Patent ID: 8324500

Claim:
A safety cap designed to cover an exterior-facing side of an electrical outlet immediately surrounding contact holes of the electrical outlet, the safety cap comprising: a non-conductive disk having an interior-facing side for facing the electrical outlet, an exterior-facing side for facing away from the electrical outlet, the interior-facing side of the disk having a sufficient area to cover the exterior-facing side of the electrical outlet; a plurality of non-conductive prongs protruding away from the interior-facing side of the disk and sized shaped to fit within the contact holes of the electrical outlet; and one or more keyholes on the interior-facing side of the disk, and being sized and shaped to allow a prong-sized projection of a device to be slidably inserted into one of the keyholes between the interior-facing side of the disk and the exterior-facing side of the electrical outlet so that the safety cap can be pulled away from the electrical outlet when the safety cap is inserted into the electrical outlet such that the interior-facing side of the disk is next to the exterior-facing side of the electrical outlet.