Floor fixture

• US 4,240,688 A
• Filed: 10/01/1979
• Issued: 12/23/1980
• Est. Priority Date: 10/01/1979
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: AMP Incorporated (Johnson Controls International plc)
• Original Assignee: AMP Incorporated (Johnson Controls International plc)
• Inventors: Sotolongo, Thomas J.
• Primary Examiner(s): McQuade, John
• Application Number:
  US06/080,911
• Time in Patent Office: 449 Days
• Field of Search: 339/119 R, 339/121, 339/122 R, 339/122 F, 339/123, 339/125, 339/132 R, 339/154, 339/158, 174/48, 174/49, 220/3.3, 220/3.94
• US Class Current: 439/535
• CPC Class Codes: H02G 3/185 Floor outlets and access cups
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 439/925 Floor mounted, e.g. under carpet

Abstract

A floor fixture adapted for use with flat undercarpet power distribution systems has a face plate with a snap-in retaining feature requiring no screws and a mounting arrangement which allows for rotation of the fixture after installation.

Claims

1. A floor fixture comprised of:

a housing comprised of

a base having two opposed sides and two opposed faces which define an aperture therebetween and having mounting means located on said sides,

opposed upright side walls spaced from said faces and extending from said sides to a bight extending between said sidewalls, said bight and sidewalls having a raised ridge extending around the interior thereof,

a face plate having flexible side members, said side members having a height at least equal to the distance from said bight to said mounting means of said housing, said side members having a bottom surface configured to complement said mounting means and a depth no greater than the distance from a face to said ridge of said housing whereby,

said side members are flexed inward, said face plate is moved into said housing until it is against said ridge and said side members are released locking said complementary bottom surfaces against said mounting means.

2. A floor fixture comprised of:

a housing comprised of

a base having two opposed sides and two opposed faces which define an aperture therebetween, a pair of platforms, said platforms located at diagonally opposed unions of sides and faces, each of said platforms having an upstanding post thereon and a slot therein, said slot being located between said upstanding post and said union, and a pair of mounting means located on said sides adjacent to said platforms,

opposed upright side walls spaced from said faces and extending from said sides to a bight extending between said sidewalls, said bight and sidewalls having a raised ridge extending around the interior thereof;

a face plate having flexible side members, said side members having a height at least equal to the distance from said bight to said mounting means of said housing, said side members having a bottom surface configured to complement said mounting means and a depth no greater than the distance from a face to said ridge of said housing whereby,

said side members are flexed inward, said face plate is moved into said housing until it is against said ridge and said side members are released locking said complementary bottom surfaces against said mounting means.

3. A rotatable floor fixture for use in a current distribution system comprised of:

a floor plate adapted to be secured to a floor, said floor plate having an aperture with at least two mounting posts positioned diagonally across said aperture and two arcutate slots positioned diagonally on a second diagonal across said aperture and proximate to said mounting posts,

first securing means for securing said floor plate to said floor through said arcuate slots,

a housing for mounting on said floor plate, said housing having two opposed sides and two opposed faces defining a second aperture in a plane above and parallel to the plane of said floor plate, a pair of platforms positioned at diagonally opposed unions of sides and faces, each platform having an arcuate slot located for mating with one of said mounting posts,

second securing means for securing said housing to said posts on said floor plate, whereby,

rotation is achieved by loosening said first and second securing means and rotating said floor plate arcuate slots and rotating said arcuate slots of said housing on the mounting posts of said floor plate.