Wire guide for electrical boxes
OwnerGuy A. Chembarsinventor
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Abstract
A wire guide for electrical boxes utilizes a wire-guiding and support pulley mounted to the front of an attachment plate to feed or retrieve wire or cable from an electrical box. An access aperture provides access to the electrical box for hands or tools. Attachment screws 302 secure attachment plate to the electrical box through a plurality of attachment holes. Multiple attachment hole patterns allow use of the guide with various types of electrical boxes and allow attachment of the guide for vertical and horizontal offsets.
Claims21
A wire guide for use with electrical boxes, the guide comprising:
- an attachment plate comprising a front, a back, an access aperture and a plurality of access plate attachment holes, said plurality of access plate attachment holes comprising a first predetermined pattern matching attachment elements of a first electrical box and defining a geometric center of said first predetermined pattern;
- a wire pulley rotateably fixed to said plate wherein an entire portion of said wire pulley extends forward of said back of said attachment plate;
- wherein a first distance from said geometric center of said first predetermined pattern to a surface portion of said access aperture is greater than a second distance between said geometric center of said first predetermined pattern to at least one attachment hole of said first predetermined pattern.
A wire guide for use with electrical boxes, the guide comprising:
- an electrical box attachment portion comprising a front and a back, an access aperture and a plurality of predetermined attachment hole patterns, a first of said plurality of predetermined attachment hole patterns comprising two sets of through-holes, each of said two sets of through-holes comprising at least a pair of said through-holes aligning with at least a pair of threaded cover plate attachment holes in a first of said electrical boxes, and one of said each of two sets of through-holes offset 90 degrees with another of said each of two sets of through-holes whereby said attachment plate is attachable at 90-degree rotations with respect to said first electrical box;
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- a pulley rotateably fixed to said attachment portion wherein no portion of said pulley extends beyond said back of said attachment portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.