Combination power and communication electrical wall terminal

Details Combination power and communication electrical wall terminal Combination power and communication electrical wall terminal

1991-05-24

1993-09-07

Picard, Leo P.

Electricity: conductors and insulators

Boxes and housings

With electrical device

174 48, 220 392, H02G 308

Patent

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052431347

ABSTRACT:
A combination electrical wall terminal incorporating a communication receptacle and an electric power device such as a convenience power receptacle, a line switch or the like. The electrical wall terminal comprises a junction box for installation in a hollow wall structure, the junction box defining a housing for the electric power device and includes a pair of laterally projecting and vertically spaced apart support flanges mounted to a side wall of the housing. In addition, the electrical wall terminal comprises a wall plate retained to the support flanges, provided with an aperture facing the junction box housing to receive the power device and includes a communication receptacle that fits between the support flanges of the junction box. The invention also extends to a side plate to adapt a conventional knockdown electrical junction box for use in a combination electrical wall terminal according to the invention.

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