and a reset button for resetting the device after it has tripped. When the device is operating in its reset state, a source of electrical power is connected to a load through a set of contacts located within the device. The contacts are held closed by the spring loaded reset button which holds captive and urges a latch plate to move up to close normally open contacts. In the preferred mechanical trip mechanism, depressing the trip button causes the latch plate to move forward and be released from the reset button. The latch plate, upon being released from the reset button moves down to allow the contacts, which are biased to be normally open, to assume their normally open position. At this time, pressing the reset button initiates an electrical cycle which causes the normally open contacts to close only if the device is operating properly and there is no fault on the line. The device described is mechanically tripped and electrically reset, and it can be tripped without power being supplied to the device.
A mechanically tripped, electrically reset circuit interrupting device comprising:
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