Charles E Weimer

US Patent:

39565742, May 11, 1976

Filed:

Feb 22, 1974

Appl. No.:

5/444941

Inventors:

Charles L. Weimer - Beaver Falls PA

Assignee:

Westinghouse Electric Corporation - Pittsburgh PA

International Classification:

H01B 702

US Classification:

174 68B

Abstract:

An elongated section of bus duct having U-shaped insulating pieces surrounding the longitudinally extending edges of the stacked bus bars and a flat insulating sheet of a material which does not adhere to the U-shaped insulating pieces disposed between the bus bars. The flat insulating sheets can also be disposed between the housing and the outside stacked bus bars which are compressed by the housing. The non self-adhering U-shaped pieces and the flat insulating sheets permit the insulated bus bars to slide with respect to each other due to differentials in expansion and contraction of the bus bars. The sliding action, of the U-shaped insulating pieces and the flat insulating sheet, prevents rupture of the primary insulation layer which is applied to the bus bars and which is self-adhering at operating temperatures and pressures.

US Patent:

46276807, Dec 9, 1986

Filed:

May 8, 1985

Appl. No.:

6/731698

Inventors:

Charles L. Weimer - Patterson Heights PA
Barry R. Richards - Beaver PA

Assignee:

Westinghouse Electric Corp. - Pittsburgh PA

International Classification:

H01R 1100

US Classification:

339 22B

Abstract:

A busway joint construction for electrically connecting and disconnecting busway sections of bus bars and characterized by a detachable joint assembly having pairs of plates extending between longitudinally spaced bus bars; one plate being an electrical conductor; the other plate being a non-conductor and having integral transversely extending spacers for maintaining the conductor plates of adjacent bus bars in spaced relation to facilitate insertion of the joint assembly; and the spacers including support surfaces for the electrical conductor.