Mountings for electrical fixtures in junction boxes

An improved mounting for electrical fixtures to be wired into junction boxes having side walls joining at their inner ends a bottom wall, comprising:

• a. a fixture holder bracket having a bottom portion and having leg portions joining at their inner ends said bottom portion and mutually spaced apart by a separation such than when the bracket is inserted into a box, said leg portions will lie adjacent to opposed side walls of the box when the bottom portion lies parallel to the bottom wall of the box;
• b. means for attaching the outer ends of the leg portions to the box near the outer ends of its side walls comprising, at the outer end of each leg portion an attaching lug member, said lug members extending oppositely from each other and lying parallel to the bottom portion of the bracket and disposed to extend over the outer ends of the side walls, and the lug members having at their outer ends clip members extending parallel to the side walls of the box and spaced from the leg portions of the bracket such that the clip members grip said side walls when the bracket is installed in the box;
• c. the bottom portion of the holder bracket having two spaced parallel free edges extending longitudinally between said leg portions, each of these free edges being turned to extend outwardly from the bottom portion then convergently toward each other and then divergently from each other to form between the edges a fixture receiving clip;
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• d. an electrical fixture having an outer portion comprising an electrical unit to be wired, and having an inner mounting portion receivable into the bottom portion of the bracket between its legs and its clip edges, the inner mounting portion of the fixture having longitudinal ridges extending in opposite directions therefrom and located to snap into said bottom portion between said clip edges.