Abstract: An electrical contact breaker has a stationary contact, and a movable contact. The movable contact is connected to a terminal by a flexible conductor. For blowing out the arc formed when the contacts separate under load, there is a blowing means including a winding traversed by the current, and pole pieces directing the magnetic field of the winding to the vicinity of the arc gap. The improvement is that the winding is constituted by at least part of the flexible conductor.

Abstract: An adding flowmeter comprises a liquid chamber and is divided into two chamber parts by a membrane fixed to a slide which is able to move along a rod. The rod controls a slide valve for the supply and discharge of liquid to and from each of the chamber parts. By means of two abutments against which the slide bears on the rod, the membrane is able to move this rod in order to reverse the supply and discharge connections of the flowmeter so that the membrane carries out a reciprocating movement, filling one of the half-chambers and emptying the other, then vice versa. The number of changes of state of the slide valve are counted to determine the volume of liquid which has circulated in the flowmeter.

Abstract: An improved supply circuit for electromagnets. The supply circuit comprises a bridge rectifier, an attracting winding positioned in the diagonal of the bridge rectifier, a holding winding placed on the magnetic circuit of the electromagnet, and an isolating contact which isolates the bridge at the end of the pulling-in course of the movable member of the magnetic circuit. The holding winding being connected in parallel across the system formed by the isolating contact and the bridge rectifier.