Patents Examined by Paul L. Gellner
  • Motor control center interlock assembly
    Patent number: 6284989
    Abstract: A two-part motor control center interlock arrangement has a handle support plate and interlock slide positioned on an interior of the control center door operating by insertion of a tapered pin on the door interior within a key-hole slot on the interlock slide. The elongated slot of the key-hole slot automatically compensates for any tolerance accumulation between a circuit breaker handle, an interlock operating handle and the control center access door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2001
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Richard Emery Bernier, Gilbert Anthony Soares, Edgar Yee