Ceiling fan brace bracket
AssigneeTitan3 Technology LLC
InventorJeffrey P. Baldwin
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Abstract
A ceiling fan brace bracket assembly with a bracket, at least two holes, at least one first screw, and at least one second screw. The bracket has a channel that opens toward a bottom of the bracket and at least one lip that extends along the channel. The channel is sized and shaped to extend around a ceiling fan brace. The at least two holes extend through the at least one lip, and each of the at least two holes is configured to align with a corresponding screw hole in an electrical box. The at least one first screw is a press-fit screw and is configured to extend downward through a first hole of the at least two holes. The at least one second screw is configured to extend upward through a second hole of the at least two holes.
Claims20
A ceiling fan brace bracket assembly, comprising:
- a bracket having a channel opening toward a bottom of the bracket and at least two lips one each extending along each of two sides of the channel, wherein the two sides of the channel are angled inward from a base of the channel toward the bottom of the bracket such that the channel is narrower adjacent the bottom of the bracket than at the base of the channel, the channel sized and shaped to extend around a ceiling fan brace;
- at least two first holes each extending through a different lip of the at least two lips, the at least two first holes each configured to align with a different one of at least two first corresponding screw holes in an electrical box, wherein each of the at least two first holes is unthreaded;
- at least two second holes each extending through a different lip of the at least two lips, the at least two second holes each spaced from the at least two first holes, the at least two second holes each configured to align with a different one of at least two second corresponding screw holes in the electrical box, wherein each of the at least two second holes is each threaded to receive a screw;
- at least two first screws having threaded ends and each configured to extend through a different respective one of the at least two first holes before extending through the at least two second corresponding screw holes in the electrical box, wherein the at least two first screws are each a press-fit screw configured to dig into and deform the bracket;
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- at least two second screws each threaded and configured to extend through a different one of the at least two second holes after extending through the at least two second corresponding screw holes in the electrical box.
A ceiling fan brace bracket assembly, comprising:
- a bracket having a channel opening toward a bottom of the bracket and at least one lip extending along the channel, the channel having two sides, wherein the two sides of the channel are angled inward from a base of the channel toward the bottom of the bracket such that the channel is narrower adjacent the bottom of the bracket than at the base of the channel, the channel sized and shaped to extend around a ceiling fan brace;
- at least a first hole extending through the at least one lip, the at least a first hole configured to align with a corresponding at least a first screw hole in an electrical box;
- at least a second hole extending through the at least one lip, the at least a second hole configured to align with a corresponding at least a second screw hole in the electrical box;
- at least one press-fit screw configured to dig into and deform the bracket, the at least one press-fit screw further configured to extend through the at least a first hole and align the at least a first hole with the corresponding at least a first screw hole;
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- at least one threaded screw configured to extend through the at least a second screw hole prior to threadedly engaging with the at least a second hole.
A ceiling fan brace bracket assembly, comprising:
- a bracket having a channel opening toward a bottom of the bracket and at least one lip extending along the channel, the channel sized and shaped to extend around a ceiling fan brace;
- at least a first hole extending through the at least one lip, the at least a first hole configured to align with a corresponding first screw hole in an electrical box;
- at least a second hole extending through the at least one lip, the at least a second hole configured to align with a corresponding second screw hole in the electrical box;
- at least one press-fit screw configured to extend through the at least a first hole and align the at least a first hole with the corresponding first screw hole, wherein the at least one press-fit screw is configured to dig into and deform the at least a first hole;
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- at least one threaded screw configured to extend through the corresponding second screw hole prior to engaging with the at least a second hole.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.