Utility box locator

Details Utility box locator Utility box locator

1978-07-07

1980-06-24

Shoap, Allan N.

Receptacles

Outlet or junction box type

Wall, floor, or panel mounted

33174G, 33DIG10, H02G 308, G01B 514

Patent

active

042091039

ABSTRACT:
A locator for a utility box mountable to a stud with a box rim of preselected perimeter size and shape about a box opening facing a sheet of wallboard. The locator includes a support snuggly mounted to the utility box from which a locator pin projects, and a template of perimeter size and shape approximating that of the box rim and formed with an aperture sized to receive the locator pin. A method of locating a utility box overlaid with wallboard includes the steps of providing a projection on the utility box, overlaying the utility box with wallboard, puncturing the wallboard with the projection, placing a template over the wallboard with the projection extending through a template opening, and marking the wallboard about the template.

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patent: 2990172 (1961-06-01), Gianotta
patent: 3260400 (1966-07-01), Miles
patent: 3888013 (1975-06-01), Benoit
patent: 3924331 (1975-12-01), Goosen
patent: 4059905 (1977-11-01), Wieting

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