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Kraus & Naimer is an electrical switchgear manufacturer specializing in load and disconnect switches. Kraus & Naimer is world market leader in modular cam switches. [1] and a supplier of switchgear for industrial customers in the fields of transport (railways, vehicles, ships, etc.), conveyor systems, lift systems, mechanical engineering and power generation and power distribution systems.
They were marketed under the trade name Ghielmetti-Clavier. In September 1948, Kraus & Naimer (of Vienna) produced C15 (15 A), the first company-owned cam switch. In 1949, the company also presented the world's first cam-designed cam switch. At the beginning of 1950, Kraus & Naimer cam switches C30 (30A) were followed with the same design.
Naimer may refer to: Kraus & Naimer, Austrian company producing switchgear, co-founded by Lorentz Naimer (1868–1944) Karen Naimer, Canadian lawyer
Switches can be designed to respond to any type of mechanical stimulus: for example, vibration (the trembler switch), tilt, air pressure, fluid level (a float switch), the turning of a key , linear or rotary movement (a limit switch or microswitch), or presence of a magnetic field (the reed switch). Many switches are operated automatically by ...
Bank of two-motion switches. The Strowger switch is the first commercially successful electromechanical stepping switch telephone exchange system. It was developed by the Strowger Automatic Telephone Exchange Company founded in 1891 by Almon Brown Strowger. Because of its operational characteristics, it is also known as a step-by-step (SXS) switch.
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