Electrical plug lock apparatus

DETAILED DESCRIPTION Briefly stated, the electrical plug lock apparatus that forms the basis of the present invention comprises in general: a housing unit, and a locking unit which is associated with the housing unit such that the locking unit may be brought into engagement with the rear of an electrical plug member while the face of the plug member is in an abutting relationship with the housing unit.
The locking unit comprises in general: a key actuated lock member that cooperates with a bifurcated capture member, wherein the lock member is disposed within the housnng, and the capture member is disposed in a reciprocating relationship relative to the housing member.
This selectively reciprocating relationship between the capture member and the housing unit allows an electrical plug member to matingly engage with suitably dimensioned socket apertures in the housing unit by virtue of an outward translation or extension of the capture member; whereupon, an inward translation or retraction of the capture member will bring the capture member into engagement with the rear of the electrical plug member.
Actuation of the key actuated lock member will then secure the capture member in a fixed position relative to both the housing unit and the plug member; wherein the prongs of the electrical plug member will be encased and surrounded in a mating relationship with the housing unit.
By virtue of the structural cooperation between the various components of the aforementioned electrical plug lock apparatus; different length plug members of both the two and three pronged variety may be safely and securely retained with in the apparatus in a quick, simple and efficient manner.