US 4,790,505 AGranted

Electrical box support bracket

OwnerSteven A. Rose, Irving Birkeninventors

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Abstract

A sheet metal channel-shaped bracket for supporting an electrical box at a pre-selected height in the wall-framing space between metallic channel-type wall studs affixed to and extending vertically upward from a metallic U-shaped base channel affixed to the floor of a building structure. The bracket has an elongataed channel-shaped member including a main wall and like side walls with the main wall presenting a front surface for mounting an electrical box thereon. The main wall of the bracket includes an extended sections which is folded into a series of portions which form a foot member for the bracket. The foot member of the bracket has a heel edge designed to engage the rear side wall of the base channel when the bracket is positioned within the base channel and the foot member has a toe bend at the front end of the foot member which forms a clamp for engaging the upper lip portion of the front side wall of the base channel for maintaining the bracket, and an electrical box affixed thereto, in a fixed vertical upright position.

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Dependent claims

A bracket for supporting an electrical box at a pre-selected height in the wall-framing space between metallic channel-type wall studs affixed to and extending vertically upward from a metallic U-shaped base channel, said bracket, comprising:

(a) an elongated sheet metal channel member having a main wall and like side walls, said main wall presenting a front surface for the mounting thereon of an electrical box;
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(b) a foot member for said elongated channel member formed from an extended section of the main wall of said channel member first folded rearwardly at a right angle from said main wall for a distance equal to the depth of said channel member, thence folded forwardly in a 360.degree. tight bend forming a heel edge of said foot member and extending forwardly for a distance equal to the inner width of the base channel into which said foot member is to be placed, thence folded upwardly in a right angle bend for a distance equal to the inner height of the front side wall of said base channel, and finally folded downwardly in a 360.degree. toe bend with an inner diameter equal to the thickness of the front side wall of said base channel and for a distance less than the outer height of said front side wall to form a front clamp portion of said foot member for clamping engagement of the upper lip portion of said front side wall to maintain said bracket in said base channel in a fixed vertical upright position.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.