Wire support bracket

• US 5,615,850 A
• Filed: 03/06/1995
• Issued: 04/01/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 03/06/1995
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Leonard W. Cloninger
• Original Assignee: Leonard W. Cloninger
• Inventors: Cloninger, Leonard W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Chotkowski, Karen J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): King, Anita M.
• Application Number:
  US08/398,696
• Time in Patent Office: 757 Days
• Field of Search: 248/68.1, 248/65, 248/49, 248/909, 211/26
• US Class Current: 248/68.1
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 3/22 specially adapted for supporting a number of parallel pipes at intervals
• CPC Class Codes: H02G 3/26 Installations of cables, lines, or separate protective tubing therefor directly on or in walls, ceilings, or floors by means of insulators H02G3/24; supports for pipes, cables or protective tubing F16L3/00; hose-clips F16L33/02
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 248/909 Frangible component, e.g. having a score line or groove

Abstract

An improved wire bracket for use in construction which can be used to hold and organize electrical wires within holes located in the bracket. The bracket has two separable portions with a breakaway line separating the two portions, each of the individual portions having holes formed therein through which wire is threaded. The bracket further having reinforced mounting flanges or plates oriented on each of the three axes of the bracket to provide flexibility in mounting the bracket on different construction members.

Claims

1. A wire bracket, to be fastened to a construction member, for holding and organizing electrical wire comprising;

an elongated body having a length, width, and depth axis;

the elongated body having a first portion and a second portion separated by a breakaway line;

the elongated body further having a plurality of holes extending through the depth of the elongated body and spaced along the length of the elongated body in both the first and second portions through which holes the electrical wire is to be threaded;

a plurality of reinforced fastener accepting means, positioned parallel to each of the three axes, for use in fastening the wire bracket to the construction member; and

indexing fingers extending outwardly from the body for indexing the bracket on a construction member.

2. The wire bracket according to claim 1 wherein the reinforced fastener accepting means along the length and width axes includes a flange with a screw hole extending through the flange.

3. The wire bracket according to claim 1 wherein the reinforced fastener accepting means along the depth axis includes an embedded plate with a screw hole extending through the embedded plate.

4. The wire bracket according to claim 1 wherein the holes of the body are circular.

5. The wire bracket according to claim 1 wherein the construction member comprises a wooden "I" beam having a web and the bracket is sized to space wires extending through the holes a predetermined distance from a side of the web opposite the side on which the bracket is mounted.