Patent ID: 7170417
Filing Date: 2007-01-30
Classification: G08B

Abstract:
1. A decorative cover for sensing devices, such as smoke detectors, and mounted on a wall or ceiling comprising, a cover member consisting of a generally planer sheet of essentially opaque material of approximately the shape of the device it is covering and somewhat larger than the sensing device to be covered, the outer surface of which cover is capable of being selectively colored, patterned or decorated or left for decoration by a decorator or advertizer, a plurality of resilient connector legs affixed to the inner side of the cover and extending toward the device to be covered, there being multiple sets of legs, the legs of each set are spaced and configured to fit different sizes of sensing device of the same general configuration, with legs for smaller configurations being within larger configurations, whereby, in a particular use, the unused legs that interfere with that use are able to be cut or broken off the decorative cover to avoid interference with placement of the decorative cover over the selected sensing device, in a pattern positioned to engage and deflect against selected distributed points of engagement on the sensing device, and cam surfaces at the free ends of the resilient legs positioned to be the surface of engagement and arranged to laterally deflect the respective legs when they contact and are moved against the distributed points of engagement so that frictional forces imposed by the resilience of the legs while deflected are directed to maintain frictional engagement at the respective points of engagement on the device to be covered due to the collective opposed forces of the distributed legs on the engagement points.