Electrical box with multi-mount features
View Patent ↗A multi-mount, multi-use commercial line electrical box includes first and second side walls, lower and upper walls forming a front opening into the electrical box, and a rear wall. The first side wall has one or more removable external flanges, each flange having a front surface flush with an edge of the front opening for accommodating one or more fasteners. The second side wall also has one or more removable external flanges for accommodating one or more fasteners. A slide-in plate is mounted in side recesses along an inner surface of one of the side walls. The slide-in plate has one or more angled screw guides for a fastener in registry with an exit hole in one of the side walls. One of said lower and upper walls accommodates external attachment nails.
1. A multi-mount, multi-use electrical box comprising:
first and second side walls, lower and upper walls forming a front opening into said electrical box, and a rear wall;
a mounting block removably mounted along an inner surface of said first side wall, said mounting block having one or more angled screw guides for fastener screws in registry with one or more corresponding exit holes in said first side wall;
one or more rails integrally molded on said inner surface of said first side wall for receiving said mounting block; and
said mounting block having one or more slots for engaging said one or more rails to allow said mounting block to be inserted into said opening of said electrical box as needed, said mounting block being removable.
2. The electrical box of claim 1 in which at least one of said side walls has one or more alignment tabs mounted on an outer surface thereof.
3. The electrical box of claim 2 in which said tabs are removable.
4. The multi-mount, multi-use electrical box as in claim 1 wherein said first side wall has multiple exit holes and said mounting block has a pair of angled screw guides for alignment with corresponding said exit holes.
5. A multi-mount, multi-use, molded non-conductive multi gang electrical box comprising: first and second side walls, lower and upper walls forming a front opening into said electrical box, and a rear wall; a mounting block removably mounted along an inner surface of said first side wall, said mounting block having one or more angled screw guides for fastener screws in registry with one or more corresponding exit holes in said first side wall; and one or more rails integrally molded on said inner surface of said first side wall for receiving said mounting block; said mounting block having one or more slots for engaging said one or more rails to allow said mounting block to be inserted into said opening of said electrical box as needed, said mounting block being removable; and one of said lower and upper walls having means for accommodating external attachment fasteners, a bus extending from bay to bay along an internal ledge having orthogonal fingers extending toward said front opening in the center of each of said bay position and bent over into a contact pad to touch an underside of any device flange mounted in said bay, whereby all switch or outlet mounting flanges are guaranteed to be at the same potential, a bent over portion of each said fingers is in a molded recess, said bent portion keeps said pad from moving during the application of a mounting screw.
6. The electrical box of claim 5 in which a ledge is formed on each of inner surfaces of said lower and upper wails, said each ledge having one or more pins to engage mounting holes of attached mounting flanges for securing said bus to said box.