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US 12,586,998 B2Granted
Electrical box with adjustable mounting system
AssigneeAllied Moulded Products, Inc.
InventorsCharles Heitmeyer, Dustin Morr
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Abstract
An electrical box assembly is disclosed including an electrical box having at least one sidewall, the sidewall including a channel formed therein to receive a threaded fastener. A mounting bracket is provided that is configured to be attached to a support member. The mounting bracket is operably engaged with the threaded fastener to facilitate an adjustment of the mounting bracket with respect to the electrical box, and consequently adjust the electrical box with respect to the support member.
Claims18
An electrical box assembly comprising:
- an electrical box having a sidewall and a front opening leading into an interior of the electrical box, the sidewall including a channel and a pair of opposing bracket-receiving openings formed therein;
- a bracket including a pair of opposing wings formed thereon and at least one guide structure formed thereon, each of the wings configured to be slidingly received in one of the opposing bracket-receiving openings;
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- a threaded fastener configured to be rotatably received in the channel and threadingly received in the at least one guide structure to selectively adjust a position of the bracket relative to the electrical box with respect to an axial direction of the threaded fastener, wherein each of the wings is formed at one of a pair of opposing ends of a main body of the bracket, and wherein each of the wings of the bracket includes an inclined portion extending from the main body and an offset portion extending from the inclined portion, wherein a first protuberance projecting from the electrical box frictionally engages an outwardly facing surface of the offset portion of a corresponding one of the wings and a second protuberance projecting from the electrical box frictionally engages an inwardly facing surface of the inclined portion of the corresponding one of the wings.
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An electrical box assembly comprising:
- an electrical box having a sidewall and a front opening leading into an interior of the electrical box, the sidewall including a channel and a pair of opposing bracket-receiving openings formed therein;
- a bracket including a pair of opposing wings formed thereon and at least one guide structure formed thereon, each of the wings configured to be slidingly received in one of the opposing bracket-receiving openings;
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- a threaded fastener configured to be rotatably received in the channel and threadingly received in the at least one guide structure to selectively adjust a position of the bracket relative to the electrical box with respect to an axial direction of the threaded fastener, wherein each of the bracket-receiving openings is defined by a surface of the electrical box having at least one protuberance projecting therefrom, and wherein each of the at least one protuberances frictionally engages a corresponding one of the wings.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.