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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2006
Filed:
Nov. 23, 2004
Kimberly R. Gerard, Concordia, KS (US);
Kimberly R. Gerard, Concordia, KS (US);
Abstract
A reorientable electrical outlet having a housing cavity in a stationary housing and a rotatable electrical female receptacle seated therein is disclosed. Preferably, the rotatable female electrical receptacle includes a set of electrical conductors situated in electrical isolation from one another, arranged one above the other. In one embodiment, the housing cavity has a set of annular conductive structures formed one above the other to support provide a set of electrically conductive pathways along which slideable contacts rotateably track. Another embodiment places annular conductive structures on the female receptacle. Such structures slideably track on fixed contacts in the housing cavity.