Patent ID: 9735555
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: E05F,H02B

Claim:
1. A mechanical switch-door interlock assembly for an enclosed electrical switching apparatus assembly, said enclosed electrical switching apparatus assembly including an enclosure assembly and an electrical switching apparatus, said enclosure assembly including a housing assembly and a movable cassette, said enclosure assembly housing assembly including a number of sidewalls and a movable door, said enclosure assembly housing assembly sidewalls and said movable door defining an enclosed space, said door movably coupled to said enclosure assembly housing assembly sidewalls and movable over a door path between a closed, door first position and an open, door second position, said cassette movably disposed in said enclosure assembly enclosed space and structured to move between an inserted, cassette first position and a withdrawn, cassette second position, said electrical switching apparatus disposed on said cassette, said electrical switching apparatus including an operating mechanism handle, said operating mechanism handle movable over an operating mechanism handle path between a closed, operating mechanism handle first position, wherein said electrical switching apparatus is energized, and an open, operating mechanism handle second position, wherein said electrical switching apparatus is de-energized, said mechanical switch-door interlock assembly comprising: a mounting assembly including a number of sliding coupling first components; an actuator assembly including a body portion, a door sensor, an operating mechanism handle actuator portion, and a number of sliding coupling second components; said door sensor coupled to said actuator assembly body portion; said operating mechanism handle actuator portion coupled to said actuator assembly body portion; said actuator assembly body portion slidably coupled to said mounting assembly utilizing said mounting assembly sliding coupling first components corresponding to said actuator assembly sliding coupling second components; said mounting assembly structured to be coupled to said cassette at a location wherein said operating mechanism handle actuator portion is disposed in said operating mechanism handle path and said door sensor is disposed in said door path; wherein said actuator assembly body portion translates between an operating, actuator assembly body first position, wherein said operating mechanism handle actuator does not operatively engage said operating mechanism handle, and a non-operating, actuator assembly body second position, wherein said operating mechanism handle actuator portion operatively engages said operating mechanism handle and moves said operating mechanism handle to said operating mechanism handle second position; wherein, when said door is in said door first position, said door operatively engages said door sensor and moves said actuator assembly body portion to said actuator assembly body first position; and wherein, when said door is in said door second position, said door does not operatively engage said door sensor allowing said actuator assembly body portion to move into said actuator assembly body second position.