SWITCH ACTUATING ASSEMBLY IN A CIRCUIT BREAKER PANELBOARD

• Main Author: MILLER, MICHAEL WAYNE
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French
• Published: 31.12.2002
• Edition: 5
• Subjects: BOARDS, SUBSTATIONS, OR SWITCHING ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE SUPPLYOR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER; ELECTRICITY; GENERATION

A circuit breaker panelboard has a rear housing mounting circuit breaker switches arranged in a pair of spaced columns, a front cover releasably attachable to the rear housing for enclosing the circuit breaker switches, and an improved circuit breaker switch actuating assembly coupled to the circuit breaker switches and to the front cover for facilitating manipulation of the switches from the exterior of the front cover. The switch actuating assembly includes operating members and linking members. The operating members are mounted to the front cover and arranged in first and second groups. The operating members of the first group are disposed in a first pair of columns aligned with the pair of columns of circuit breaker switches and are provided in directly coupled relationships with first alternating ones of the circuit breaker switches in the columns. The operating members of the second group are disposed in a second pair of columns respectively displaced laterally outwardly from opposite sides of the pair of columns of circuit breaker switches and are provided in indirectly coupled relationships with second alternating ones of the circuit breaker switches in the columns. The linking members are formed into first and second groups which extend between and interconnect the second alternating ones ofthe circuit breaker switches in the columns and respective ones of the operating members of the second group disposed in the second pair of columns so as to provide the indirectly coupled relationships therebetween.