Circuit breaker instantaneous trip adjustment

Claim 1

A MANUALLY OPERABLE ARMATURE POSITIONING MEANS FOR ADJUSTING THE AIR GAP OF A CIRCUIT BREAKER TRIP ASSEMBLY, SAID ARMATURE POSITIONING MEANS COMPRISING BRACKET MEANS FOR MOUNTING TO A CIRCUIT BREAKER SUPPORT MEMBER, AN ADJUSTING ROD, SAID BRACKET MEANS INCLUDING APERTURE MEANS FOR RECEIVING SAID ADJUSTING ROD, SUCH THAT SAID ADJUSTING ROD IS ROTATABLE ABOUT ITS CENTRAL AXIS, A FIRST END OF SAID ADJUSTING ROD FREELY PASSING THROUGH SAID APERTURE MEANS AND OUTWARDLY PROJECTING TOWARDS AN EXTERNALLY ACCESSIBLE REGION OF THE CIRCUIT BREAKER TRIP ASSEMBLY, THE SECOND END OF SAID ADJUSTING ROD CARRYING AN ENLARGED PORTION, APPRECIABLY GREATER THAN SAID APERTURE MEANS AND ABUTTING AN ADJACENT REGION OF SAID BRACKET MEANS, SAID ENLARGED PORTION INCLUDING FIRST AND SECOND SURFACES, SAID FIRST SURFACE INCLUDING A PLURALITY OF ANGULARLY SPACED, RADIALLY EXTENDING, INDEXING RECESSES, SAID ADJACENT BRACKET REGION INCLUDING AN INTEGRALLY FORMED PROTRUSION COOPERATIVELY ENTERING A PRESELECTABLE ONE OF SAID RECESSES, SAID SECOND SURFACE INCLUDING A CAM SURFACE IN ENGAGEMENT WITH AN ADJUSTMENT MEMBER CONNECTED TO A MAGNETIC TRIP ARMATURE, THE ROTATION OF SAID ADJUSTING ROD PRESENTING DIFFERENT PORTIONS OF SAID CAM SURFACE IN ENGAGEMENT WITH SAID ADJUSTMENT MEMBER, WITH THE ENTERING OF SAID BRACKET PROTRUSION WITHIN A PRESELECTABLE ONE OF SAID INDEXING RECESSES MAINTAINING THE ENGAGEMENT OF A PRESELECTABLE PORTION OF SAID CAM SURFACE AND SAID ARMATURE ADJUSTMENT MEMBER, SAID ADJUSTING ROD HAVING AN AXIALLY EXTENDING INTERNAL CAVITY, A BIASING MEANS LOCATED WITHIN SAID INTERNAL OPENING, A ROD EXTENSION MEMBER HAVING A FIRST END FREELY ENTERING SAID INTERNAL OPENING AND POSITIONED AGAINST SAID BIASING MEANS, AND A SECOND END EXTENDING OUTWARD OF SAID INTERNAL CAVITY, BEYOND THE SECOND END OF SAID ADJUSTING ROD, WITH SAID BIASING MEANS URGING SAID SECOND END OUTWARD OF SAID INTERNAL CAVITY, A MEMBER OF SAID TRIP ASSEMBLY ABUTTING SAID SECOND END OF SAID ROD EXTENSION AND DEFINING A STOP MEANS FOR LIMITING THE OUTWARD MOVEMENT OF SAID ROD EXTENSION SECOND END SUCH THAT SAID ADJUSTING ROD IS BIASED IN A DIRECTION FORCIBLY URGING SAID ENLARGED PORTION FIRST SURFACE AGAINST SAID REGION OF SAID MOUNTING BRACKET THEREABOUT, WITH THE PRESELECTABLE ONE OF SAID INDEXING RECESS BEING RETAINED IN FIRM ENGAGEMENT WITH SAID BRACKET PROTRUSION.