Gte Products Corporation

Gte Sylvania Incorporated

Edward J Vibert

David A Cooper

William T Monoski

A duplex electrical receptacle providing ground fault protection and mountable in an ordinary wall outlet box and including a metal support plate formed to telescope over a container of electrical insulating material and be affixed thereto and to a wall outlet box with the container having therein a pair of bus-bar conductors of identical configuration and reversibly positioned, flexible spring-like connectors coupling a power source to the bus-bar conductors, a plugable printed circuit board with associated electrical circuitry and components for detecting a ground fault condition, and a re-set guide assembly responsive to the circuitry of the printed circuit board for effecting connection and disconnection of a power source and the bus bar conductors of the receptacle.

Ground fault receptacle reversible conductors

Ground fault receptacle re-set guide assembly

Ground fault receptacle

A fail-safe ground fault receptacle circuit includes a ground fault circuit interrupter inductively coupled to a load, directly coupled to one potential source terminal, and coupled by way of a series connected solenoid winding and contacts of a circuit breaker shunted by a series connected impedance and indicating lamp to another potential source terminal whereby manually closing the circuit breaker causes current flow through the solenoid winding shunting the indicator lamp and preventing activation thereof and excessive current flow through the solenoid winding opens the circuit breaker to cause current flow through and activation of the indicating lamp.

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Muncy, PA, United States of America

Edward J Vibert