General purpose electrical box kit

• US 5,272,279 A
• Filed: 07/01/1992
• Issued: 12/21/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 07/01/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Bell Products, Inc.
• Original Assignee: BEL Products Incorporated
• Inventors: Filshie, Dave
• Primary Examiner(s): Rosenbaum, Mark
• Assistant Examiner(s): HUGHES, SAMUEL T
• Application Number:
  US07/907,180
• Time in Patent Office: 538 Days
• Field of Search: 174/50, 174/51, 174/52.1, 174/66, 220/3.3, 220/3.2, 220/3.7, 220/3.8, 220/241, 220/254, 29/401.1, 206/328, 206/329, 312/245, 312/291
• US Class Current: 174/50
• CPC Class Codes: H02B 1/40 Wall-mounted casings; Parts thereof or accessories therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H02B 1/46 Boxes; Parts thereof or accessories therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 5/0008 assembled by screws

Abstract

A general purpose box kit normally used in electricity as, for example, a junction box, a splicing box or a wire drawing box. The kit includes a metal housing having an opening suitable to be close either by a pivotable lid or by a flat lid directly screwed thereon. It allows change of the lid without having to change the whole box.

Claims

1. A general purpose electrical box kit comprising:

(a) an open housing, said housing having a bottom wall and four sidewalls, said four sidewalls having upper edges defining together an opening;

(b) means for fixing said housing onto a supporting structure;

(c) a plurality of breakable disks made within at least one of said four sidewalls;

(d) at least two flanges integrally projecting from the upper edges of at least two of said sidewalls opposite to each other, said flanges extending in a plane parallel to said bottom wall and facing each other;

(e) a first set of holes comprising at least two holes made in said at least two flanges, respectively;

(f) a second set of two holes made in said sidewalls, said two holes being coaxial and located in upper corners of two of said sidewalls opposite to each other;

(g) a first lid attachable onto said housing for closing said opening by means of fixation means inserted into holes made in said first lid and positioned for fitting into the holes of said first set of holes; and

(h) a second lid attachable onto said housing for closing said opening by means of fixation means inserted into holes made in at least two opposite flanges on said second lid extending in a plane parallel to one of said sidewalls and located outside thereof when said second lid is closing said housing, said holes corresponding to one of said holes of said second set of holes, said two coaxial holes forming, along with their corresponding holes of said second lid and said fixation means inserted therethrough, a swivel;

wherein said housing is used with any one of said first or second lid.

2. The kit of claim 1, further comprising a handle affixed onto said second lid to ease its opening and locking means for locking said second lid on said housing.

3. The kit of claim 1, wherein said housing is made of metal.

4. The kit of claim 3, further comprising means for fixing an object inside said housing.

5. The kit of claim 4, wherein said means for fixing an object inside of said housing is a ground terminal.

6. The kit of claim 1, wherein said means for fixing said housing onto said supporting structure is a set of holes made in said bottom wall, in which screws are inserted.

7. The kit of claim 1, wherein said fixation means of said first and second lids comprise identical screws.

8. The kit of claim 1, wherein said holes of said first and second set of holes are threaded holes, and said fixation means of said first and second lids are screws.

9. The kit of claim 1, wherein said fixation means of said first and second lids are taper pins.

10. A general purpose electrical box kit comprising:

(a) a metal open housing, said housing having a bottom wall and four sidewalls, said four sidewalls having upper edges defining together an opening;

(b) a set of holes made in said bottom wall in which screws are inserted for fixing said housing onto a supporting structure;

(c) a plurality of breakable disks made within at least one of said four sidewalls;

(d) at least two flanges integrally projecting from the upper edges of at least two of said sidewalls opposite to each other, said flanges extending in a plane parallel to said bottom wall and facing each other;

(e) a first set of holes comprising at least two holes made in said at least two flanges, respectively;

(f) a second set of holes, comprising at least three holes made in said sidewalls, two of said at least three holes being coaxial and located in upper corners of two of said sidewalls opposite to each other;

(g) a first lid attachable onto said housing for closing said opening by means of screws inserted into holes made in said first lid and positioned for fitting into the holes of said first set of holes; and

(h) a second lid attachable onto said housing for closing said opening by means of taper pins inserted into holes made in at least two opposite flanges on said second lid extending in a plane parallel to one of said sidewalls and located outside thereof when said second lid is closing said housing, said holes corresponding to one of said holes of said second set of holes, said two coaxial holes forming, along with their corresponding holes of said second lid and said taper pins inserted therethrough, a swivel, said second lid also comprising a handle affixed thereon for easing its opening;

(i) means for fixing an object inside said housing;

wherein said housing is used with any one of said first or second lid.

11. A general purpose electrical box kit comprising:

(a) a metal open housing, said housing having a bottom wall and four sidewalls, said four sidewalls having upper edges defining together an opening;

(b) a set of holes made in said bottom wall in which screws are inserted for fixing said housing onto a supporting structure;

(c) a plurality of breakable disks made within at least one of said four sidewalls;

(d) at least two flanges integrally projecting from the upper edges of at least two of said sidewalls opposite to each other, said flanges extending in a plane parallel to said bottom wall and facing each other;

(e) a first set of threaded holes comprising at least two threaded holes made in said at least two flanges, respectively;

(f) a second set of threaded holes comprising at least three threaded holes made in said sidewalls, two of said at least three threaded holes being coaxial and located in upper corners of two of said sidewalls opposite to each other;

(g) a first lid attachable onto said housing for closing said opening by means of screws inserted into holes made in said first lid and positioned for fitting into the threaded holes of said first set of threaded holes; and

(h) a second lid attachable onto said housing for closing said opening by means of screws inserted into holes made in at least two opposite flanges on said second lid extending in a plane parallel to one of said sidewalls and located outside thereof when said second lid is closing said housing, said holes corresponding to one of said threaded holes of said second set of threaded holes, said two coaxial threaded holes forming, along with their corresponding holes of said second lid and said screws inserted therethrough, a swivel, said second lid also comprising a handle affixed thereon for easing its opening;

(i) means for fixing an object inside said housing;

wherein said housing is used with any one of said first or second lid, said screws used for operatively attaching said first lid and said screws used for operatively attaching said second lid being identical.