Device for securing electrical connectors

• US 4,666,224 A
• Filed: 06/09/1986
• Issued: 05/19/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 06/09/1986
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Thomas J. Fields
• Original Assignee: Thomas J. Fields
• Inventors: Fields, Thomas J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Weidenfeld, Gil
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bishop, Steven C.
• Application Number:
  US06/871,837
• Time in Patent Office: 344 Days
• Field of Search: 339/36, 339/37, 339/44 R, 339/44 M, 174/66, 174/67, 70/57, 70/63, 312/215
• US Class Current: 439/133
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/60 Means for supporting coupling part when not engaged
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/50 Special application

Abstract

A novel containment device for securing electrical connectors comprising a box fashioned with a slot in one face, a rotatable shelf inside said box and a door or moveable panel on one end of said box. The box is employed by inserting the plug end of an electrical appliance cord through said door and into said box, said plug being placed under said shelf with the cord passing over said shelf and out of the box through said slot. The plug is unable to exit the box due to insufficient clearance between the interior edge of the shelf and the back of the box.

Claims

1. A novel containment device for securing electrical connectors comprising a box wherein the particular features are:

a slot running substantially the entire length of one face or side of said box,

one end of said box being hinged so as to open in a direction out and away from one end of said slot, and

an interior shelf rotatably hinged or attached along the entire length of one edge of said slot.

2. A novel containment device as recited in claim 1 wherein said interior shelf is sized so as to substantially fill the sectional area of said box in the plane of the shelf when said shelf is parallel to the bottom of said box.

3. A novel containment device as recited in claim 2 wherein the rotation of said interior shelf is permitted to range between a horizontal position and a declination of approximately 25 degrees from horizontal.

4. A novel containment device as recited in claim 2 wherein the rotation of said interior shelf is permitted to range upward sufficiently to come into contact with the top of said box.

5. A novel containment device as recited in claim 3 or claim 4 wherein the interior edge of said interior shelf is covered with preformed rubberized material.