Quick mounting strap for electric receptacle

• US 3,187,294 A
• Filed: 05/29/1963
• Issued: 06/01/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 05/29/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Gillis Murray Hallam, Paul H. Winter
• Original Assignee: Gillis Murray Hallam, Paul H. Winter
• Inventors: GILLIS MURRAY HALLAM, Winter, Paul H.
• Application Number:
  US04/284,123
• Time in Patent Office: 734 Days
• US Class Current: 439/565
• CPC Class Codes: H02B 1/044 Mounting through openings

Claims

3. AN ELECTRICAL RECEPTACLE ADAPTED FOR MOUNTING WITH ACCESS ONLY FROM THE FRONT THEREOF IN AND THROUGH AN OPENING IN A FIXTURE WALL, SAID RECEPTACLE COMPRISING A GENERALLY CYLINDRICAL INSULATING HOUSING, A FLAT ANNULAR PLATE ATTACHED TO AND EXTENDING OUTWARDLY FROM NEAR THE FRONT FACE OF THE HOUSING AND SIZED TO OVERLAP THE FIXTURE WALL SURROUNDING SAID OPENING, SCREWS DIPOSED ABOUT 180* APART EXTENDING THROUGH SAID PLATE AND ALONGSIDE THE RECEPTACLE AND SPACED TO ENTER THROUGH THE FIXTURE OPENING, A MOUNTING STRAP THREADEDLY ENGAGED BY SAID SCREWS, EXTENDING MORE THAN HALF-WAY ABOUT THE RECEPTACLE AND NORMALLY SIZE TO LOOSELY PASS THROUGH SAID FIXTURE OPENING, AND COOPERATING MEANS ON SAID MOUNTING STRAP AND RECEPTACLE TO LATERALLY SPREAD SAID STRAP AS THE SCREWS ARE ROTATED FROM THE FRONT TO DRAW THE STRAP TOWARD THE FIXTURE WALL WHEREBY PORTIONS OF ITS UPPER FACE ENGAGE BENEATH THE UNDER SURFACE OF SAID FIXTURE WALL TO CLAMP THE HOUSING AND PLATE THERETO.