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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 1992
Filed:
Aug. 28, 1991
Ali El-Haj, Bridgeport, CT (US);
Casco Products Corporation, Bridgeport, CT (US);
Abstract
An electrical accessory plug for insertion in the socket of an automobile cigar lighter receptacle of the type provided with a grounded shell and live resilient clip contact fingers which have a rigid mounting. The plug has electrical conductor strips for connection to an electrical cord, and has at its inner end a retainer shoulder adapted to engage and to be frictionally embraced and retained by the live clip contact fingers of the cigar lighter receptacle. A spring-biased contact plunger at the inner end of the plug is connected to one of conductor strips. The plunger is adapted for abutting engagement under spring pressure, with the rigid mounting of the contact fingers of the cigar lighter receptacle when the plug body is positioned deeply in the receptacle.