Electrical Fitting and Safety Cover

A method of connecting a safety cover to a socket including a front plate connected to a rear box using one or more screw-headed bolts, comprising the steps of:

• loosening, but not removing, the one or more screw-headed bolts connecting the front plate to the rear box;
• moving the front plate outward away from the rear box so that a frame included with the safety cover can be slid onto the front plate;
• sliding the frame onto the front plate so that a lip included with the frame is disposed between the front plate and the rear box;
• tightening the one or more screw-headed bolts so that the front plate is connected to the rear box with the lip from the frame gripped between the front plate and the rear box;
• and
• closing a cover panel included with the safety cover and hingedly connected to the frame like a door so that the socket is covered by and enclosed by the safety cover, the cover panel and the frame forming a flush front surface that has no protruding edges when the cover panel is in the closed position.

A method of connecting a safety cover to a socket including a front plate connected to a rear box using one or more screw-headed bolts, comprising the steps of:

• loosening, but not removing, the one or more screw-headed bolts connecting the front plate to the rear box;
• moving the front plate outward away from the rear box so that a frame included with the safety cover can be slid onto the front plate, the frame being u-shaped and including an upper portion and two side portions, the upper and two side portions forming a plate opening sized so that the front plate may be disposed therein;
• sliding the frame onto the front plate so that a lip included with the frame is disposed between the front plate and the rear box, the lip extending inward from an inner surface of a rear portion of the upper and two side portions forming the plate opening;
• and
• tightening the one or more screw-headed bolts so that the front plate is connected to the rear box with the lip from the frame gripped between the front plate and the rear box.