Electricity: conductors and insulators – Boxes and housings – With electrical device
Patent
1996-09-12
1998-03-03
Kincaid, Kristine L.
Electricity: conductors and insulators
Boxes and housings
With electrical device
174 57, 174135, H01H 902
Patent
active
057238154
ABSTRACT:
A wall mounted extendible and retractable electrical extension cord has an enclosed housing having a rear wall and a front wall parallel to the rear wall, the front wall having at least one aperture therein and the housing being secured to a wall of a building; an electrical extension cord having a predetermined length and an electrical connector on one end thereof, a portion of the electrical extension cord adjacent the one end thereof extending through the one aperture; a reel disposed within the housing between and parallel to the rear wall and the front wall to store the electrical extension cord thereon; an electrical power source coupled to the housing having at least a power terminal and a neutral terminal; and a mechanism disposed within the housing coupled to the reel, the electrical extension cord and the electrical power source to couple electrical power to the electrical extension cord, to enable pulling the electrical extension cord from the reel by the one end to a desirable length for use, to lock the reel when the electrical extension cord is at a desirable length, and to automatically retract the electrical extension cord back onto the reel after terminating the use thereof.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2510745 (1950-06-01), Kilgore
patent: 3852514 (1974-12-01), Lauben
patent: 4114736 (1978-09-01), Scherenberg
patent: 4467979 (1984-08-01), Koehler
patent: 4969610 (1990-11-01), Taylor et al.
Hill Alfred C.
Kincaid Kristine L.
Patel Dhiru R.
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