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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 12, 2001
James K Bentley, Paso Robles, CA (US);
Richard G Davidson, Atascadero, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A lockable wall outlet electrical receptacle having a housing with a pair of vertically spaced electrical plug aperture set formed in its front wall surface. The housing would be made of a plastic material that is electrically nonconductive. There are chambers and channels in the structure of the housing for receiving the left blade prong terminal, the right blade prong terminal and the ground prong terminal for each of the respective sets electrical plug apertures. The rear end of the respective prong terminals are electrically connected to electrical wire connection terminals on the outer surface of the housing. An upper and a lower shaft have their front ends extending outwardly from the left side wall surface of the housing. The shafts have structure formed in their peripheral surface that allows a predetermined number of degrees of rotation to lock the blade prongs of a male electrical plug in the wall outlet receptacle after they have been inserted into the electrical plug apertures. A mechanical structure having a lever arm for actuation connects the respective upper and lower shaft members so that they would be rotated at the same time.