Electricity: conductors and insulators – Covers or face plates – With closure for face plate opening
Patent
1998-03-17
2000-04-18
Reichard, Dean A.
Electricity: conductors and insulators
Covers or face plates
With closure for face plate opening
220242, H02G 314
Patent
active
060517883
ABSTRACT:
An electrical outlet safety plate is configured to preclude simultaneous contact of the fingers of a person with the electrical contact prongs of an electrical plug, when the prongs of the plug are also in contact with the electrical contacts of a receptacle protected by the present safety plate. The plate has a depth which is greater than standard, preferably about one half inch. The electrical receptacles of an outlet protected by the present plate, are correspondingly recessed below the outer or front face of the plate. The receptacle access passages through the plate are configured to fit closely about the periphery of a conventional electrical plug having generally curved opposite sides and straight, flattened top and bottom surfaces. Thus, when an electrical plug is inserted into a receptacle recess of the present plate to a depth sufficient for the prongs of the plug to contact the electrical contacts within the receptacle, the face of the plug is at least coplanar with the outer face of the safety plate, thus precluding contact of a person's fingers with the prongs of the plug when they are in contact with the electrical contacts within the receptacle. Various embodiments of covers or guards for the receptacle recesses of the present safety plate are also disclosed, with each of the guards gripping the interior walls of the receptacle recesses of the present plate to provide a secure installation as desired.
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Litman Richard C.
Reichard Dean A.
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