Compressed-gas-actuated switching device

US4188856A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Dynamit Nobel GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Hellmut Bendler · Birkenfeld, DE
• Gerrit Scheiderer · Fürth, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 16, 1978
• Grant date: Feb 19, 1980
• Expiry date: Jan 16, 1998

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F16K13/06
• WIPO field: Mechanical elements
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A compressed-gas-actuated switching device including a housing, at least one primer for generating compressed gas and an actuating element for actuating a device to be actuated in response to generated compressed gas. The switching device further includes a mechanical triggering arrangement in combination with at least one of an electrical and a thermal triggering arrangement for initiating the at least one primer element.