Recessed ac wall outlet

• US 4,936,794 A
• Filed: 06/12/1989
• Issued: 06/26/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 06/12/1989
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: George Spector, Robert L. Shaw
• Original Assignee: George Spector, Robert L. Shaw
• Inventors: Shaw, Robert L., Spector, George
• Primary Examiner(s): Desmond, Eugene F.
• Application Number:
  US07/364,898
• Time in Patent Office: 379 Days
• Field of Search: 439/535, 439/538, 220/3.2-3.5
• US Class Current: 439/538
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 2103/00 Two poles
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/76 with sockets, clips or analogous contacts and secured to apparatus or structure, e.g. to a wall
• CPC Class Codes: H02G 3/125 with supporting bar extending between two separate studs of a wall frame

Abstract

A recessed electrical outlet is provided mounted in a wall and includes an outlet box that has an outer mounting surface for receiving an electric receptacle aligned with the surface in combination with a recessed cover plate to protect an electric plug which will not protrude past the wall. The outlet box can be secured to side of a wall stud by a fastener driven from open side of the outlet box through an angular mounting hole in a reinforced boss.

Claims

1. A recessed electrical outlet adapted to be mounted in a wall comprising an outlet box having a transverse outer mounting surface with recessed means for receiving an electric receptacle therein said receptacle having a portion aligned with said surface in combination with a recessed cover plate mounted on said receptacle and adapted to be mounted in said wall wherein said outlet box has means for receiving ends of opposite mounting straps of said electric receptacle for alignment and securing purposes wherein said receiving means includes upper and lower walls of said outlet box each having a slot extending about half away in from the open side thereof with a right angled outwardly extending mounting tab formed at the inward end of said slot.

2. A recessed electrical outlet as recited in claim 1, further comprising a reinforced boss having an angularly positioned mounting hole therethrough, said boss formed on the inner surface of one side of said outlet box so that said outlet box can be secured to a side of a wall stud when a fastener is driven from the open side of the outlet box through said mounting hole in said reinforced boss and into the wall stud.