Patent ID: 7273984

Claim:
An outdoor electrical cord connection protector comprising; a pair of mated covers having a length and width such that said covers are hinged along the length of said covers via an integrally-molded hinge of the same thickness as said mated covers; wherein one of said covers has a female lock channel that extends around the perimeter of said cover; wherein the other of said covers has a corresponding male lock channel such that folding the two covers together along said hinge locks the male lock channel into the female lock channel, such that said hinged covers, when locked together, provides an entrance and exit centered along the width of said covers; a seal that can be affixed to said wire entrance and said wire exit; and such that said hinged covers also provides a recess adapted to hold at least two mated plugs of an outdoor string of lights, protecting the plugs that are placed in said protector from the external environment.