The moving contacts of a circuit breaker are mounted on operating rods made of

resin-impregnated laminated wood or paper-base laminate. In the older and

smaller breakers these rods extend through holes in the tops of the tanks to a
common crossbar or to cranks on a 10 FAULT CLEARING-POWER CIRCUIT
BREAKERS common shaft, thus permitting group operation of all poles of the
breaker. Such breakers are "nonoiltight." When they are called upon to interrupt
large currents, oil may be thrown out of the holes for the rods. Modern breakers
of moderate and high rupturin