The Wiremold Company

Wilfred R Rogers

Salvatore A Cancellieri

Ralph R Damiano

Charles A Whitney

John J Chapdelaine

Paul F Nugent, Jr

An electrical outlet box is provided for assembly with a base to define an enclosed space for receiving an electrical outlet device such as a duplex plug. The plug includes threaded fasteners that are received in uniquely configured hardened steel clips. These clips are preassembled with the box for this purpose. Each clip includes an upper portion of U-shape for receiving the flat stock provided at the top portion of the box. Each clip has depending panels that cooperate to define a V-shape such that the apex of the V defines a slotted opening for receiving the threaded fastener as a result of a push-in motion. The edges of the slotted opening act on the threaded portion of the fastener to prevent its withdrawal except by unthreading.

Metal electrical outlet box with push-in screws for mounting electrical

An office coral has a wall that supports a desktop on which various items of office equipment are to be connected with power and data communication cables within the coral structure. A desktop raceway is secured to the wall or desk top and defines both a wireway for the connecting cables and a storage facility for the cabling normally provided on the equipment. The raceway is made up of two generally L-shaped extrusions, one a back plate, the second a cover. The cover has a front panel that defines a slot in cooperation with the back plate's lower edge. A wireway is provided inside the cover adjacent its top panel, and cabling storing or wrapping clips are provided on both the back plates and inside the cover.

Desktop raceway

A mild steel outlet box is stamped from flat sheet stock into a base and a cover that fit together with an interference fit that avoids the need for threaded fasteners. The base has circular knock-outs in the side and end walls, each of which is aligned with a knock-out slot in the bottom wall to allow an electrical metal tube (EMT) to be secured to the box without the usual offset bend. Each such knock-out opening also has a set screw threadably received in an integrally formed land aligned with the knock-out opening to secure the tubing to the base. An electrical device can be pushed into place without threading its fasteners. Hardened steel clips are mounted to the base for slidably receiving such fasteners so they must be unthreaded for removal. Each clip has a V-shape with the apex of the V defining a slotted opening that so receives the threaded fastener.

Electrical outlet box with base and snap-on cover for use with

An electrical/mechanical tubing connector attached to a surface mounted electrical device box having a cover releasably secured to a mounting base includes a grooved inner end portion received within a notch in a wall of the cover and opposing recesses in the inner end portion receiving a tongue carried by the mounting base. Barbs on the tongue incise and grip the connector for improved retention and electrical continuity. An end of a length of mechanical/electrical tubing received within the outer end of the connector is secured to the connector by a set screw.

Electrical/mechanical tubing connector for surface mounted electrical

An extruded track or base has exposed conductor segments molded into the polymeric base. A socket defining adaptor is releasably secured to the base in any location there along by twisting it through only 45 degrees or less. The adaptor is assembled from a back plate that has cams designed to fit into slots provided in the base, and a cover portion that defines a socket for a thru prong plug. In a cavity defined by the cover and back plate fixed and flexible contacts provide electrical connection between the plug socket and the conductor segments in the track or base. Each plug prong is connected with an opposite conductor and the ground plug stud connects to a ground conductor in the base through a spring located at the axis of rotation for the adaptor during the twist locking of the adaptor onto the track.

Raceway with track mounted electrical receptacles randomly placed

A raceway has extruded polymeric base and cover portions that snap together, and a socket defining segment of the cover can be located anywhere along the base to provide design flexibility for socket location. The base has elongated wire conductors molded into upstanding legs that define self-hinges for resiliently acting on the plug prongs when the plugs are pushed into slots defined by these leg portions. The plug prongs can be used to rotate a safety disk in the cover prior to pushing the prongs into the slots.

Plug in raceway with socketless receptacle

A three component electrical outlet box suitable for surface mounting is provided with a base having both locating legs and relatively rigid upstanding posts that are adapted to receive one of a plurality of covers, each cover having inwardly projecting lugs in its flexible side walls to be received in openings defined for this purpose in the posts. An electrical device such as a duplex plug with threaded fasteners supplied thereon is adapted to be assembled with the outlet box as a result of the fasteners being received in unthreaded openings defined in the top wall of the box or cover. The flexibility of the box side walls coupled with a bisector slot provided in each top wall end portion parallel the side walls assures entry of the threaded fastener without threading, and removal of the fastener only by unthreading or by manually spreading the slots side walls. A face plate is provided for quick assembly with the cover and is received in openings that also serve as convenient access for a tool to spread the side walls to facilitate disassembly of the cover from the base.

Molded plastic electric outlet box with snap-on base and push-in

Molded plastic electric outlet box with snap-on base and snap-on face

An electrical transition connector is disclosed for establishing an electrical transition connection between a multiple conductor flat cable and plurality of individual wire conductors. The conductor includes a pair of mating housing blocks with one of the blocks having multiple pairs of circular openings centered on opposite sides of a blade contact slot. The other housing block has blade contact slots formed therein and matching the blade contacts slots of said one housing block for alignment in registration with one another when the housing blocks are assembled. A blade contact is received in each matching pair of blade contact slots. A pair of jacking screws extend through the one housing block and threadably engage the second housing block for securing the blocks in assembly, whereby each blade contact is secured in an operative position for establishing an electrical transition connection between a flat cable conductor and an individual wire conductor.

Flat cable transition connector

A customized raceway system is disclosed which is designed to be surface mounted along the bottom of a structural panel for quick and easy installation and concealment of telephone and electrical wiring. The raceway system features a corner fitting for interconnecting a pair of raceways and accommodating different panel layout configurations minimizing time and effort of installation by virtue of an open sided construction and selectively removable tabs longitudinally extending along three side edges of rectangular plates of the corner fitting for establishing continuity between isolated raceway communication and power compartments.

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Bristol, CT, United States of America

Wilfred R Rogers