Electrical plug and receptacle for lighting fixture power hook

Details Electrical plug and receptacle for lighting fixture power hook Electrical plug and receptacle for lighting fixture power hook

1985-07-01

1987-04-28

Dority, Jr., Carroll B.

Illumination

Plural light sources

Diverse light generators

362396, 339122F, 339120, 339 91R, H01R 3300

Patent

active

046618929

ABSTRACT:
A power hook for suspending a lighting fixture from an overhead support and for supplying power to the lighting fixture is disclosed. The power hook includes a support housing which is securable from the overhead support, with the housing having an eye and hook support arrangement on the bottom thereof for the removable attachment of a lighting fixture, such as a high pressure sodium luminaire. A power plug housing is removably securable to the support housing without the requirement of tools, and the support housing has a plug receptacle carried thereby facing toward the power plug housing when the latter is attached to the support housing. The power plug housing has a male power plug carried thereby for being received within a power receptacle carried by the support when the plug housing is secured to the support housing, and a flexible power lead is connected to the male plug and to the lighting fixture for supplying power to the lighting fixture. A female receptacle carried by the support housing, with the femal receptacle having a body of electrically insulative synthetic resin material, a pair of power leads, and a ground lead molded in place within the receptacle body. The receptacle body is so designed as to snap-fit into an aperture provided in the support housing thereby to hold the receptacle body in place.

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