US Patent Issued to S&C Electric on April 21 for "Automatic drop-out and reset of a vacuum interrupter device in a cutout mounting" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,257, issued on April 21, was assigned to S&C Electric Co. (Chicago).

"Automatic drop-out and reset of a vacuum interrupter device in a cutout mounting" was invented by Thomas Olin Fanta (Wauconda, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An actuation assembly that is part of and operates to open and close a cut-out mounted switching device. The actuation assembly includes components that cause the switching device to be released from an upper coupling assembly when the actuation assembly opens the switching device and causes the switching device to be closed when the switching device is dropping out of the coupling assembly."

The patent...