Electricity: conductors and insulators – Covers or face plates
Patent
1997-05-06
1999-05-04
Ramirez, Nestor
Electricity: conductors and insulators
Covers or face plates
200332, 220241, H01H 302
Patent
active
059005840
ABSTRACT:
An enlarged cover plate assembly is used with a conventional electrical wall switch having a rotatable rocker arm within a mounting bracket with threaded mounting holes with a spacing for conventional cover plates. An enlarged cover plate has an area substantially greater than the area of the wall switch and has a front surface forming a decorative surface and a back surface facing the wall switch. The cover plate further defines an aperture connecting the front and back surfaces and having a length less than the distance between the mounting holes. The enlarged cover plate is attached to the switch mounting bracket. Two flanges extend between the back surface of the enlarged cover plate and the wall switch and are oriented so that the rocker arm moves parallel with the flanges. A rocker arm extension toggle has a first actuating portion that is accessible from the front surface of the enlarged cover plate and a second engaging portion that has a cavity therein for loosely engaging the wall switch rocker arm so that the toggle moves through a greater angle than the switch rocker arm as the toggle rotates to actuate the switch rocker arm. The toggle engages the flanges to define rotation of the toggle within the enlarged plate and within the length of the aperture.
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Brady Philip O.
Cady James L.
Ramirez Nestor
Waks Joseph
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