Improvements in or relating to Overhead Trolley Wires for Electric Traction, Overhead Electric Cables or other Wires

9299. Hacking, R. April 22. Electric railways and tramways with overhead conductors. Conductors.-Relates to means for cutting out of circuit a length of broken trolley wire, electric cable, or other conductor. The ends of the wires at each support are attached to levers C pivoted on a base B of insulating-material or otherwise insulated therefrom. The circuit between these levers C is completed by a second pair of levers E, which are electrically connected, but the circuit is broken by the insulated part I when the lever C tilts owing to breakage of the conductor. In that case, and also when a lever C is withdrawn, the lever E rises or falls into contact with a contact K from which a shunt circuit, which may be through the guard wires, is completed to the adjacent support. For electric railways the part M between the lever C is electrically connected to the levers E, and forms a continuation of the track for the trolley.