US 2022/0034488 A1Published application

Lighting junction box

AssigneeAMP Plus, Inc.

InventorBrandon Cohen

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Abstract

A lighting-junction-box-assembly-for-remodel (hereinafter, “assembly”) has a lighting-junction-box, leg-springs attached to the lighting-junction-box, and mounting-tabs attached to the lighting-junction-box. The leg-springs are used to (temporarily) hold (by friction) the assembly within a hole in an existing ceiling, sized to fit the assembly. While the leg-springs are (temporarily) holding the assembly within the hole in the existing ceiling, other/different holes within extension-portions of the mounting-tabs are used to secure the entire assembly to the existing ceiling, via mechanical fasteners passing through the extension-portion holes and into the existing ceiling. An existing ceiling may be retrofitted with this assembly to have a lighting-junction-box where desired/needed in that existing ceiling; and as such, this assembly is particularly useful in remodeling situations (applications); however, the assembly may also be used in new construction.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A lighting-junction-box-assembly configured for installation into a ceiling, wherein the lighting-junction-box-assembly comprises:

a lighting-junction-box that is configured for at least housing a portion of a lighting module within a cavity of the lighting-junction-box;
at least two springs attached to the lighting-junction-box, wherein each of the at least two springs has a distal end that points away from side-walls of the lighting-junction-box, but wherein the distal end does at least partially point upwards from a bottom of the lighting-junction-box towards a top of lighting-junction-box, wherein each of the at least two springs is configured to frictionally engage interior sides of a hole within the ceiling, wherein that hole is sized to fit at least most of the lighting-junction-box within an inside diameter of that hole;
and
at least two mounting-tabs attached to the lighting-junction-box, wherein each of the at least two mounting-tabs has an extension-portion that points away from the lighting-junction-box, wherein each of the at least two mounting-tabs is configured for facilitating attachment to the ceiling;
wherein the distal ends of the at least two springs and the extension-portions of the at least two mounting-tabs all point in different directions from each other.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/505,563Filed 19 Oct 2021
Priority: 13 Feb 2020
Published: 3 Feb 2022
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

F21V 21/03
Wall, ceiling, or floor bases; Fixing pendants or arms to the bases: ceiling bases, e.g. ceiling roses
H02G 3/123
For flush mounting: in thin walls
H02G 3/121
For flush mounting: in plain walls
H02G 3/085
Inlets: including knock-out or tear-out sections

Family

Application16/790,345Continuation in part · filed 13 Feb 2020
Application17/106,048Continuation in part · filed 27 Nov 2020
Application17/505,563Continuation in part
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