Streams, phones and transitions: toward a new phonological and phonetic model of formant timing

An improved electromagnetic switch device capable of remarkably reducing the arcs which would be produced at the time of opening and closing of the switch. The switch is provided with an arc-cutting contact in either one of the movable and fixed main contacts, the arc-cutting contact being retractively protruded outwardly beyond the contacting surface of the main contact in which it is provided, so that the arc-cutting contact comes into contact with the opposing main contact prior to the engagement of the main contacts, through which the switch is brought into on-operation, while the arc-cutting contact comes out of contact with the opposing main contact after disengagement of the main contacts by which the switch is brought into off-operation.

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