Patent Document ID: 10109944
Application ID: 15683762
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A protective guard for a wall-mounted electrical interface comprising: a baseplate to be mounted to the wall and containing at least one opening to expose the electrical interface; a cover slidably attached to the baseplate and slidably moving between a closed position that blocks access to the electrical interface and an open position that exposes the electrical interface; a spring-biased latch attached to the cover, the latch being actively spring-biased to a locked position that holds the cover in the closed position and having an unlocked position offset from the locked position which allows sliding movement of the cover to its open position to expose the electrical interface; and wherein: the latch includes a slide member; the baseplate includes a slide block that blocks the slide member when the latch is in the locked position and allows the slide member to slide past the slide block when the latch is in the unlocked position.