Electrical safety receptacle

Details Electrical safety receptacle Electrical safety receptacle

1992-10-16

1993-11-16

Echols, P. W.

Electrical connectors

With selectable circuit, e.g., plug board

Coupling part including repositionable contact

439535, 200 5111, 200 5112, H01R 2900, H01R 1940, H01R 3396

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052618250

ABSTRACT:
An electrical outlet receptacle adapted to be plugged into a conventional wall socket includes a circuit interrupting switch in the form of a bar or rod axially extending from the receptacle housing and being movable between first and second positions. The receptacle includes a pair of blade contacts engageable with the receptacle of a wall socket which blade contacts have a gap situated therein in such a manner as to orthogonally engage in a slidable fashion the axially movable bar. The latter, in turn, carries a pair of contacts adapted to bridge the gap in the switch blades depending upon the axial position of the bar. Thus, in the first position of the bar, the contacts do not bridge the gaps in the blade contacts whereas in the second position of the bar the contacts do bridge the gaps in the blade contacts thereby permitting an appliance plugged into the safety receptacle to draw electrical power from the wall socket.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3942856 (1976-03-01), Minheim et al.
patent: 4484185 (1984-11-01), Graves
patent: 5071360 (1991-12-01), Lindow et al.

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