Electrical plug protector and cleaner

Claim 1

For use with an electrical plug of the type having a terminal-bearing part including a free end and provided with a plurality of parallel, axially elongated terminals of cylindrical section exposed at the free end, one of which is a male terminal and the other of which is a female terminal: a protector comprising a body having first and second opposite ends including a base disposed at and closing the first end and a portion integral with the base and extending from the base to the second end and leaving the second end as a free end, the portion including a plurality of parallel terminal-receiving elements exposed at the second end of the body and being spaced apart and equal in number to the plug terminals, one of said elements being a female element and another being a male element and said elements further being cylindrically and axially configured to telescopically and frictionally interfit in moisture-proof fashion respectively with the plug terminals, the protector body further including a continuous peripheral wall integral with the base and projecting to and substantially coterminous with the second end and in spacedly surrounding relation to the male terminal-receiving element, the wall being so configured and dimensioned as to telescopically receive and surround the terminal-bearing part of the plug that provides the female terminal.