Expanded – threaded – driven – headed – tool-deformed – or locked-thr – Externally threaded fastener element – e.g. – bolt – screw – etc. – Single element having means facilitating or effecting...
Patent
1992-08-27
1995-02-07
Picard, Leo P.
Expanded, threaded, driven, headed, tool-deformed, or locked-thr
Externally threaded fastener element, e.g., bolt, screw, etc.
Single element having means facilitating or effecting...
174 48, F16B 3500
Patent
active
053870662
ABSTRACT:
A method for assisting in the installation of an electrical fixture and an electrical fixture installation assist device formed as an attachment bolt formed as an elongate rod member capable of engagement with the attachment tab of a junction box, a weakened portion provided along the length of the elongate rod at a selected location, at least one end of the rod capable of passing through suitable openings in the fixture, a fastener carried by the end of the rod which extends through the openings in the fixture, the fastener capable of temporarily supporting the fixture adequately spaced from the junction box to facilitate completion of the electrical connection between the junction box and the electrical device carried by the fixture, the fixture capable of being raised along the elongate rod to a level above the weakened portion, the rod capable of being severed at the weakened portion upon the fixture reaching the level and the fastener adapted to be engaged with the remainent portion of the rod member for permanently supporting the fixture at the level. The attachment bolt may be formed of a single rod or a combination of a rod and enlarged headed bolt coupled thereto.
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Fox Sidney N.
Picard Leo P.
Tone D. A.
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