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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 02, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
John Eder, Floral Park, NY (US);
James J. Sherman, Jericho, NY (US);
Assignee:
Leviton Manufacturing Co., Inc., Little Neck, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01H 9/02 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01H 9/02 ;
Abstract
The threaded wallplate mounting lobes of a mounting strap are eliminated and replaced by a retainer made of thin, hard brass sheet metal. The retainer has a body portion fixed to the mounting strap at each of its two ends and an apertured lobe which takes the place of the lobes of the mounting strap. By contouring the shape of the apertures in the retainers, mounting fasteners may be forced through such apertures to assemble a wallplate to a mounting strap without the usual mating of fastener and threaded mounting lobes.