Colt Disconnects - Electrician Talk - Professional Electrical Contractors Forum

Idaho Abe · 12-28-2007, 06:24 PM

A contractor showed me a disconnect that was manufactured by Colt, The firearms maker, in the 1930's. Has anyone else heard of these before? I never had. The contractor contacted Colt Firearms and talked to someone who verified that during the depression of the 1930's they did experiment in several electrical manufacturing ventures. Any else seen any of this Colt equipment?

JohnJ0906 · 12-28-2007, 06:44 PM

Check the old posts here. I think someone posted pictures of some Colt stuff here. (Could have been on another forum though....)

JohnJ0906 · 12-28-2007, 06:45 PM

Here you go - Colt Firearms - NoArk disconnect.

WoodenSocket · 12-28-2007, 07:31 PM

It was common through the 20's and 30's trailing into the 40's.

Colt manufactured many different types of plugs, switches and circuit breakers and boxes.

I have included a link below that will show some patents, but watch for dates as some of them patented even into the mid 30's were applied for in the 20's and approved later. These items would still be out on the open market as patent applied for, just not approved yet.

http://www.google.com/patents?as_drr...=100&scoring=2

There are other items that they also made like bottle caps and commercial dish washers, but mostly Guns and Electrical items. Out of the Electrical it is mostly cut-outs.

Here is another link that shows mostly all of the electrical:
http://www.google.com/patents?as_drr...=100&scoring=2

I hope this helps

RTurgeon · 07-08-2009, 09:58 PM

I have one of these disconnects and I am trying to find more info on them.

s.kelly · 07-11-2009, 01:48 PM

Got one myself I removed in a remodel. It was being used as a junction box so the guts were ripped out

Still going to clean it up and hang it somewhere.

Toronto Sparky · 07-11-2009, 03:09 PM

Colt Firearms - NoArk disconnect.

Opps just noticed this was already posted.. And no delete :-(