Siding box

Details Siding box Siding box

1998-01-03

2000-04-18

Kincaid, Kristine

Electricity: conductors and insulators

Boxes and housings

With electrical device

174 53, 174 50, 220 402, 52 60, 2982051, H01H 902

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060517867

ABSTRACT:
An two-piece siding box easily adapted for mounting various electrical devices such as outlets, switches, or light fixtures. The siding box including a mounting block and a face plate. One end of the mounting block is fastened to an outdoor surface of a building near an electrical source. The opposite end of the mounting block includes a peripheral wall and bosses within the peripheral wall that extend away from the surface of the building. An electrical device is fastened with screws to one or more bosses within the peripheral wall of the mounting block. The face plate includes a peripheral wall of a slightly smaller dimension than the peripheral wall of the mounting block. The face plate is brought in contact with the mounting block with the smaller peripheral wall of the face plate being slidingly engaged within the larger peripheral wall of the mounting block. A standard cover appropriate for the device mounted within the mounting block is then placed outside the face plate. A screw is fastened though the cover and into the device mounted within the mounting block to create the two-piece siding box.

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patent: 5877450 (1999-03-01), Quin

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