Electricity: conductors and insulators – Covers or face plates – With closure for face plate opening
Patent
1986-06-16
1988-04-26
Grimley, Arthur T.
Electricity: conductors and insulators
Covers or face plates
With closure for face plate opening
220242, 220324, H05K 503
Patent
active
047406550
ABSTRACT:
Electrical receptacle safety covering means and method, to protect persons too young to appreciate the hazards of electricity from access to the outlets of electrical receptacles by requiring skills of an older child or adult to uncover such a receptacle. Spring-biased security is provided in which an action separate from closing a cover over an electrical receptacle is required to latch the cover, and unlatching it can not be accomplished by pulling on the cover in its opening direction but necessitates overcoming a latching spring-bias in a separate preliminary unlatching step. A combination of a receptacle plate (more or less flush with the receptacle) and a cover for the front thereof has at least one spring and a cooperating slide adapted to move relative thereto between a latched position free of spring bias and an unlatched position subject to spring bias. Preferably the cover carries a pair of such slides and springs, and the plate has grooved flanges engaged by the slides only in the latched position.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2916733 (1959-12-01), Hirsch
patent: 2963734 (1960-12-01), Hugat
patent: 4048051 (1977-09-01), Gretz
patent: 4508933 (1985-04-01), Carvel
Grimley Arthur T.
McClure Charles A.
Tone David A.
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