Abstract: A dielectric cover system for an insulator supporting a high voltage conductor is molded to fit over the insulator to cover at least a top portion of the insulator and the conductor in contact with the insulator. A clip internal to the cover allows the cover to be freely placed over the insulator and then effectively restricts an inner diameter of the cover at a reduced diameter neck portion of the insulator, such that the clip blocks the cover from being lifted off the insulator and rotated about the insulator during high wind conditions. The clip is particularly effective where the conductor is supported in a side groove of the insulator, so the insulator and conductor form an asymmetric structure.

Abstract: An electrical power line insulator has an end clamp with a saddle for supporting an electrical wire, a track provided on a front surface of the saddle, a keeper for compressing and supporting an electrical wire seated in the saddle, a bolt and a nut for fastening the keeper to the saddle and operable to horizontally move the keeper along the track, and an insulator housing secured to the end clamp and mounted on a support structure. The end clamp and the insulator housing are detachably assembled with each other by means of a cylindrical clamp base integrally provided on a lower portion of the saddle and the track of the clamp and an upper fitting part.

Abstract: A winding insulation structure for shrouding an iron core of coils or coil sets of various stages to provide desired insulation effect includes an inner tube located in an inner annular ring of the iron core or coil sets of various stages, and two elastic caps symmetrically located on two axial sides of the iron core or coil sets of various stages. The inner tube and the two caps can shroud the iron core or coil sets of various stages closely to achieve better insulation effect. The insulation structure also may be assembled rapidly for the annular coils.

Abstract: An end fitting with optimized weight for supporting an end of a device, such as an insulator, placed under tension. The end fitting has a mounting sleeve for coupling the end fitting to a core member, a mounting hole for receiving a cylindrical mounting pin therethrough and a cutout or removed portion positioned between the mounting hole and the mounting sleeve for optimizing the weight of the end fitting. The mounting hole can optionally be provided with a pair of contacting points spaced laterally relative to the vector line of force to redirect the tensile load applied to the end fitting by a mounting pin located in the mounting hole. The end fitting is especially useful in insulators subjected to tensile loads.

Abstract: An electrical insulator comprising a cylindrical core (2) of an insulating refractory material, such as porcelain, onto a portion of the curved surface of which a sleeve (8) of insulating polymeric material is fitted. Metal end-caps (4), for electrically connecting the insulator, are fitted to the ends of the porcelain core such that there is an exposed portion (10) of the curved surface of the core between the sleeve and each end-cap. Thus, any damaging electrical activity which takes place at the metal end-caps is directed primarily onto the surface of the porcelain core (2), and not onto the surface of the electrically vulnerable polymeric sleeve (8), which serves to protect mechanically the relatively brittle porcelain core. Optionally, the polymeric sleeve (8) may have a convoluted or a shedded outer surface (12) to increase the leakage path length of the insulator, or to prevent the formation of a continuous moisture path, or both.

Abstract: An insulator for use in a suspension-type line arrester that supports a transmission line is disclosed. Such line arresters have a plurality of insulators connected in a string. The insulators have linking members configured to prevent relative rotation between adjacent insulators in the line arrester's insulator string.

Abstract: A fuse box has a fuse cavity for receiving the body of a blade type fuse having blade-like male terminals projecting from the body into an insertion direction of the blade type fuse. The body of blade type fuse has opposed ends extending into the insertion direction and a side rib provided on each of the opposed ends and extending into the insertion direction. The fuse cavity has opposed walls for receiving therebetween the opposed ends of the blade type fuse when the blade type fuse is inserted. The fuse cavity also has two pairs of second ribs on the opposed walls, each pair being positioned to define a receiving groove therebetween for receiving the side rib of the blade type fuse.

Abstract: An improved fastening device. The fastener portion itself usually comprises a vise rotatably mounted on a base for connection to a support. In a first preferred embodiment the vise is mounted on a cylindrical stem rotatably mounted within a housing of the base having a cylindrical bore, the axis of rotation of the stem thus being the axis of rotation of the vise. In a second preferred embodiment, the base provides a cylindrical stem and the vise provides a housing with a cylindrical bore in which the stem is rotatably mounted. The vise has a pair of jaws between which a cable is fastened such that the neutral axis of the fastened cable is substantially perpendicular to the rotational axis of the vise.

Abstract: A switch apparatus comprising a switch mechanism including a first contact, and a second contact movable into and out of engagement with the first contact for respectively closing and opening the switch mechanism, an operating rod assembly connected to the second contact for moving the second contact into and out of engagement with the first contact in response to movement of the operating rod assembly, the operating rod assembly including an operating rod having an outer surface, a first end adapted to be connected to a prime mover, and an opposite second end, and a conductive member connected to the second end of the operating rod and to the second contact, the conductive member having a construction for reducing the magnitude of electrical stress adjacent the outer surface and for positioning electrical stress away from the outer surface, and a pressure vessel for enclosing the switch mechanism and the operating rod assembly and surrounding the switch mechanism and the assembly with dielectric gas.

Abstract: Assembly composed of a rod (6) and a tubular sleeve body (1), such as a terminal holder for a rod-shaped insulator core, wherein one end of the rod (6) is inserted into and retained in the interior of the sleeve. The interior of the sleeve (1) comprises a guide portion (9) of a diameter essentially corresponding to the diameter of the rod (6), and a widened portion (12) arranged inside of the guide portion (9). The end portion of the rod (6) is formed with a portion (7) of reduced diameter and a portion (8) widened therefrom towards the end of the rod. A plurality of locking bodies in the form of spheres (21) are disposed in the annular space (23) formed between the widened portion (12) of the sleeve body (1) and the rod portion (7) of reduced diameter, and in a locking position these spheres bear against the inner wall of the sleeve and the outer wall of the rod (6), these spheres being kept in place by a hardened binding agent (22) filling said annular space (23).

Abstract: An insulator core including a rod (20) fitted with a sheath (12) and with insulating fins (2,3) is fixed in a metal cap (10,10') by embedding the end (1) of the rod (20) in an organic embedding substance (9) in a thimble (5,5'), which has undercut zones and a flange (7) which is bonded or crimped to the sheath in a sealed manner, and embedding the thimble (5,5') in the cap (10,10') using a cheap inorganic cement (11). The thimble is coated with an anti-adhesive layer (27) which does not adhere to the embedding cement.

Abstract: An insulator core made of an organic substance and including a central rod (1) fitted with an insulating covering (4) is fixed in a metal cap (8) which is not machined.The end of the rod has undercut zones such as circumferential channels (10) or double cones (9), and a ductile metal cup (5) whose edges are made integral with the insulating covering (4) in a sealed manner is crimped on the rod. The cup (5) is itself embedded in the cap (8) by means of an organic cement or embedding substance (7) which is reinforced.

Abstract: An insulator comprising a rod made of continuous glass fiber impregnated with epoxy resin, metal end fittings, and a polymeric sheath. The rod is tightly embedded in the sheath and the ends of the rod are pressed into the fittings. The sheath consists of alternately mounted segments of two types: spacing sleeves made of elastic material and externally profiled sleeves made of stiff material. The spacing sleeve has beads at the ends. In order to transfer axial forces, the spacing sleeves are partly covered by the profiled sleeves, said covered portion including the beaded ends. The method by which this insulator is made consists in that, first, the spacing sleeves, made of silicone rubber, are cast directly onto the rod by the pressure-injection method; second, the rod is covered by a layer of adhesive agent from the silicone group and, third, in the interspaces formed between the spacing sleeves, the profiled sleeves are cast in a split mold by means of the injection method.

Abstract: The invention relates to line insulators made of organic material. Such an insulator comprises a bar (7) of high tensile strength, a protective sheath (8) made of an elastomer material, a plurality of fins (4) and an anchor fitting (2) at each end. In accordance with the invention, at least one inner part of the insulator is semiconductive along the whole length which separates the anchor fittings (2); this part may be constituted either by the sheath (8) itself or by the bar (7) and the bedding material in said fittings. Application, in particular, to line insulators intended for use in highly polluted zones.

Abstract: A synthetic resin insulator comprising a fiber-reinforced plastic rod, metal fittings which hold both ends of the fiber-reinforced plastic rod, and a seamless unitary overcoat which consists of an elastic insulating material. The overcoat covers that part of the surface of the fiber-reinforced plastic rod located between the metal fittings. The external surface of the overcoat is formed into a plurality of sheds, and the metal fittings have metal sleeves pressed onto the end portions of the overcoat, so that those end portions are sandwiched between the metal sleeves and the fiber reinforced plastic rod. The elongation of the outer surface of the overcoat resulting from assembly with the fiber-reinforced plastic rod and pressing of the sleeves is not higher than 2%.

Abstract: Electrical insulator comprising an ouer tube of dielectric material filled with blocks of dielectric foam and sealed at its ends.The filling is manufactured independently of the tube in a material of substantially compatible coefficient of thermal expansion. The filling is connected to the inner surface of the tube by an adhesive interface material which provides good mechanical and electrical connection between the tube and its filling.Application to electrical insulators which are of large diameter and/or great length.

Abstract: For fixing metal sheaths on glass fiber reinforced plastic rods, which rods are used, for example, in composite insulators: the sheath is in a number of sections in a longitudinal array; there is an abutment inside the sheath at each sheath section, there is a shoulder piece on the outside of the rod inside each sheath section; the abutment in a sheath section is at one longitudinal side of the respective shoulder piece in that sheath section; elastic and compliant buffer means, such as springs, or the like, are placed between the abutment and its shoulder piece; the compliance of the buffer means increases toward one end of the arrangement to compensate for the different rates of expansion of the sheath and the rod; other embodiments all have appropriate buffer means in each sheath section, which buffer means increase in compliance moving toward the end of the sheath through which the rod exits.

Abstract: Structure intended to transmit great mechanical stresses, comprising an elongated core comprising at least an agglomerated glass fibre rod and fixing armatures fitted to the ends of the core, comprising means exerting radial compression stresses or stresses tending to jam the rod and maintaining at least partly those efforts in a zone of the structure situated in the armatures, even when the structure is not subjected to mechanical stresses. The structure has application to insulators for electric apparatus, stays, suspension of electric power conveying lines.FIELD OF THE INVENTIONThe present invention concerns a structure intended for transmitting great mechanical stresses, comprising an elongated core comprising at least one rod of agglomerated glasse fibres and fixing armatures fitted to the ends of the core, by means of which the mechanical efforts are transmitted. It relates more particularly to an improvement in the connection between core and armature of such structures.