Electricity: conductors and insulators – Boxes and housings – With electrical device
Reexamination Certificate
2005-06-07
2005-06-07
Patel, Dhiru R. (Department: 2831)
Electricity: conductors and insulators
Boxes and housings
With electrical device
C174S054000, C174S061000, C174S063000, C220S003200, C248S906000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06903272
ABSTRACT:
An electrical box is provided that is easily adaptable for ganging to an adjacent electrical box. The electrical box includes a body member having a pair of opposed side walls, a rear wall contiguously formed between the pair of opposed side walls, a pair of opposed guides bounding the body member and integrally formed therewith, and a pair of opposed tabs disposed between the pair of opposed side walls and integrally formed on the pair of opposed guides. A pair of opposed retention members disposed on the side wall that each have adjacent longitudinal slots for slidingly receiving one of the pair of opposed guides within one of the adjacent longitudinal slots when the side wall is inserted into the body member, a pair of opposed flanges integrally formed with the pair of opposed retention members and having an aperture disposed therein, a pair of opposed stop members integrally formed with the pair of opposed retention members for adding rigidity to the side wall when inserted into the body member and for abutting one of the pair of opposed guides of the body member.
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Barger G. Andrew
Patel Dhiru R.
Thomas & Betts International Inc.
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