Abstract: A system for protecting an input device. The system includes a pressurizing device and a printed circuit board having a false key. The pressurizing device includes a tube for receiving a flexible pressurizing element. A spacer of a predetermined length is disposed at a bottom of the tube.

Abstract: An effects control module for a musical instrument has a housing and a battery enclosure assembly rotatably coupled to the housing. The battery enclosure assembly includes a door with a magnetic plate attractive to a surface of the housing to enable final closure of the battery enclosure assembly with respect to the housing absent external force. No external human force is needed to enable and complete final closure of the battery enclosure assembly with respect to the housing after the critical magnetic position of the door. The battery enclosure assembly is disposed on a first side surface of the housing with a battery area and latch configured to contain a battery. A material is disposed on the door to soften the closure. A second side surface of the housing includes a paramagnetic material to provide substantially no magnetic influence from the second side surface of the housing.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and methods for securing a box cover to a watt-hour meter box base. In certain embodiments, the apparatus consists of a unitary member incorporating a plurality of flange members adapted for securing at least a portion of a top of a watthour meter box lid to a portion of a top front flange of a watthour meter box base. In various other embodiments, the unitary member consists of a unitary member adapted to engage a portion of a meter box lid. In various other embodiments, the member includes integrated opposed tension-receiving members.

Abstract: Various embodiments for electrical receptacle protective enclosures (“ERPE”) are disclosed. The ERPE includes an enclosure configured to be demountably affixed to an electrical receptacle. The enclosure includes a main body and covering rotatably coupled to the main body and having locking arms extending therefrom. The enclosure includes “closed,” “open,” “locked,” and “unlocked” states. The main body includes a mechanical fastening assembly positioned near apertures and configured to rotate in a common plane with a wall of the main body. The locking element comprises an indentation and a plate region positioned opposite the indentation. In the unlocked state, the indentation is aligned with the aperture and allows the locking arm to traverse the indentation and the protrusion to engage the aperture. In the locked state, the plate region is aligned with the aperture and restricts the locking arm from traversing the indentation and the protrusion from disengaging the aperture.

Abstract: An electrical switching apparatus housing assembly for an electrical switching apparatus assembly is provided. The electrical switching apparatus housing assembly including a body assembly and a movable door member. The body assembly includes a number of outer sidewalls. The outer sidewalls define an enclosed space. The outer sidewalls include a top sidewall. The top sidewall includes a limited opening to the enclosed space. The movable door member is movably coupled to the top sidewall. The door member is movable between an open, first position, wherein the door member is not disposed in the limited opening, and a closed, second position, wherein the door member is disposed in the limited opening.

Abstract: An improved cover assembly for use with an electrical switching apparatus can be said to comprise a retention device that is structured to be disposed on the electrical switching apparatus and a cover that comprises an engagement element and that is disposed on the retention device. The cover is translatable between a first configuration and a second configuration and is configured such that a locking element will resist movement of the cover toward the second configuration. In the first configuration, the engagement element and the retention device confront one another to resist movement of the cover away from the electrical switching apparatus. However, in the second configuration, the engagement element and the retention device are clear of one another and enable the cover to be pivoted away from the electrical switching apparatus to provide access to the control elements of the switching apparatus.

Abstract: A lighting device in the form of a handheld flashlight includes a plurality of light sources, a housing, a three-position switch, and a second switch. The plurality of light sources may include a visible light source and a non-visible light source. The three-position switch selects one of a plurality of modes, for example, a visible light enabled mode, an infrared mode, and a lockout mode. The second switch is operative to control one of the plurality of light sources based on the selected operating mode.

Abstract: An improved cover assembly for use with an electrical switching apparatus can be said to comprise a retention device that is structured to be disposed on the electrical switching apparatus and a cover that comprises an engagement element and that is disposed on the retention device. The cover is translatable between a first configuration and a second configuration and is configured such that a locking element will resist movement of the cover toward the second configuration. In the first configuration, the engagement element and the retention device confront one another to resist movement of the cover away from the electrical switching apparatus. However, in the second configuration, the engagement element and the retention device are clear of one another and enable the cover to be pivoted away from the electrical switching apparatus to provide access to the control elements of the switching apparatus.

Abstract: An electrical panel lockout that locks the electrical panel door closed and prevents the panel cover from being removed. Two telescoping hollow tubes extend between two panel screws. Two slots in the ends of the hollow tubes slide under the screw heads of each of the loosened panel screws. The outer hollow tube and inner hollow tube extend across the panel door keeping it locked closed. The shackle of a padlock is inserted into one of the openings of the inner hollow tube to keep the device locked in the extended position onto the panel screws. The screw heads are encapsulated by the device rendering them inaccessible and preventing the electrical panel cover from being removed. Hollow tube extension fittings can be employed to increase the length of the device for use on electrical panels of larger widths. A guide screw attached to the inner hollow tube rides in a slot in the outer hollow tube to keep both tubes from separating.

Abstract: A lockout device is provided for an operable instrument mounted to a structure with a first set of fasteners. The lockout device includes a base member having first and second side walls, an opening disposed between the side walls, a lock tab, and at least one mounting plate removably attached to the first and second side walls. The opening receives the instrument when the base member is mounted to the structure. The lock tab includes an aperture for receiving a locking member. The mounting plate includes a mounting feature for receiving a portion of one of the first set of fasteners to mount the base member to the structure. The lockout device further includes a cover member attachable to the base member and movable between a lockout position and an open position. The cover member includes an outer portion for covering the instrument when the base member is mounted to the structure and the cover member is in the lockout position.

Abstract: A switch device for assembly with a fastener securing an access cover to a high voltage storage device includes a switch connector device connectable to a shroud. The switch connector includes a flange with a bolt hole through which a fastener passes and a first connector having a shorting bar. The shroud includes a second connector with first and second wire cables, mateable to the first connector. The switch device has open and closed positions. In closed position, the shroud is mated to the switch connector device, and conducts electrical signals between the first and second wire cables. The shroud substantially completely obstructs operative access to the fastener. In open position, the shroud is sufficiently unmated from the switch connector device to permit operative tool access to the fastener. The first connector is disconnected from the second connector when in the open position.

Abstract: An enclosure restricts access to control buttons of an overhead crane pendant. The enclosure has sidewalls, a top piece, a back piece and a bottom piece. A hinged portion of the enclosure carries a door with an aperture. An appropriate blocking plate is slid into position behind the aperture, thereby blocking the appropriate control buttons, but allowing the other control buttons to remain accessible through the aperture. The lockout box is lockable, and once locked the blocking plates are not movable.

Abstract: A switch deactivation device includes a coil portion having a number of coils. The coils are configured to couple to a portion of a vehicle door switch, such as a plunger shaft or a mounting flange. The coils may be coupled to the portion of the switch by adjusting an internal diameter of the coils. The device also includes a plunger-engaging portion configured to depress a plunger of the vehicle door switch while the device is coupled to the switch.

Abstract: A saw switch box includes a supporting base resting on a switch platform, a switch shelter pivotally connected to the supporting base to define a sheltering cavity between the switch shelter and the supporting base for receiving a switch member, and a locking device for locking the switch shelter on the supporting base at the idle position. In which, at an operation position, the switch shelter is pivotally folded to a position that a contacting side of the switch shelter is adapted for contacting with the switch member to protectively shelter the switch member within the sheltering cavity in position while the saw machine is operating, and at the idle position, an operation side of the switch shelter is pressed to force the contacting side thereof for pivotally pressing the switch member downward to switch off the saw machine.

Abstract: A security device for electrical cords is disclosed, including a housing having a base and a plurality of side members, an electrical output operatively engaged to a support, the support integrally connected to the housing, an electrical input operatively engaged to the housing and electrically connected to the electrical output, a plurality of securement grooves for securing at least one slidable plate, a switch having a first position and a second position to control electrical flow between the electrical input and the electrical output, and a lock member to selectively lock the switch into one of the first position or said second position.

Abstract: A security device for electrical cords is disclosed, including a housing having a base and a plurality of side members, an electrical output operatively engaged to a support, the support integrally connected to the housing, an electrical input operatively engaged to the housing and electrically connected to the electrical output, a plurality of securement grooves for securing at least one slidable plate, a switch having a first position and a second position to control electrical flow between the electrical input and the electrical output, and a lock member to selectively lock the switch into one of the first position or said second position.

Abstract: A circuit breaker mechanical interlock apparatus is provided for preventing an electrical system from being energized by more than one of a plurality of power sources at any given time. The apparatus includes a housing that defines a receptacle for receiving two or more circuit breakers having actuating switches for energizing the electrical system. The apparatus further includes one or more interlock slides movably mounted on the housing and a faceplate for restricting unauthorized access to the slides. The number of interlock slides is one fewer than the number of circuit breakers so that the slides can be positioned to provide access to only one of the switches of the circuit breakers, while the remaining switches of the circuit breakers cannot be accessed. Each of the switches of the circuit breakers can be individually accessed without the slides extending beyond the periphery of the housing.

Abstract: A power transfer arrangement is provided for supplying power from a generator the electrical system of a building. The power transfer arrangement includes a power transfer switching mechanism adapted for interconnection with the building electrical system. The power transfer switching mechanism includes a cabinet having panel structure provided with various electrical components for transferring power to various load circuits. A transparent cover assembly is movably mounted to the cabinet for selectively preventing and permitting access to the electrical component and the front panel while simultaneously allowing constant visual monitoring of the components of the panel structure.

Abstract: A cover is provided for a control switch in a vehicle that is movable between open and closed positions. In the cover open position, the switch paddle is freely accessible. In the cover closed position, the switch paddle is partially covered to limit access to the paddle and alert the operator to thereby avoid unintended actuation of the switch. In the closed position, the paddle is still accessible if needed to actuate the switch in an emergency without first opening the cover.

Abstract: A housing, in particular for electric switchgear and control gear, includes a first housing part and a second housing part to be detachably attached to the former. The housing also includes a lock whose at least one blocking element is movable in a displacement direction from an open position into a closed position by an operating slide connected to it, with the first housing part having at least one element engageable in a recess in the second housing part in the closed position, with a seating face arranged parallel to the displacement direction, and a section of the blocking element being in contact with the seating face on a side of the recess opposite the operating slide.