Safety protective cover for socket receptacles
OwnerChyong-Yen Huanginventor
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Abstract
A safety protective cover for socket receptacles includes an upper housing, a sliding base, a first elastic member, a second elastic member, and a lower housing. The upper and lower housings are provided with receptacles, respectively. The sliding base is capable of vertical and horizontal movements between the upper and lower housings, and has elastic restoring forces. The sliding base further has stopping members that can be extended into the receptacles of the housings. When the stopping members of the cover are not simultaneously pushed away from the receptacles, the other stopping member not being pushed away blocks in the receptacle to stop horizontal displacement of the sliding base, thereby prohibiting an alien object from pushing away the stopping member and entering the socket.
Claims1
A safety protective cover for socket receptacles comprising:
- an upper housing having receptacles;
- a sliding base located below the upper housing;
- and having pushing members, and stopping members at an upper side thereof for corresponding to the receptacles at the upper housing;
- a first elastic member providing the sliding base with horizontal elastic restoring forces;
- a second elastic member having elastic terminals, wherein the elastic terminals support a lower edge of a middle section of the sliding base to provide the sliding base with vertical elastic restoring forces;
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- a lower housing located below the upper housing;
- forming an interlining space with the upper housing;
- and having receptacles, and slide-guide members corresponding to the pushing members, wherein each slide-guide member further has an inclined plane for guiding sliding movements;
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- the characteristics being that, when the stopping members of the sliding base are simultaneously pushed away from the receptacles at the upper housing, the sliding base suppresses the second elastic member to move vertically in a downward direction, and at an instant that the pushing members come into contact with the slide-guide inclined planes of the slide-guide members, the sliding base continues to displace horizontally to force the stopping members out of the receptacles at the upper housing;
- when the stopping members are not simultaneously pushed away from the receptacles, the sliding base regards one of the elastic terminals of the second elastic member as a fulcrum, such that the sliding base fails to perform horizontal displacement by having other stopping member not being pushed away from the receptacle remain blocked in the receptacle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.