Shaped wall plate for wiring device

Details Shaped wall plate for wiring device Shaped wall plate for wiring device

2007-07-17

2007-07-17

Patel, Dhiru R. (Department: 2831)

Electricity: conductors and insulators

Covers or face plates

C174S067000, C220S241000

Reexamination Certificate

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11345454

ABSTRACT:
There is disclosed a wall plate for a winning device. The wall plate has a single opening for receiving one or a gang of two or more wiring devices within the single opening. The wall plate has a long its vertical axis, a surface of positive first differential and zero second differential, comprised of a combination of splines drawn between points of varying distance from a datum plane. The surface has zero second differential when the rate of height increase of individual splines is constant. The wall plate, when composed of non-conducting material, has a conductive coating on its front surface, on its back surface or on both its front and back surfaces. When the wiring device is a switch, the surface of the switch face follows that of the wall plate. When the wiring device is a receptacle, the surface along the receptacle face is flat in one plane to allow for the proper seating of an inserted plug.

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