Bracket for mounting electrical junction boxes

• US 8,253,040 B2
• Filed: 06/08/2009
• Issued: 08/28/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/12/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Larry D. Hopkins
• Original Assignee: Larry D. Hopkins
• Inventors: Hopkins, Larry D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Duckworth, Bradley
• Application Number:
  US12/480,498
• Publication Number:
  US 20100288894A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,177 Days
• Field of Search: 248/906, 248/56, 248/71, 174/480, 174/481, 174/503, 174/505, 174/58
• US Class Current: 174/503
• CPC Class Codes: H02G 3/126 with supporting means for mounting on a single wall stud
• CPC Class Codes: H02G 3/32 using mounting clamps

Abstract

A mounting bracket for spacing an electrical junction box at a distance away from a portion of a frame wall, the frame wall having a top plate, a bottom plate and one or more wall studs extending the top plate and the bottom plate, the electrical junction box having a back plate and one or more sidewalls extending from the back plate, the one or more sidewalls adapted to receive one or more electrical conduits, the mounting bracket having a back plate and an securement plate.

Claims

1. An apparatus, comprising:

a frame wall comprising a top plate having at least one aperture extending therethrough, a bottom plate, and at least one wall stud extending between the top plate and the bottom plate;

a mounting bracket, comprising;

a back plate;

a securement plate extending substantially perpendicularly from the back plate, the securement plate having an open-sided notch; and

at least one fastener disposed through the aperture of the securement plate and secured to the top plate so as to connect the securement plate to the top plate with the open sided notch of the securement plate in alignment with the aperture of the top plate;

an electrical junction box having a back plate and a plurality of sidewalls extending from the back plate, the back plate of the electrical junction box connected directly to the back plate of the mounting bracket in a face-to-face, parallel relationship such that the electrical junction box is spaced a distance from the top plate of the frame wall;

a first electrical conduit extending from one of the sidewalls of the electrical junction box, through the open sided notch of the securement plate, and through the aperture of the top plate of the frame wall in an unbent state;

a strapping bracket, comprising;

a back plate;

a securement plate extending substantially perpendicularly from the back plate, the securement plate having at least one aperture; and

at least one fastener disposed through the aperture of the securement plate of the strapping bracket and secured to the top plate so as to connect the securement plate of the strapping bracket to the top plate of the frame wall;

a second electrical conduit extending from one of the sidewalls of the electrical junction box; and

at least one strap disposed about the second electrical conduit and secured to the back plate of the strapping bracket in such a way that the second electrical conduit is supported a distance away from the top plate of the frame wall by the strapping bracket in an unbent state.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the back plate of the strapping bracket and the back plate of the mounting bracket are substantially co-planar to one another.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the back plate of the mounting bracket includes one or more notches that allow one or more electrical conduits to interface with the back plate of the electrical junction box.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the back plate of the mounting bracket is sized to correspond to the back plate of the electrical junction box.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein a bottom portion of the back plate of the mounting bracket is flared and the securement plate extends perpendicularly from the bottom portion of the back plate such that the securement plate is wider than at least a portion of the back plate of the mounting bracket.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the back plate of the mounting bracket has an open-sided notch that allows an electrical conduit to interface with the back plate of the electrical junction box at a center point of the back plate of the electrical junction box.