Patents by Inventor John T. Schultz

John T. Schultz has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4377795
    Abstract: A multipole circuit breaker having a housing with a top wall center recess receiving a center strut of an interior trim. An operating assembly is interconnected with a trip assembly through a transistor link passing beneath the center recess and is operable by the magnetic assembly to assist the operating assembly in separating the breaker contacts in response to a fault current. A closure member overlapped by the interior trim prevents access to the load wires. A voltage reject configuration is provided on the housing to prevent mounting in a panelboard designed to carry voltages higher than that for which the circuit breaker is rated and a jaw assembly for the breaker is disclosed having a plurality of contact positions with each leg of a U shaped bus stab.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1981
    Date of Patent: March 22, 1983
    Assignee: Square D Company
    Inventors: John T. Schultz, Clifford F. Bishop
  • Patent number: 4307359
    Abstract: A multipole circuit breaker having a housing with a top wall center recess receiving a center strut of an interior trim. An operating assembly is interconnected with a trip assembly through a translator link passing beneath the center recess and is operable by the magnetic assembly to assist the operating assembly in separating the breaker contacts in response to a fault current. A closure member overlapped by the interior trim prevents access to the load wires. A voltage reject configuration is provided on the housing to prevent mounting in a panelboard designed to carry voltages higher than that for which the circuit breaker is rated and a jaw assembly for the breaker is disclosed having a plurality of contact positions with each leg of a U shaped bus stab.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1979
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1981
    Assignee: Square D Company
    Inventors: John T. Schultz, Clifford F. Bishop
  • Patent number: 4153318
    Abstract: The following specification describes a bus stab for a panel-board assembly comprising a U shaped bus stab arranged to establish a connection to either a spring clip terminal of a plug-on type circuit breaker or to a bolt-on type terminal of a circuit breaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 8, 1979
    Assignee: Square D Company
    Inventors: Clifford F. Bishop, John T. Schultz
  • Patent number: 4146855
    Abstract: A multi-pole circuit breaker includes a wide toggle shaft which spans all of the poles of the breaker and which is electrically neutral. The lower links of the toggle mechanism are made of phenolic or other insulating material which thus electrically insulates the wide toggle shaft spanning all of the poles of the breaker and makes the toggle shaft electrically neutral. A plurality of short toggle springs may therefore be connected between the wide toggle shaft and a handle arm of corresponding width. The plurality of short toggle springs provide as much tripping energy as the longer single or double toggle springs of prior art circuit breakers in which the springs are clustered together in alignment with one pole of the breaker to which they are electrically connected and whose polarity the toggle springs in such prior art breakers accordingly take.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 1977
    Date of Patent: March 27, 1979
    Assignee: Square D Company
    Inventors: John T. Schultz, James W. Dickens