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Fuse Cutout Patents

U.S. Letters Patent
1887
  This date was found on a Peru cutout
U.S. Letters Patent
February 11, 1890
   
U.S. Letters Patent
March 31, 1891
   
U.S. Letters Patent
June 5, 1894
  This date was found on a G.E. Cutout

U.S. Letters Patent 569,373
October 13, 1896

   
U.S. Letters Patent 617,608
January 10, 1899
Albert P. Seymour of Syracuse, New York
This date was found on a Pass & Seymour Cutout
Claims:
1.  The fuse passes through a small hole in the plug so that it is hard for an arc to pass through it.
2.  The plug takes up most of the inside of the cutout so that heated gases cannot build-up
3.  The plug has channels to allow the gasses to escape
U.S. Letters Patent
February 11, 1890
  This date was found on a G.E. Cutout
U.S. Letters Patent
March 31, 1891
  This date was found on a G.E. Cutout
U.S. Letters Patent
650,602
May 29, 1900
Louis W. Downes of Providence, Rhode Island  
U.S. Letters Patent
August 11, 1903
James J. Wood, Fort Wayne, Indiana This date was found on a G.E. Cutout
U.S. Letters Patent
785,306
March 21, 1905
Gilbert W. Goodridge, Bridgeport, Connecticut assigned to The Bryant Electric Co., Bridgeport, Connecticut  
U.S. Letters Patent
789,295
May 9, 1905
William D. Packard, Warren, Ohio  
U.S. Letters Patent
July 11, 1905
  This date was found on a Westinghouse Cutout.
U.S. Letters Patent
January 16, 1912
  This date was found on a G.E. Cutout
U.S. Letters Patent
July 23, 1912
   
U.S. Letters Patent
794,435
July 11, 1905
   
U.S. Letters Patent
July 23, 1912
  This date was found on an S & H Cutout
U.S. Letters Patent
1,070,452
August 19, 1913
George B. Griffin, Edgewood, Pennsylvania  
U.S. Letters Patent
1,144,732
June 29, 1915
Edmund O. Schweitzer & Alfred Herz, Chicago, Illinois This date was found on an S & H Cutout
U.S. Letters Patent
1,270,335
June 25, 1918
Edmund O. Schweitzer & Alfred Herz, Chicago, Illinois  

 

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