OUTLET BOX WITH ADJUSTABLE MOUNTING

• US 3,834,658 A
• Filed: 05/18/1973
• Issued: 09/10/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 02/22/1972
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Panos C. Theodorides
• Original Assignee: Panos C. Theodorides
• Inventors: Theodorides, Panos C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Foss, J. Franklin
• Application Number:
  US05/361,398
• Time in Patent Office: 480 Days
• Field of Search: 248/25R,216,DIG.6,27 220/3.9,3.3,3.2,3.7,3.92
• US Class Current: 248/27.1
• CPC Class Codes: H02G 3/125 with supporting bar extending between two separate studs of a wall frame
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 248/906 Electrical outlet box support

Abstract

An electrical outlet box assembly comprising in combination a box and bracket slidable on a side wall of the box and adapted to be secured to a wall stud. A screw carried by the bracket registers with a threaded opening on the side wall. When turned the screw causes the box to move on the bracket either in or out with respect to the wall surface.

Claims

1. An outlet box assembly comprising walls defining an outlet box, a bracket movably supported to the exterior of one wall of the box and having an arm extending from the box, which arm is constructed and arranged to be secured to a stud in a wall in which the assembly is to be installed, said bracket being mounted for movement by means wholly exterior of said outlet whereby said outlet box is substantially free of inwardly extending projections from said mounting means, a drive screw lying wholly outside the interior of the box, said drive screw being mounted at its ends to a pair of spaced lugs extending outwardly from a side wall of said outlet box, and being freely rotatable within said lugs along an axis spaced from and paralleling said side wall, said end of said bracket which is adjacent said outlet box including a member disposed between said screw supporting lugs, said member receiving said screw therethrough and threaded engagement therewith whereby rotation of said screw may permit relative movement of said outlet box and said bracket, said member including a surface oriented substantially parallel to and in sliding engagement with said side wall of said outlet box, said movement between said outlet box and said bracket being limited by engagement with said member with said lugs.

2. An outlet box assembly as defined in claim 1 further characterized by said member at the inner end of said bracket being formed from a single piece of sheet metal integral with said arm and defining a U-shaped channel having a bottom wall and a pair of upstanding flanges, said bottom wall comprising that portion of said member which bears slidably against said side wall of said outlet box, and each of said flanges having a hole formed therethrough to receive said screw, one of said holes being threadable engaged with said screw and the other of said holes being larger than said screw to permit free rotation of said screw therethrough.

3. An outlet box assembly as described in claim 2 further characterized by the more forward of said flanges being offset rearwardly from the plane of said arm of said bracket by a connecting wall, said connecting wall and the outwardly extending arm portion of said bracket defining a corner region adapted to fit against the corner of the wall stud to which said arm is secured.