Safety socket
OwnerSu C. Penginventor
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Abstract
An upper and a lower body having three sockets, two on the upper portion and one on the center of the bottom face of the lower body. Each socket has a slide cover which fits into a track and which can slide back and forth to align and disalign with conductor prong holes. The slide covers each have hook-like legs which slideably secure them in slide cover leg slots. Retainers are on the inside of the upper and lower bodies to hold conductor plates in place. The prongs of a plug, when engaged with the present invention, fit through engagement slots on the slide covers and conductor prong holes to the protruberances of the conductor plate. When not in use, the slide cover can be slid to one side so as to close the passage to the conductor plate.
Claims1
An improved safety socket comprising:
- (A) an upper body with four securement legs on the lower corners thereof, said upper body having two slide cover tracks;
- each slide cover track having two conductor prong holes and two slide cover leg slots;
- (B) a lower body with a plurality of leg engagement holes for receiving the four securement legs of said upper body, said lower body having a slide cover track on a bottom center surface thereof, said slide cover track in said lower body having two conductor prong holes and two slide cover leg slots, a top surface of said lower body having two retainers;
- (C) three slide covers, two of which fit into said two slide cover tracks on said upper body and one of which fits into said slide cover track on said lower body, each of said three slide covers having engagement slots through which conductor prongs of a plug can fit, said slide covers having slide cover legs which are slidably engageable with slide cover leg slots on said upper and lower bodies, respectively;
- said three slide covers being slidably adjustable so as to be alignable and disalignable with corresponding conductor prong holes;
- (D) a two conductor conducting wire;
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- (E) two conducting plates, said two plates being respectively retained by said retainers, each of said conducting plates being electrically connected to one of said conductors of said conducting wire.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.