Patent ID: 8859918

Claim:
A position indicator for a circuit breaker, the circuit breaker including a housing assembly, the circuit breaker housing assembly including a body, a terminal assembly including a terminal and an elongated terminal fastener, the housing assembly body including an alignment surface, the terminal including a body defining a terminal fastener passage and a conductor passage, the terminal fastener disposed in the terminal fastener passage and structured to move between two positions, a first position, wherein the terminal fastener is not set, and a second position, wherein the terminal fastener is set, the position indicator comprising: an indicator member including an alignment surface; an elongated spacer member; the spacer member coupled to the indicator member and extending away from the indicator member alignment surface; the indicator member movably coupled to the circuit breaker housing assembly adjacent the terminal fastener with the spacer member generally aligned with the terminal fastener; the indicator member structured to move between a first position, wherein the indicator member alignment surface is not aligned with the housing assembly body alignment surface, and a second position, wherein the indicator member alignment surface is generally aligned with the housing assembly body alignment surface; and wherein the spacer member engages the terminal fastener when the terminal fastener is in the terminal fastener first position and the spacer member prevents the indicator member from moving into the indicator member second position.