Patent ID: 6456485
Filing Date: 2002-09-24
Classification: H02B

Abstract:
A device for releasably connecting a pair of spaced terminals of a circuit breaker in circuit with a conductor of a laminated bus bar, comprisinga housing made of a generally rigid plastic material, and having therein a chamber opening at one end thereof on a front of the housing, and being closed at the opposite end thereof by a back wall of the housing, said back wall of the housing having thereon a plane surface disposed to be secured in coplanar engagement with a plane, external surface of a bus bar, and having formed therein a pair of spaced recesses each of which opens at one end on said plane surface and at its opposite end on said chamber, one of said recesses being disposed to have seated therein a terminal which extends from a conductor in the bus bar to which the plane surface of said back wall is secured, and the other of said recesses having secured therein a terminal of a circuit to which said conductor is to be connected, and said chamber being similar in configuration to, and being disposed to have a circuit breaker releasably inserted into said one end thereof, and with a pair of spaced terminals on the circuit breaker being guided through said openings in said opposite ends of said recesses and into engagement with the terminals therein.