Quick connect device with wire cover

A device for connecting an electrical fixture with an electrical signal, and for mounting the fixture on a support, the device including

• a socket including a socket body having a plurality of ring shaped internal cavities therein;
• an electrically conductive contact terminal disposed within each of a plurality of the cavities for establishing an electrical connection between an electrical signal and the socket;
• a bore formed within the socket and including a narrowed portion;
• a plug attachable to the fixture the plug having a body including a plurality of electrical terminals accessible from an exterior of the body;
• the plug having a plurality of ring shaped electrical contacts each mateably passable through a ring shaped internal cavity of the socket and engageable with a contact terminal within the socket to establish a circuit between the electrical fixture and the electrical signal;
• the fixture electrically connectible to the plurality of ring shaped electrical contacts of the plug by connecting one or more wires of the fixture each to one of the plurality of electrical terminals of the plug;
• a spindle connected to the plug and insertable into the bore of the socket;
• a pin slideable within the spindle;
• one or more channels extending through the spindle;
• one or more retaining balls each disposed within one of the one or more channels;
• the pin cooperative with the retaining balls and channels to
• slide within the spindle to a latch position to push the one or more retaining balls radially outwards within their respective channels to engage the narrowed portion of the socket bore to retain the spindle within the socket bore, and
• slide within the spindle to an unlatched position to not push the one or more retaining balls radially outwards within their respective channels to thereby enable release of the spindle from within the socket bore;
• the device further comprising:
• an extension extending from a side of the plug body opposite to the spindle in a direction away from the body and spindle, the extension including a hollow center and a slot passing through an axially extending peripheral wall of the extension to communicate the hollow center to an exterior of the extension;
• and
• a removable cover attachable to the body of the plug, the cover sized to cover the plurality of electrical terminals of the plug, the removable cover including an extension portion extendable from a periphery of the body to the extension.