Two-piece wall plate for electrical device

Details Two-piece wall plate for electrical device Two-piece wall plate for electrical device

1990-08-16

1991-12-17

Broome, Harold

Electricity: conductors and insulators

Covers or face plates

H02G 314

Patent

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050736817

ABSTRACT:
A two-piece wall plate for use with a wall mounted receptacle, switch or other wiring device. A first, frame-like base plate is secured by screws to the mounting ears of the wiring device, and a second, frame-like cover plate is releasably connected to the base plate, in covering relation thereto. A bezel portion of the base plate closely surrounds the periphery of one or more wiring devices mounted in the usual way in a conventional wall box, and extends through a central opening in the cover plate. The cover plate is mounted on the base plate by a snap fit connection provided by elongated grooves in the outwardly facing side surface of the bezel which receive elongated ridges extending inwardly about the boundary of the central opening in the cover plate.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3011008 (1961-11-01), Slater
patent: 3197549 (1965-07-01), Good
patent: 4833277 (1989-05-01), Jacoby et al.
patent: 4835343 (1989-05-01), Graef et al.

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