Tool for disengaging electrical coupling
OwnerRaymond Pruittinventor
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Abstract
The present invention is a mechanical tool for disengaging an electrical plug from an electrical socket when the socket is provided with a cap and a retention tab which engages and retains the plug in place. The tool includes a handle portion and a grasping portion with the grasping portion having spaced apart legs and perpendicular stems. The legs of the grasping element are passed on either side of the plug and a skirt provided on either leg engages and moves upward the cap on the socket to disengage the socket tab from the plug. The plug can then be removed from the socket by forcibly levering the tool against the socket to extract the plug therefrom.
Claims5
A tool for use in disengaging an electrical coupling of an over-the-road truck by engaging and unlocking a simple retention member, the tool compromising:
- an elongate rigid handle,
- a handle grip element secured to one end of the handle,
- a substantially U-shaped member rigidly attached to the handle opposite the grip element,
- said U-shaped member further comprising:
- a first leg and spaced apart second leg having a bight there between, and
- the first leg and second leg having stem portions, and
- wherein the stem portions are oriented generally perpendicular to the first leg and second leg of the U-shaped member, and
- wherein the first leg and second leg each have inwardly projecting skirts which span between a point substantially adjacent the bight and the stem portion of each arm and further wherein said U-shaped member is used to engage an electrical coupling such that the U-shaped member is passed between the male portion and female portion of an electrical coupling and rotated about its longitudinal axis so that the inwardly projecting portion engages and lifts a cap portion of the female coupling to disengage a downwardly projecting tab from an upward oriented projection mounted to the male coupling and wherein forcible lateral movement of the tool forcibly removes the male coupling from the female coupling.
A tool for disengaging an electrical coupling comprising:
- an elongated body having a handle fixed perpendicularly thereto at a first end, and
- a grasping element fixed at a second end;
- the grasping element further comprising:
- a U-shaped member with opposing legs and a bight therebetween,
- the left leg including a perpendicularly mounted left stem and a right leg including a perpendicularly mounted right stem, and
- wherein said tool is positioned to the electrical plug such that the plug is positioned between the left leg and right leg with the left stem and right stem engaging a surface on the socket such that outward levering of the tool against the surface of the socket forcibly withdraws the plug from the socket.
A tool for disengaging an electrical plug from a socket comprising:
- a handle fixed perpendicularly to an elongated body, and
- a grasping element fixed to the elongated body distal the handle, the grasping element further comprising:
- a left leg and a spaced apart right leg with a bight therebetween, the left leg having a perpendicularly mounted stem and the right leg having a perpendicularly mounted stem,
- a left skirt fixed to the left leg and oriented generally inward toward the bight,
- a right skirt mounted to the right leg and oriented generally inward toward the bight, the left skirt having a perpendicularly mounted stem, and
- the right skirt having a perpendicularly mounted stem.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.