Suspended ceiling fixture mount
AssigneeEclipse Manufacturing, Inc.
InventorsBernard F. Deschamps, Henry J. Macuga
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Abstract
An electrical fixture mounting device for hanging an electrical fixture, such as a fan or light, from a suspended ceiling having a criss-cross framework of perpendicular supporting members supported from an overhead support structure. The device includes a box having a closed top, an open bottom, a continuous side wall, and slots in the side wall extending inwardly from the open bottom and configured to engage the supporting members. A wire is fastened at one end to the box and at its other end to the overhead support structure to suspend the box from the overhead support structure.
Claims6
An electric fixture hanging device for hanging an electric fixture from a suspended ceiling supported by an overhead structure, said electric fixture hanging device comprising:
- a box having a closed top, an open bottom, and a continuous side wall having a first height;
- said side wall having four slots formed therein at 90 degree intervals for engagement with the suspended ceiling and said slots extending inwardly from said open bottom such that said slots extend inwardly from said open bottom by a second height that is less than said first height and wherein said slots have closed upper portions extending upwardly toward said box top, with breakable tongues removably attached to said upper portions of said slots for varying said slot height;
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- fixture fasteners for connecting the electric fixture to said box, wherein said fixture fasteners extend from said box top in the direction of said box bottom and are of sufficiently greater length than said first height such that distal ends of said fixture fasteners form connecting means for connecting the fixture to said box.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.