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Auxiliary equipment enclosure unit for watthour meter sockets

  • US 4,368,943 A
  • Filed: 03/07/1980
  • Issued: 01/18/1983
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/07/1980
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An auxiliary equipment enclosure unit mountable both at a ring-type watthour meter socket having a sealing ring and at a ringless-type watthour meter socket having an enclosure cover, said enclosure unit comprising:

  • a hollow body defining a housing portion adapted to receive separate equipment devices therein; and

    an adaptive socket attachment assembly including a mounting extension extending axially from the rear end of said housing portion and having an outer periphery circumscribing an area less than the vertical cross sectional area of said housing portion with said mounting extension including a circumferential groove, said adaptive socket attachment assembly further including a resiliently expandable and removable retainer means resiliently positionable in said circumferential groove so as to be axially confined therein,said enclosure unit, when mounted to a ring-type watthour meter socket, being mounted in an abutting relationship to said ring-type watthour meter socket, with said retainer means being maintained in a predetermined radially overlapping relationship with the sealing ring of said ring-type watthour meter socket such that said sealing ring retains said enclosure unit at said ring-type meter socket,said enclosure unit, when mounted at a ringless-type meter socket having both said mounting extension and said retainer member inserted in said ringless-type watthour meter socket such that the enclosure cover thereof retains said enclosure unit at said ringless-type meter socket.

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