Patent ID: 9105427
Filing Date: 2015-08-11
Classification: H01H,H02B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. Current path structure for providing a current path between an interrupter assembly and a resistor assembly of a dead tank circuit breaker, the circuit breaker having a pole assembly including a first tank, housing the interrupter assembly, and a second tank, in communication with the first tank and substantially parallel there-with, housing the resistor assembly, the current path structure comprising: an electrically conductive fixed support having first and second ends, the first end being constructed and arranged to be fixed to one of the interrupter assembly or the resistor assembly, the fixed support having an outside diameter, a substantially hollow, electrically conductive conductor having first and second ends, with a connector at the first end thereof, the connector being constructed and arranged to be removably connected to the other of the interrupter assembly or the resistor assembly, the conductor having an inside diameter greater than the outside diameter of the fixed support, and coupling structure constructed and arranged to removably couple the conductor with the fixed support such that when coupled, the current path structure is in an operative position electrically connecting the interrupter assembly with the resistor assembly, and when decoupled, the fixed support can be moved into telescoping relation within the conductor defining a collapsed position of the current path structure.