Electricity: conductors and insulators – Covers or face plates – With closure for face plate opening
Patent
1997-10-28
1999-08-03
Reichard, Dean A.
Electricity: conductors and insulators
Covers or face plates
With closure for face plate opening
220242, H05K 503
Patent
active
059328452
ABSTRACT:
There is provided an electrical outlet apparatus including a plate having a pair of openings therein which are adapted to be placed in register with a pair of adjacent wall mounted electrical receptacles. A first land surrounds the first opening and a second land surrounds the second opening. Each land includes a well therethrough which is aligned with one of the openings in the plate. The lands are dimensioned to receive a standard, preferably three-prong, plug with minimal clearance for the plug. The thickness of each land is such that the plug cannot be energized unless the exposed contacts are below the top surface of the land. One of the lands is removable from the plate so that a larger, nonstandard plug may be inserted through one of the openings without having to remove the entire apparatus from the wall; A latchable slidable cover is received over each land. When a cover is closed and latched, access to the well in the corresponding land is denied, and when the cover is opened and unlatched, access to the well in the corresponding land is permitted.
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