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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2010
John K. Grady, Harvard, MA (US);
John K. Grady, Harvard, MA (US);
Other;
Abstract
Applicant has disclosed an improved method and apparatus for installing electrical junction boxes in embedded concrete construction applications. In the preferred embodiment, a first box (with at least one attached conduit) is embedded in the bottom of a concrete deck at pour, wherein the box has an open bottom covered during the pour. After pouring, the cover is removed to expose the open bottom, through a plane of the deck, without having to break through the concrete. A second box, with an open top, is lifted up and fastened (preferably, screwed) to the embedded first box to complete a preferred electrical junction box. The second box is designed to be exposed to accept surface mount or exposed wiring methods. There is a passage between the first and second boxes for accepting wire pulled through the conduit(s).