Finish material interface flange
View Patent ↗The Finish Material Interface Flange provides an interface between specific electrical boxes and adjacent building assembly finish materials. The Finish Material Interface Flange preferred embodiment cooperates with the Flush Wallplate Electrical Box of parent application 17/723,176 serving to frame an electrical wallplate such that the wallplate finished face is essentially co-planar to the surrounding wall assembly finish material finished surface, referred to as a flush wallplate installation. The Finish Material Interface Flange also serves to facilitate a consistent termination of wall assembly materials at the periphery of the electrical box while reducing labor required to do so. The form of the Interface Flange provides the desired flush wallplate installation with minimum variability.
1. A finish material interface flange comprising:
a reveal back portion;
a reveal side portion orthogonal to and integrally connected to the reveal back portion;
a projection portion co-planar to and integrally connected to the reveal side portion;
a finish material abutment portion orthogonal to and integrally connected to the reveal side portion; and an open face,
the portions all formed as a unified structure, proportioned so as to permit said interface flange nested placement in a flush wallplate electrical box wallplate housing or a round flush wallplate electrical box wallplate housing and configured to interface between either of said flush wallplate electrical box housings and a wall, ceiling or floor assembly finish material and further proportioned to receive an electrical wallplate or a round electrical wallplate in a manner so as to dispose an electrical wallplate finished face or a round electrical wallplate finished face substantially co-planar to a wall, ceiling or floor assembly finish material finished surface.
2. The finish material interface flange of claim 1 wherein the finish material abutment portion receives a mesh or a tape element along its periphery.