Patents Examined by Terrell Lewis
  • Patent number: 3977746
    Abstract: An electric outlet device has spaced contacts for a pronged plug within a housing which are located in a plane at right angles to a threaded plug depending from the housing. A socket is provided above the spaced contacts into which the threaded end of a lamp bulb may be screwed. The threaded base and socket are interconnected by conductors between the terminals and between the threaded elements each of which is connected to one of the contacts. Two like halves of a housing are joined together about the threaded socket and the two spaced contacts and adhered together and to the top of the threaded plug to form the outlet device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1973
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1976
    Inventor: Paul F. Seibold