Adaptor for electric-light wall switch for operation by small children

Claim 1

An adaptor for an electric light wall switch, having a fixed part provided with screw aperture means and a movable switching button, and being adapted to be located at about standard height on the wall above a floor of a room, said adaptor comprising; a one-piece guide member adapted to overlie the wall switch and including laterally spaced side walls inner and outer wall means integrally connecting between said side walls to define a channel of rectangular cross-section through the guide member; and an elongated operating element including an extent thereof which is of cross-section adapted to be complementally slidably received in said channel; said inner wall means including opposite end cross-members of given shape and size, appropriately apertured for reception of screw means therethrough, for said screw attachment of said guide member to the switch part; and a central cross-member, of given shape and size, having opposite exposed ends defining openings between the same and the end crossmembers; said central cross-member being apertured for movable reception of the switching button therethrough to be operable by sliding movement of said operating element and move the switching button between on and off positions; said operating element having an extension therefrom adapted to extend downwardly of the fixed switch part to be within ready reach of a small child for manually operating the switching button from the floor; said outer wall means including a series of longitudinally spaced cross-members, defining outer openings of given shape and size between next adjacent said outer cross-members, and the defined outer openings being approximately the size and shape of the respective said central and opposite end cross-members.