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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 1981
Filed:
Apr. 27, 1979
David A Cooper, Loganton, PA (US);
William T Monoski, Muncy, PA (US);
Edward J Vibert, Muncy, PA (US);
GTE Products Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
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.