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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 1997
Filed:
Jan. 19, 1995
H Richard Beck, Moon Township, PA (US);
Kenneth M Fischer, Union Township, PA (US);
Eaton Corporation, Cleveland, OH (US);
Abstract
A cover for a communications port and an aperture at a surface of an electrical switching device includes a cover mechanism for covering at least the communications port and the aperture; and a plug having a proximate end attached to the cover mechanism and having a distal end for insertion within a recess of the communications port. Alternatively, an electrical switching device comprises separable contacts; a housing for the separable contacts including a surface having an aperture and a communications port with a recess; a cover mechanism for covering at least the communications port and the aperture; and a plug having a proximate end attached to the cover mechanism and having a distal end for insertion within the recess of the communications port.