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Adjustable electric outlet box

  • US 4,634,015 A
  • Filed: 07/15/1985
  • Issued: 01/06/1987
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/15/1985
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An adjustable electrical outlet box for mounting on conventional electrical junction boxes comprisinga mounting plate having a large central opening, and a plurality of smaller openings spaced about the central opening and adapted to receive fastening elements, said smaller openings being positioned to coincide with the threaded openings disposed about the perimeter of a conventional electrical junction box so that the mounting plate may be mounted on such conventional junction box,collar means open at the front and rear ends and disposed on the mounting plate about the central opening, said collar means including sidewalls which project outwardly of the plate a predetermined distance to define a front lip,frame means having sidewalls formed generally parallel and in slidable contact with the sidewalls of the collar means to move between a withdrawn position, where the front edge of the frame means is generally coincident with the front lip of the collar means, and an extended position where the front edge of the frame means is disposed a certain distance outwardly from the mounting plate beyond the front lip of the collar means, the height of the sidewalls of the frame means being generally same as or less than the height of the sidewalls of the collar means, andat least one screw means mounted on the frame means, and on the collar means or mounting plate, and disposed within and at the rear of the frame means so that when rotated in one direction, the frame means is caused to move toward the withdrawn position, and when rotated in the other direction, the frame means is caused to move toward the extended position.

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