TAMPER RESISTANT RECEPTACLE

摘要

A tamper resistant electrical receptacle comprising a slide housing disposed beneath the hot and neutral blade openings in the receptacle. The slide housing includes a neutral slide body and a hot slide body having slide pads and tabs for reducing friction when the bodies slide against each other as the spring bias of the bodies in the slide housing is overcome by simultaneous insertion of the tines of an electrical plug contact ramp surfaces and camming past the slide bodies causing them to slide against each other and spreading a gap area a distance sufficient for receiving the lateral neutral prong of a 20 A electrical plug.

主权项

1. A tamper resistant receptacle comprising:
an electrical outlet housing including a faceplate defining an outlet, said outlet including a horizontally extending hot blade opening and a laterally extending hot blade opening; a slider assembly disposed beneath said faceplate and including a slider housing, a neutral blade slide body, a hot blade slide body, and a central spring, said slider housing defining a second hot plug blade opening and a second neutral plug blade; said slider housing configured as a unitary piece of plastic sized and shaped to fit within a footprint of an electrical receptacle and having a central planar portion surrounded by an ascending perimetrical sidewall of a height sufficient to house the slider assembly and rest flush with the faceplate of said electrical outlet housing.