Electricity: conductors and insulators – Boxes and housings – With electrical device
Patent
1998-03-23
2000-07-18
Reichard, Dean A.
Electricity: conductors and insulators
Boxes and housings
With electrical device
220 392, H01H 902
Patent
active
060910232
ABSTRACT:
A combined enclosure for an industry standard electrical device, such as a switch or power receptacle, and a control device for controlling the electrical device, the control device having both controlled connectors and controlling connectors. The combined enclosure comprises an electrical device enclosure, a control components enclosure, and a dividing/mounting plate. The electrical device enclosure has an opening in the bottom defining two side ledges, and the top has a first mounting element adjacent to the front opening for mounting the electrical device in the electrical device enclosure. The control components enclosure has a top opening with side walls bent over to form flanges along sides of the top opening and fits through the opening in the bottom of the electrical device enclosure so as to hang by the flanges from the side ledges. The plate completes the electrical device enclosure and provides a second electrical device mounting element so that the electrical device may not be mounted in the combined enclosure unless the plate is installed. An aperture in the plate is provided for mounting the control device to the underside of the plate so that the controlled connectors are accessible from the upper side of the plate and the controlling connectors are accessible from the underside of the plate.
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