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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 26, 1997
Ward E Strang, Fairfield, CT (US);
Carol A Howard, Oxford, CT (US);
Hubbell Incorporated, Orange, CT (US);
Abstract
An electrical receptacle assembly includes a housing and a mounting bridge. The housing includes front and back covers adapted to mate together. The front cover has opposite forward and rearward sides and opposite top and bottom ends, and the back cover has opposite forward and rearward sides and top and bottom ends. The forward side of the front cover is a wall covering the same whereas the rearward side of the front cover is open. The forward side of the back cover is open whereas the rearward side of the back cover is a wall covering the same. The open forward side of the back cover is adapted to interfit with the open rearward side of front cover to provide them in a mated relationship with one another. The mounting bridge includes a body portion annular in shape having upper and lower ends and being adapted to fit over the front cover of the housing from the forward side and rearwardly to a position located intermediately between the forward and rearward sides of the front cover at which the annular body portion surrounds the front cover. The mounting bridge also includes a pair of upper and lower flange portions attached to and extending rearwardly from respective upper and lower ends of the body portion. The assembly also includes securement elements defined on the upper and lower flange portions of the mounting bridge and top and bottom ends of the front and back covers of the housing for releasably securing the upper and lower flange portions of the mounting bridge respectively to the top and bottom ends of the front and back covers of the housing with the front and back covers in the mated relationship with one another.