Electricity: conductors and insulators – Conduits – cables or conductors – Single duct conduits
Patent
1992-05-19
1994-02-08
Eley, Timothy V.
Electricity: conductors and insulators
Conduits, cables or conductors
Single duct conduits
285162, F16L 500, H02G 318
Patent
active
052850137
ABSTRACT:
A connector for coupling non-metallic electrical conduit or tubing within an electrical box opening that is molded of plastic and is flexible and resilient and can be used with either plastic or steel electric boxes. The connector includes a ring, four legs resiliently and pivotally coupled to the ring with adjacent pairs of legs defining a slot therebetween, and four latch tabs located within the slots and flexibly and resiliently coupled to the ring for retaining the conduit within the connector and angled inwardly and extending away from the ring. Each leg has an arcuate groove therein for locking the connector within an aperture of an electrical box, and the legs form a stop wall for limiting insertion of the conduit within the connector. Each leg has a transverse arm which spans one of the slots. As the connector is being inserted into the aperture of the electrical box, each arm slidably engages the next adjacent leg. Once the connector is fully inserted into the electrical box and conductors have been fed through the conduit, the arms protect the conductors from being damaged by the electrical box.
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Kesler Gregory J.
Schnell Kenneth R.
'Hubbell Incorporated
Eley Timothy V.
Goodman Alfred N.
Nguyen Khan V.
Presson Jerry M.
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