Patent ID: 7887349

Claim:
A safety electric outlet receiving an electrical plug having a first live standard sized plug blade and second neutral standard sized plug blade, comprising: an outlet housing having at least two slots permitting the admission of the first and the second plug blade; a live side power supply coupled to the outlet; a neutral side of the outlet; a first of an at least four sets of contacts coupled to the live side power supply and in a normally open state and supported on a first of an at least two live side levers; a second of an at least four sets of contacts coupled to the live side through the first set of an at least four sets of contacts and coupled to the neutral side of the circuit and in a normally open state supported on a second of an at least two live side levers; a third of an at least four sets of contacts coupled to the second of the at least four sets contacts and to the neutral side of the circuit and in a normally open state on a first of an at least two neutral side levers; and a fourth of an at least four sets of contacts coupled to the third set of at least four pairs of contacts and thereby coupling the third set of contacts to neutral, the fourth set of an at least four sets of contacts in a normally open state and supported on a second of an at least two neutral side levers, wherein the insertion of the live standard sized plug prong when it is admitted into the outlet housing engages the first and second of the at least two live side of levers and couples the first and second of the at least four sets of contacts to couple the powers supply on the live side of the circuit to neutral and the admission of the neutral standard sized plug prong into the outlet housing then engages the first and second of the at least two neutral side levers to engage the third and fourth of the at least four sets of contacts coupled to the neutral side of the circuit and complete the circuit and failure to admit a standard sized plug blade on either the live or neutral side of the outlet would result in a failure to complete the circuit and couple the respective side to neutral.