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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2008
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2007
Gerd Schmieta, Boston, MA (US);
Michael Meyer, Boston, MA (US);
Dennis A. Oddsen, Eatons Neck, NY (US);
Anthony Tufano, North Massapequa, NY (US);
Leslie Lindenstraus, New York, NY (US);
James J. Sherman, Jericho, NY (US);
Tim Langfit, Nappa, CA (US);
Gerd Schmieta, Boston, MA (US);
Michael Meyer, Boston, MA (US);
Dennis A. Oddsen, Eatons Neck, NY (US);
Anthony Tufano, North Massapequa, NY (US);
Leslie Lindenstraus, New York, NY (US);
James J. Sherman, Jericho, NY (US);
Tim Langfit, Nappa, CA (US);
Leviton Manufacturing Co., Inc., Little Neck, NY (US);
Abstract
There is disclosed a wall plate for a wiring device. The wall plate has a single opening for receiving one or a gang of two or more wiring devices within the single opening. The wall plate has along its vertical axis, a surface of positive first differential and zero second differential, including a combination of splines drawn between points of varying distance from a datum plane. The surface has zero second differential when the rate of height increase of individual splines is constant. The wall plate, when composed of non-conducting material, has a conductive coating on its front surface, on its back surface or on both its front and back surfaces. When the wiring device is a switch, the surface of the switch face follows that of the wall plate. When the wiring device is a receptacle, the surface along the receptacle face is flat in one plane to allow for the proper seating of an inserted plug.