ELECTRICAL RECEPTACLE WITH SAFETY COVER

• US 3,732,524 A
• Filed: 11/25/1970
• Issued: 05/08/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 11/25/1970
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Woodhead Industries Incorporated (Molex Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Alan B. Reed, George R. Eckart
• Inventors: Eckart, George R., Reed, Alan B.
• Primary Examiner(s): Moore, Richard E.
• Application Number:
  US05/092,813
• Time in Patent Office: 895 Days
• Field of Search: 339/198.2,113,269,271,196,44,36,39,116,198J,164 16/7,11,128 49/364
• US Class Current: 439/142
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 25/006 the coupling part being secured to apparatus or structure, e.g. duplex wall receptacle

Abstract

Electrical receptacle having terminal posts in a recess in the side of the receptacle body, and a hinged or removable safety cover for said recess extending across the terminal posts.

Claims

1. An electrical receptacle comprising a hollow receptacle body having an electrical plug-receiving socket member mounted therein, said socket member having openings to receive the blades or prongs of an electrical male plug, said hollow receptacle body having a side wall with a recessed portion therein, a terminal post for receiving an electrical wire and mounted in said recessed portion, a non-conducting safety plate covering said recessed portion, and hinge means pivotally mounting one end of said safety plate at one end of said recess, and a catch groove in said side wall across the other end of said recess, said groove releasably holding therein the edge of the opposite end of said safety plate whereby said plate is pivotable into and out of covering relationship with said post.

2. An electrical receptacle comprising a hollow receptacle body having an electrical plug-receiving socket member mounted therein, said socket member having openings to receive the blades or prongs of an electrical plug, said hollow receptacle body having a side wall with a recessed portion therein, a terminal post for receiving an electrical wire and mounted in said recessed portion, a non-conducting safety plate covering said recessed portion, and means movable mounting said plate on said side wall with said plate being movable into and out of covering relationship with said post, said means including hinge means hingedly mounting one end of said safety plate on said side wall and coacting latch-catch means on said side wall and on the opposite, swinging end of said safety plate, said hinge means comprising a round bead on said one end of said safety plate, said bead being rotatably seated in a round socket in said side wall.