Multiple outlet structure

Claim 1

An electric outlet control unit for providing individual and collective control of a plurality of electrical receptacles and an indication of the use thereof comprising in combination a master switch, a master-indicating lamp, transparent identification channel-shaped members, circuit means, and a plurality of electric outlet housings, each of said outlet housings including an electrical outlet receptacle, an outlet switch, an outlet indicator lamp, each of said outlet switches being connected to control current flow from said circuit means to said master lamp and each of said outlet receptacles, and mounting means for each outlet housing, including mounting screws, said circuit means electrically connecting each of said outlet receptacles with receptacles of other outlet housings in a parallel connection and connecting each of said receptacles to said master switch and said master indicating lamp and said mounting means further including a pair of side walls for each outlet housing, oppositely disposed lugs extending each from one of said side walls and defining screw holes therethrough and each of said outlet housings further including a top wall defining exposure openings for each of said outlet receptacles, each of said outlet switches and each of said outlet indicator lamps, said control unit further comprising in combination a generally rectangular unit housing including front and backwalls, a bottom wall, sidewalls and a means for removing said front and sidewalls from said backwall, said bottom wall including mounting posts extending upwardly, defining vertically oriented threaded mounting openings, and corresponding in position to the position of said screw holes such that mounting of each of said outlet housings is provided by insertion of said mounting screws through said screw holes and into said threaded mounting openings thereby raising each of said outlet housings from said bottom wall, isolating each of said outlet housings from each other and from the bottom wall to which they are mounted, and said front wall defining outlet housing exposure openings for exposing said outlet housing top walls and further defining identification channel-shaped member attachment openings attaching said channelshaped members, and said control unit further comprising in combination a fuse assembly, said fuse assembly including a fuse, a member electrically connecting said fuse in series in said circuit means, means removably connecting said member to said circuit means and means removably retaining said fuse within said member.