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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 1989
Filed:
Aug. 01, 1988
John J Gizienski, Coventry, RI (US);
Stephen P Short, Johnston, RI (US);
Robert J Mellen, North Kingstown, RI (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
An electrical power tap is provided with at least one shutter mechanism to block spurious insertion of a foreign object through one blade slot short of the power circuit contacts of an adjacent pair of plug receptacles. This mechanism includes a pair slides supported for independent movement between closed-latched and open positions. Access to the contacts of either power tap plug receptacle requires that its slide first be unlatched by a blade penetrating one slot and then cammed to the open position by another blade penetrating the other slot, as occurs incident to the insertion of a standard electrical plug.