Electrical plug retaining device

Details Electrical plug retaining device Electrical plug retaining device

1985-11-26

1987-03-24

McQuade, John

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339103R, H01R 13639

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046520694

ABSTRACT:
A device for ensuring retention of electrical plugs in outlets includes a base plate and a selectively releasable retaining member saddle. The base plate is semi-permanently secured between the face plate of the outlet and the wall. The base plate preferably is rectangular and includes a pair of arms which extend from opposite edges of the base plate and which are perpendicular to the plane of the base plate. The arms each include a complexly configured channel which receives a pair of spaced apart pins extending from the retaining member. The retaining member is generally U-shaped, having parallel sides which slidably engage the base plate arms and a slot centrally disposed on the base of the U-shape which receives a cord. The pins on the retaining member cooperate with the channels in the base plate arms to retain it there, to limit it to pivoting motion to receive a plug and its associated cord and to releasably secure the cordal plug, thereby securing the plug in the outlet.

REFERENCES:
patent: 2569037 (1951-09-01), Dalton
patent: 4066313 (1978-01-01), von dem Hagen
Popular Mechanics, vol. No. 112, Issue No. 5, 11/1959, p. 164.

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