Protective cover for outlet
OwnerMing-chin Weiinventor
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Abstract
A protective cover for an electricity supply outlet provides a body, a peg slidingly retained in the body, a spring urging against the peg, a disk fixedly secured to the body to retain the spring therein and a pair of spaced apart tongues insertable into passages of the electrical supply outlet. The protective cover has a smooth non-graspable periphery. The peg is rotatable from a first position where a top end thereof is flush with a top face of the body to a second position where it partially extends beyond the top face of the body thereby permitting access to a slot defined in the peg such that a pin of an electrical appliance plug may be inserted therein to remove the protective cover from the electricity supply outlet without the use of extra or specialized tools.
Claims19
A protective cover for electrically insulating and mechanically concealing hot slots of an electrical supply outlet comprising:
- a body having a top surface, a bottom surface of a sufficient dimension to cover the hot slots, and a hole provided through the top surface;
- a plurality of tongues extending from said bottom surface for inserting into the hot slots of the electrical supply outlet;
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- means received in the hole for removing said body from said electrical supply outlet;
- wherein said hole is a through-hole for disposing said removing means from a bottom of the through-hole and said removing means comprises a peg slidably retained within the through-hole and a spring for urging said peg to protrude from the top surface of the body, the body being removable via a protruded portion of the peg.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.