Mounting bracket for electrical outlet and low voltage units
AssigneeOEM Systems Company, Inc.
InventorsGregory H. Ford, Anthony L. Gable
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Abstract
A rough-in bracket is provided consisting of a border with a central opening sized to fit one or more receptacles and one or more low voltage units. The bracket has a snap-off alignment bar to properly align the receptacle. Rearward protruding wiring flanges provides support for low voltage wires and cabling. Another embodiment has a removable via plastic nubs alignment tool snapped on and is snapped into the mounted receptacle to allow the border to be screwed into the stud. Then the alignment tool is removed. Screw in bases in the forward flange of the border provide a mount for a low voltage unit, whereby a single plastic cover can esthetically cover both the receptacle and the low voltage unit.
Claims6
A bracket for wall mounting at least one low voltage tap point device adjacent to at least one standard electrical receptacle, said bracket comprising:
- a rigid border surrounding an opening sized and shaped to accept said at least one low voltage tap point device next to said at least one standard electrical receptacle;
- said rigid border having a forward flange around which a wall board can be framed;
- said forward flange having a removable alignment tool having alignment nubs projecting from an alignment bar and spaced to be received by a hole in an upper and a lower base of the standard electrical receptacle;
- said alignment bar supporting an upper and lower support arm, each support arm having a support arm nub;
- wherein each support arm nub is insertable into a respective top and bottom hole in the forward flange;
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- wherein the bracket is aligned with the standard electrical receptacle by inserting the alignment bar nubs into the receiving holes of the standard electrical receptacle and inserting the support arm nubs into the holes of the forward flange and then fastening the rigid border to the wall to which the standard electrical receptacle is fastened;
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- wherein the forward flange provides a mounting bracket next to the standard electrical receptacle to receive the low voltage tap point device after the removable alignment tool is removed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.