Abstract:
The screw has a tool-receiving recess comprising a basically cylindrical outer recessed portion and a hexagonal inner recessed portion. The outer recessed portion has a plurality of nubs or protrusions spaced circumferentially around its cylindrical wall. A conventional hexagonal allen wrench inserted in the outer recessed portion is used to tighten the screw by engagement with the nubs. The nubs are designed so that they will be sheared by the wrench when a predetermined torque is exerted by the wrench. The screw can be loosened by the wrench when the wrench is received in the inner recessed portion. In one embodiment, the wrench can be inserted in the inner recessed portion before the nubs are sheared; in a second embodiment, shearing of the nubs is necessary before the wrench can be inserted in the inner recessed portion.
Abstract:
A panelboard of the type having a plurality of open front compartments adapted to accommodate electrical devices, respectively, and arranged in an upright row, each compartment having an individual cover. Each cover is connected at its upper margin to the panel adjacent the top of its associated compartment. The lower margin of the cover of each compartment overlies and conceals the connection of the cover of the compartment immediately therebeneath. A rain tight seal is provided by a combination of the shapes of forward margins of the compartment walls, the shapes of flanges and lower margins of the respective covers comparable with said margins, and the arrangement of gaskets between the coacting flanges and margins.
Abstract:
A system of components which can be grouped into sets for assembly in various configurations to provide electrical neutral bar assemblies of different shapes and having different numbers of neutral-wire-receiving openings. The system, which is particularly suitable for use with neutral wires of relatively large ampacity, includes a plurality of insulating bases, a plurality of neutral bars of different lengths, and an interconnecting plate. One or more of the bases and one or more of the neutral bars with or without the interconnecting plate are arranged to be secured together in different configurations by bolts.