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AssigneeSlater Electric Inc.
InventorsThomas S. Slater, Wade R. Bowden, Jr.
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The structure according to the invention includes a pair of flange members depending angularly towards each other from opposite sides of each electrical power cable entry port formed in a sidewall portion of an electrical outlet box, with each pair of cooperating flange members adapted to enable essentially complete closure of the cable entry port. According to one aspect, each cooperating pair of flange members comprises a pair of cable grasping detent flanges, each spaced from its corresponding wall portion by a base-like projection to accommodate an entry port closure panel. According to another aspect, the inward edges of each cooperating pair of flange members are coupled together to close the cable entry port which may be formed with a portion extending into the backwall, with a rigid flange depending from the sidewall portion and extending parallel to the front edges of the flange members. Each pair of flange members may be a pair of cable grasping detent flanges coupled together by a frangible web-like member extending between their grasping edges, or the flange members may be relatively thin panel members forming a shallow angle with their corresponding sidewall portions, with their adjacent edges joined directly to each other.
In an electrical outlet box having a wall structure including a backwall with a generally continuous sidewall upstanding therefrom defining a chamber interior thereof which opens along front edges of the sidewall, at least one cable entry port being formed in a portion of the wall structure for permitting insertion of an electrical power cable into the box, cable clamp means associated with at least one cable entry port, each said cable clamp means including a pair of oppositely disposed panel-like members formed integrally with the wall structure adjacent said cable entry port and depending angularly inwardly of the box towards each other, each said cable clamp means also including entry port closure means adapted generally to close the cable entry port associated with the cable clamp means when said entry port is not in use generally for preventing entry of debris into the box, yet being adapted to permit access through the cable entry port when a cable is to be inserted therethrough, said closure means including
An improved electrical outlet box having a wall structure which defines a chamber interior thereof said wall structure including a backwall with a sidewall upstanding therefrom to define the interior chamber, with at least one cable entry port formed in the wall structure to permit access for an electrical cable to the interior box chamber, the improvement comprising cable entry port closure means associated with at least one cable entry port, each said cable entry port closure means including a pair of panel-like members formed integrally with the wall structure and depending inwardly of the box from the sidewall on opposite sides of the cable entry port, said panel-like members extending angularly towards each other, the inward adjacent end edges of said panel-like members in each pair being frangibly connected, with flange means projecting from the wall structure and extending parallel to non-adjacent free end edges of its corresponding pair of panel-like members, such that each cable entry port is substantially closed by said panel-like members and said flange means but may be opened by manually forcing the end of an electrical power cable against said panel-like members with a predetermined force to fracture the frangible connection between adjacent panel-like members.
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