Receptacles – Outlet or junction box type – Wall – floor – or panel mounted
Patent
1982-07-19
1983-09-13
Price, William
Receptacles
Outlet or junction box type
Wall, floor, or panel mounted
174 58, 220 33, 220 39, 248DIG6, H02G 310
Patent
active
044037082
ABSTRACT:
An electrical receptacle box particularly adapted for mounting to a metal wall stud prepared with a plurality of holes on the major side thereof arranged in ordered patterns at preferred installation locations of receptacle boxes. The electrical receptacle box includes a housing with a front opening and an interior volume for housing an electrical receptacle. A plurality of resilient tines are fixed in parallel relationship at one end to a side wall of the box housing and extend perpendicularly away from the side wall. The tines are arranged to describe a pattern generally corresponding to the hole pattern on the wall stud but can be slightly deviant from the pattern such that the tines fit in the holes of a selected hole pattern deflected under slight spring tension. The tines can have notches to engage the edges of the holes.
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1981 Caddy Fasteners Catalog.
Elkins Gary E.
Price William
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