Device for making cutouts in sheet material
OwnerPaul Bruce Rotherainventor
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Abstract
An apparatus for ensuring proper location for a cutout in a sheet of construction material, to provide for access to an electrical box, includes an electrical box locator device with a body and at least one spike. The body mounts to the front opening of the electrical box and the spike projects perpendicularly relative to the plane of the electrical box opening such that it pierces the sheet of construction material and is visible on the side of the sheet of construction material opposite the side facing the electrical box once the sheet of construction material is positioned over the opening of the electrical box so as to help in locating a cutout in the sheet of construction material for the electrical box.
Claims20
An electrical box locator device for making cutouts in sheets of construction material, for access to openings of electrical boxes mounted to a structure, the electrical box locator device comprising:
- a locator device body adapted for engagement to an electrical box such that said locator device body is located at or near an opening of the electrical box and in registry with the opening of the electrical box when said locator device body is mounted to the electrical box;
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- at least one spike attached to the frame such that said at least one spike projects outward perpendicularly relative to a plane coincident with the opening of the electrical box when said locator device body is mounted to the electrical box,
- wherein when the electrical box is mounted to the structure and said locator device body is mounted to the electrical box, a sheet of construction material can be positioned relative to the structure with said spike piercing through the sheet of construction material to at least help in locating a cutout in the sheet of construction material for the electrical box.
An electrical box locator device for use when making cutouts in sheets of construction material for access to openings of electrical boxes mounted to a structure, the electrical box locator device comprising:
- a locator device body adapted for engagement to an electrical box such that said locator device body is located at or near an opening of the electrical box and in registry with the opening of the electrical box when said locator device body is mounted to the electrical box;
- at least one resilient member for frictionally engaging the electrical box to thereby keep said electrical box locator device in place relative to the electrical box when said electrical box locator device is mounted to the electrical box;
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- at least one spike attached to the frame such that said at least one spike projects outward perpendicularly relative to a plane coincident with the opening of the electrical box when said locator device body is mounted to the electrical box,
- wherein when the electrical box is mounted to the structure and said locator device body is mounted to the electrical box, a sheet of construction material can be positioned relative to the structure with said spike piercing through the sheet of construction material to at least help in locating a cutout in the sheet of construction material for the electrical box, and
- wherein a portion of said locator device overlaps an edge of the opening of the electrical box so as to prevent said locator device from being pushed too far in the inward direction relative to the opening of the electrical box.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.