ELECTRICAL SOCKET APPARATUS

摘要

Electrical socket apparatus comprises a frame-shaped square front plate and a circular socket box which, in use, is set in a similarly shaped opening formed in the wall or other surface. The front plate includes fixing elements” positioned to engage complementary fixing elements present on or in an inwardly extending lip around the periphery of the open end of the socket box. The front plate is dimensioned to cover, in use, the entire periphery of the open end of the socket box. In use, the front plate is trapped between a switch and the wall surface within which the socket box is located.

主权项

1. Electrical socket apparatus comprising an open-sided socket box of rounded or circular cross section for location within a similarly shaped opening set in a wall or other surface, the socket box including at its open end an inwardly projecting annular lip formed with a plurality of fixing elements, an electrical switch socket connectable to the socket box and including a rectangular front face including sockets for receiving pins of an electric plug of an electrical appliance and a rear face from which protrude terminals for connection to mains wiring to be retained within the socket box, and a frame-shaped rectangular front plate whose length and height are greater than the length and height of the front face of the switch socket and which includes fixing elements complementary to those of the annular lip of the socket box, the front plate, in use of the apparatus, being positioned between the switch socket and the wall or other surface into which the socket box is mounted with the boundaries of the open end of the socket box and the wall or other surface opening in which the socket box is located entirely covered by the front plate.