There is disclosed a wall plate for a wiring device. The wall plate has a
single opening for receiving one or a gang of two or more wiring devices
within the single opening. The wall plate has along its vertical axis, a
surface of positive first differential and zero second differential,
comprised of a combination of splines drawn between points of varying
distance from a datum plane. The surface has zero second differential
when the rate of height increase of individual splines is constant. The
wall plate, when composed of non-conducting material, has a conductive
coating on its front surface, on its back surface or on both its front
and back surfaces. When the wiring device is a switch, the surface of the
switch face follows that of the wall plate. When the wiring device is a
receptacle, the surface along the receptacle face is flat in one plane to
allow for the proper seating of an inserted plug.