Electrical raceway and receptacle assemblies
AssigneeThe Wiremold Company
InventorWilliam E. Parks
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Abstract
An electrical raceway assembly having a channel-shaped cover and a plurality of receptacles mounted in the cover. A pair of cover sidewalls have free edges bent toward one another, and longitudinally extending recesses are formed in opposite sides of the receptacles in confronting relation to the free edges on the cover sidewalls to provide a pair of by-pass conductor compartments with the free edges of the cover sidewalls serving as conductor retaining jaws. This invention also discloses an electrical receptacle assembly featuring a receptacle face cap removably fitted over a raised front face of the receptacle. The face cap has projecting flanges which may be interposed between the receptacle and its cover plate to secure the face cap in overlying position on the receptacle face.
Claims20
An electrical raceway assembly comprising an elongated channel-shaped cover having a cover plate with a pair of projecting sidewalls forming longitudinally extending free edges, the cover plate having spaced receptacle openings, one of the sidewalls having its free edge bent toward the other sidewall to form a conductor retaining jaw, and a plurality of receptacles mounted within the cover in spaced relation corresponding to the receptacle openings in the cover plate, the receptacles each having a recess extending along one side thereof in adjacent confronting relation to the conductor retaining jaw of said one sidewall, thereby providing a by-pass conductor compartment which cooperates with the conductor retaining jaw for controlled retention of a by-pass conductor between the receptacles and said one sidewall of the cover during raceway installation.
An electrical raceway assembly comprising an elongated channel-shaped base, a matching cover of resilient form-sustaining material, the base having a floor to be surface mounted on a support, the cover having a cover plate with spaced receptacle openings, the base and cover each having parallel sidewalls projecting respectively from the floor and cover plate to form longitudinally extending free edges on the base and cover engageable in mating assembly, the free edges of the base sidewalls being bent toward one another to form a longitudinally extending tongue on each base sidewall, the cover sidewalls each having a longitudinally extending external groove adjacent its free edge, the free edge of each cover sidewall being reversely bent to form an exterior lead-in lip and an interior conductor retaining jaw, the groove in each cover sidewall forming an exterior tongue-receiving recess and an interior projection, and a plurality of receptacles corresponding in number to the cover receptacle openings, each receptacle having retaining ribs projecting from opposite sides of the receptacle to be snapped under the interior projections of the cover sidewalls for retaining the cover and receptacles in assembly with the receptacles each pressed against the cover plate for ease and convenience of installation, each receptacle having recesses extending along its opposite sides in parallel adjacent relation to its retaining ribs and in confronting relation respectively to the conductor retaining jaws on the interior cover sidewalls, thereby providing a pair of by-pass conductor compartments which cooperate with the conductor retaining jaws of the cover sidewalls for controlled retention of a pair of by-pass conductors between the receptacles and the sidewalls of the cover during raceway installation and cover snapin assembly with the base.
An electrical raceway assembly comprising a cover having a cover plate and a pair of sidewalls projecting from the cover plate, the cover plate having a receptacle opening, a receptacle mounted within the cover, the receptacle having a recess extending along one side of the receptacle in adjacent confronting relation to one of the sidewalls, the receptacle and said one sidewall of the cover cooperating to provide a by-pass conductor compartment for controlled retention of a by-pass conductor between the receptacle and said one sidewall of the cover, the receptacle having a raised plug prong-receiving face receivable within the receptacle opening, and a receptacle face cap dimensioned and configured to be removably mounted on the receptacle in overlying relation to its face, the face cap having flanges projecting therefrom which when assembled are in interposed relation between the cover plate and the receptacle and serve to secure the face cap in overlying relation to the face of the receptacle.
An electrical receptacle assembly comprising a receptacle having a plug prong-receiving face, a receptacle face cap dimensioned and configured to be mounted in fixed overlying relation to the receptacle face, and a receptacle cover plate having an opening registrable with the receptacle face and, alternatively, both the receptacle face and its overlying face cap, the face cap having retaining means projecting therefrom which when assembled is in interposed trapped relation between the cover plate and the receptacle and serves to secure the face cap against movement in fixed overlying relation to the face of the receptacle.
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