Electricity: conductors and insulators – Covers or face plates – With closure for face plate opening
Patent
1993-12-13
1995-09-12
Picard, Leo P.
Electricity: conductors and insulators
Covers or face plates
With closure for face plate opening
439137, 439145, H01R 13453
Patent
active
054498600
ABSTRACT:
A safety plate assembly for use with a conventional electric outlet of the type adapted to be fitted in a panel opening and including an outlet box and an outlet mounted in the box and including a receptacle defining a pair of sockets receiving the prongs of an electric plug. The assembly includes an annular mounting plate of open frame configuration positioned against the panel in surrounding relation to the opening and a cover plate positioned over the mounting plate and lockingly secured thereto by resilient tabs on the mounting plate snappingly coacting with protrusions on the cover plate. A slide is mounted on the cover plate for movement between a safety position in which slide apertures overlie solid portions of the cover plate and an operative position in which the slide apertures are aligned with open areas of the cover plate and with the sockets of the receptacle so as to allow the prongs of the electric plug to be passed through the slide apertures and through the open areas of the cover plate for insertion in the receptacle sockets. The slide includes a shutter portion overlying the front face of the cover plate, a guide portion coacting with the rear face of the cover plate, and a juncture portion passing through an opening in the cover plate. The guide portion of the slide also coacts with the front face of the mounting plate to further facilitate the sliding movement of the slide.
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Buckshaw Dennis J.
Clark James A.
Picard Leo P.
Tone David
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