Device and method for firming-up a plug-socket connection

Claim 1

A flexible plug-to-socket connection firming-up device partly foldable from an initially substantially flat and inoperative state to at least a partly folded operative state, comprising in combination attachment means including a carrier and adhesive means affixed to said carrier, said adhesive means being adapted to adhere at least to a socket holder, said carrier and said adhesive means including an adhesive strip extending along a longitudinal direction, and further including a backing material normally adhering to an external side of said adhesive strip, but being capable of readily being peeled off therefrom prior to the attachment of said carrier to said socket holder, and connecting means having two major sides, and being connected to said attachment means, and including wrap-around means adapted to at least partially surround the plug, while substantially clearing a wire connected to said plug, said wrap-around means including first and second flaps extending normally outwardly from said longitudinal strip on respective opposite elongated sides thereof, and being releasably securable to one another at least near respective ends thereof, each flap including adhesion-enhancing means for facilitating adhesion of one flap to the other flap, while being substantially free from any adhesion-facilitating means enabling adhesion of one of said flaps to said attachment means, said adhesion enhancing means being applied to said first flap on a side thereof coinciding with one of said major sides, and being applied to said second flap on a side thereof coinciding with the other of said major sides, at least one of said flaps being formed with a V-shaped or U-shaped recess so as to subdivide said one of said flaps into two elongated flap portions normally extending transversely to said longitudinal direction, whereby, upon passing the plug from a side of the firming-up device opposite to said backing material through said elongated adhesive strip, thereafter peeling off said backing material from said elongated adhesive strip, thereafter plugging the plug into the socket, thereafter attaching the elongated adhesive strip at least to a holder of the socket, thereafter crossing said flap portions over one another, so that one flap portion lies over the other flap portion, and connecting the adhesion enhancing means of the flap portions and of the remaining flap to one another, so as to wrap said flap portions at least partially around the plug, while substantially clearing said wire attached to the plug, the plug is restrained from being unintentionally unplugged from said socket.