Mechanically adjustable electric outlet device

Claim 1

A multiple electricl outlet device which is mechanically adjustable, comprising: an elongated housing made of insulating material; a pair of electric circuit wires disposed in spaced relation within said housing; a plurality of contact pairs spaced along the length of said housing, the contacts in each of said pairs extending into the interior of said housing and being connected to corresponding ones of said circuit wires, said housing having openings through which said contacts are accessible from the exterior of said housing, whereby each of said circuit pairs provides a separate electrical receptacle; an elongated metal spring member disposed within said housing and insulated from said circuit wires, said spring member extending substantially the full distance between the two most remote ones of said receptacles; means associated with one end of said housing for selectively energizing said circuit wires; a first fastener part carried by the other end of said housing; at least two of said receptacles adjacent said one end of said housing being of such configuration as to form a second fastener part, said first and second fastener parts being adapted for selective interengagement; and said housing and said metal spring member cooperatively providing a resiliently deformable action such that said housing may be bent into a substantially circular configuration with said other end thereof being positioned in the vicinity of said one end thereof, in order to interengage said first and second fastener parts together; whereby said device may be selectively formed into a circular configuration of desired diameter, and when usage thereof has been completed, may then be returned to its original essentially straight configuration.