Rectifier housing for use between a line cord and a wall outlet

A rectifier housing for connecting a lamp cord plug to a source of electrical energy, said housing comprising:

• (a) a plug formed from non-conductive material and defining an enclosure, said plug having a plurality of electrically conductive contact blades extending outwardly from a first face of said enclosure for engaging blade-receiving slots in an electric outlet;
• (b) a receptacle received in and carried by said enclosure and having blade-receiving slots for receiving blades of said lamp cord plug, said blade-receiving slots provided in a face of said receptacle that defines a second face of said housing on a side of said housing opposite to said first face;
• (c) a plurality of conductor means positioned within said enclosure for providing electrical contact between said contact blades in said plug and contact blades positioned into respective ones of said blade-receiving slots in said receptacle;
• (d) rectifier means for rectifying electric energy carried by one of said conductor means, said rectifier means positioned within said enclosure and between one of said contact blades in said plug and one of said blade-receiving slots in said receptacle, said rectifier means being a part of said one of said conductor means for providing rectified electric energy to said lamp cord plug;
• and wherein said receptacle includes a center terminal in electrical contact with one of a pair of contact members positioned within said blade-receiving slots, and said rectifier means includes a substantially disc-shaped rectifier housing of non-conductive material adapted to be received transversely in said enclosure, and a rectifier element carried by said rectifier housing and contacting said center terminal and in electrical contact with one of said contact blades.