Temporary electrical box covers
OwnerPatrick Michael LLOYDinventor
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Abstract
A protective cover to cover an opening of an electrical box having a threaded bore on inwardly projecting protrusions. In one approach the protective cover may have a back panel and four side panels together defining an interior cavity; a flange connected to a free edge of the side panels; wherein the flange has a pair of keyhole shaped bores defining a pair of openings along a center longitudinal axis of the flange; and wherein the keyhole openings are configured to allow a head of a screw to extend from the threaded bore and through a rounded portion of the keyhole opening and to allow a threaded shaft of the screw to slide along the length of an elongated narrow portion of the keyhole opening, the narrow portion being narrower than the diameter of the screw head.
Claims4
A protective cover configured to cover an opening of an electrical box where the electrical box has a threaded bore on inwardly projecting protrusions over the electrical box opening, the protective cover comprising:
- a back panel;
- four side panels which project perpendicularly from the back panel;
- the back panel and side panels together defining an interior cavity;
- the side panels at the opposite ends from the back panel having a free front edge that collectively define an opening which provides access to the interior cavity;
- a flange connected to the free edge of the side panels;
- wherein the flange has a pair of keyhole shaped bores defining a pair of openings along a center longitudinal axis of the flange;
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- wherein the keyhole openings are configured to allow a head of a screw to extend from the threaded bore and through a rounded portion of the keyhole opening and to allow a threaded shaft of the screw to slide along the length of an elongated narrow portion of the keyhole opening, the narrow portion being narrower than the diameter of the screw head.
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A protective cover configured to cover an opening of an electrical box where the electrical box has a threaded bore on inwardly projecting protrusions over the electrical box opening, the protective cover comprising:
- a back panel;
- four side panels which project perpendicularly from the back panel;
- the back panel and side panels together defining an interior cavity;
- the side panels at the opposite ends from the back panel having a free front edge that collectively define an opening which provides access to the interior cavity;
- a flange connected to the free edge of the side panels;
- wherein the flange has a pair of ribbed pliable pins extending alongside the side panels, the pin placement correlating with the positions of the threaded bores of the of inwardly projecting protrusions extending across the electrical box opening;
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- wherein the pins can be tapered from a base to a distal end in a range of about 1 to 25 degrees, and that the distal end of the pins is narrower in diameter than the opening of the threaded bores and the base of pins would be between 0.01 mm to 3 mm greater than the diameter of the threaded bore.
A protective cover configured to cover an opening of an electrical box where the electrical box has a threaded bore on inwardly projecting protrusions over the electrical box opening, the protective cover comprising:
- a back panel;
- four side panels which project perpendicularly from the back panel;
- the back panel and side panels together defining an interior cavity;
- the side panels at the opposite ends from the back panel having a free front edge that collectively define an opening which provides access to the interior cavity;
- a flange connected to the free edge of the side panels, the flange having a pair of bores correlating with the positions of the threaded bores of the of inwardly projecting protrusions extending across the electrical box opening;
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- pliable push pins having a head, a tab extending from the push pin head, and a pin tapered from a base to a distal end in a range of about 1 to 25 degrees, and that the distal end of the pins is narrower in diameter than the opening of the threaded bores and the base of pins would be between 0.01 mm to 3 mm greater than the diameter of the threaded bore.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.