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US 4,051,322 AGranted
Electrical junction box
OwnerWilliam Park, Leo A. LeVitreinventors
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An electrical junction box comprises a base and a four-sided peripheral wall with a pair of opposite tubular connectors protruding outwardly from opposite end walls and providing ingress through respective walls, into the box. The box is split into two complementary parts along a line passing through the base and the opposite end walls including the connectors. The base is hinged so that the complementary parts may pivot relative to each other from their normal position of abutment to each other to open the connectors so that conductors within a sheathed cable can be passed through the box from the connectors after severing the surrounding sheath but without severing the cable conductors, and the severed ends of the sheath can be connected to the protruding connectors. This permits making electrical connections to the conductors within the box without severing the conductors. This also provides access to the inside of the sheath to fish additional circuits into the junction box.
An electrical junction box comprising a base formed of two base parts with a peripheral wall structure, including opposite end walls each comprising a pair of end wall parts joined to the periphery of the base, and a pair of opposite tubular split connectors attached to and projecting from said opposite end walls for attaching to a cable sheath, said end walls being split in a plane through the connectors, one of said connector parts being attached to each of said end wall parts and hinge means connected and related to the end walls permitting the end wall parts to pivot relative to each other from a normal position in which the parts of the respective end walls and connectors are in abutment, to another position in which said parts separate from each other so that the tubular connectors become open laterally to receive a conductor, said end wall parts being shaped to provide an opening for said conductors.
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