An Improved Multiple Distributing Electric Out-out.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Apr., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 10th Jan., 1895-Accepted, 16th Feb., 1895
An Improved Multiple Distributing Electric Out-out.
ALBERT HIGGINS Electrical Engineer 48 Osnaburgh Street Regents Park
London N.W. County of Middlesex do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
I employ for my invention a circular, or semi-circular base made from porcelain,
slate, china, or any other suitable insulator, with a centre brass main terminal.
The outside of base is divided up & fitted for the desired number of terminals
& the fuses are fixed from the outer circuit terminals to centre main terminal.
The base can be made any shape or design.
Dated this the 10th day of April 1894
An improved Multiple Distributing Electric Cut-out.
ALBERT HIGGINS Electrical Engineer 48 Osnaburgh Street Regents Park
London N.W. do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement :-
I employ for my invention as a multiple single pole electric cut out a circular
semi-circular or other base made from porcelain, slate or any other suitable
insulator, or from enamelled iron, with a centre main terminal, of a circular or
other shape, so arranged as to be common to one end of a set of fuses, the outer
edge of the base is divided up and fitted for the desired number of terminals for
the outer circuits and the fuses are fixed between the centre main terminal and the
outer circuit terminals as shewn in my drawings accompanying this Specification.
I employ for my invention as a multiple, duplex or double pole electric cut out a
circular base as before described, inade up in two halves, or in one piece with a bar
across the centre and is fitted with two centre main terminals, the outer edge
divided up and fitted with the desired number of outer circuit terminals as shewn
in my drawings Sheet 2 Fig. 3 and 4.
In the drawings accompanying this Specification I have shewn the centre main
terminal B in a circular or partly circular form with clips to take a bridge piece F,
of insulating material with fuse wire attached, the other end of the bridge piece
being fixed in the clip of the opposite outer circuit terminal C.
The current is brought to the terminal by means of a nut and special bolt as
shewn in the section Fig. 2 and 4.
The terminals can also be made with a screw contact and I do not limit myself
to the precise form shewn.
Fig. 1 and 2 are respectively the plan and section of a multiple single pole cut
out of my design in which A is the base, B is the centre main terminal, C the
outer circuit terminal F is the bridge fuse.
Fig. 3 and 4 are respectively the plan and section of a multiple, duplex or
double pole cut out, in which the base A is made of one piece of porcelain or other
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page_text: suitable insulator with a bar E across the centre, in one piece with the base A and
separates the two poles from one another.
Fig. 5 is a view of one of the outer circuit terminals as arranged to take the
bridge fuse.
All the terminals are fixed to the base A by means of screws G from the under
side as shewn in Fig. 2 and 4.
Provision is made for fixing the whole by means of screws through screw holes D
in square flange as shewn.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
1. A circular or other base of porcelain, slate or other suitable insulating material
or enamelled iron, made and divided out to take desired number of outer circuit
terminals and one or more centre main terminals and with or without bar across
centre.
2. A centre main terminal made in a circular or partly circular form and with
clip for screw contact.
3. The combination of a circular or other base as above, with one or more
circular main terminals as above, and with a number of outer circuit terminals as
shewn and described.
Dated this 9th day of January 1895.
ALBERT HIGGINS.