Electricity: conductors and insulators – Boxes and housings – With electrical device
Patent
1995-05-22
1998-02-10
Sough, Hyung S.
Electricity: conductors and insulators
Boxes and housings
With electrical device
220 33, H02G 308
Patent
active
057171645
ABSTRACT:
An electrical outlet box assembly has a first outlet box section and a second outlet box section intimately connected to the first outlet box section. A forward end of the second outlet box section has a height less than the height of a rearward end. A first wire port is in a second outlet top wall of the second outlet box section. A second wire port is in a second outlet bottom wall of the second outlet box section. A first wire clamping member has a first section slidingly connected to the second outlet top wall of the second outlet box section and partially slides over the first wire port. A second section is connected to the second outlet top wall of the second outlet box section and opposes the first section. There is a threaded member to move the first section toward the second section and releasably secure a wire between the first section and the second section. A second wire clamping member has a first section slidingly connected to the second outlet bottom wall of the second outlet box section and partially sliding over the second wire port. A second section is connected to the second outlet bottom wall of the second outlet box section and opposing the first section and there is a threaded member to move the first section toward the second section and releasably secure another wire between the first section and the second section. A grounding member is in the second outlet box section and there is assembly insertion indicia on an outside surface of the first outlet box section.
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Miller Henry S.
Patel Dhiru R.
Sough Hyung S.
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