Support-foot and cord-retainer
AssigneeThe Buckeye Stamping Company
InventorClyde K. Storer
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Abstract
A foot for use, for example, on cases for electrical instruments or appliances which is formed to not only support the case but also, when used in a combination of two or more, to provide retainers on which the electrical cord can be wrapped. In addition, the foot is formed with a socket arrangement for receiving and retaining the plug on the cord, regardless of whether the plug is of the two-prong or three-prong type.
Claims6
A retainer member for an electrical cord or the like comprising a body having opposed ends, an outer face adapted to be exposed and an inner face adapted to be engaged with a support surface, and surfaces which extend between the respective faces and ends of the body which extends from one face to the other at opposite sides of a centerline of the body;
- a cord-retainer flange projecting from said body at the outer face thereof and from one end thereof, a prong-receiving socket formed in said body and opening outwardly at a prong-receiving end of said body opposite to the end where said cord-retainer flange is formed, and a pair of prong-receiving sockets formed in said body in cooperative relationship with said first socket and opening at the same prong-receiving end of said body;
- said first prong-receiving socket being formed by a slot having an end opening at the said prong-receiving end of said body and a side opening at said outer face of the body and having a centerline in a common plane with that of the body, said pair of prong-receiving sockets being formed by recesses in the respective side surfaces of the body that are parallel to each other and to the centerline of the body and which open to the said prong-receiving end and the said inner face of the body.
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