Patent information:
| Patent: | Utility 930,141 |
| Patented: | August 3, 1909 |
| Applied: | September 6, 1907 |
| Title: | Automatic Safety Device |
| Description: | A rotating metal member that catches a broken wire and shorts out the line effectively turning off the power before the line drops to the ground where it could have harmed someone coming in contact with the broken wire. |
| Category: | Miscellaneous |
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Patentee Information:
| BOURDIL, Francois Fernand | Paris,, France |
Class and subclass information:
| Class: | 200 | ELECTRICITY: CIRCUIT MAKERS AND BREAKERS |
| Subclass: | 79 | SUSPENDED-WIRE CONTROLLED; |
Known specimens:
| None known |
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