Abstract: A bracket for holding conductors at a selected distance from the surface of a wall board to be mounted to a building stud. The bracket has a channel formed between a pair of plates and a bendable strap for closing the channel. The strap has an angularly oriented return to engage a side wall and a locking tab to hold the strap in closed position. The channel width is adjustable to accommodate different sized conductors. One of the plates has a bend line for adjusting the total width of the bracket for mounting on a narrower stud.

Abstract: A cable positioning bracket is provided for mounting to a building component, e.g. a wall stud. The bracket has an anchor plate for being connected to the broad surface of the building component and a pair of side plates for being connected to the narrow surface of the building component. A pair of platforms are positioned adjacent to a slot for supporting one or more cables. A series of opposed tabs are provided in several embodiments, the tabs oriented to engage and support one or more cables. One side plate pivots away from the building component by means of a hinge plate to insert the cable or cables. The tabs may be formed with side strips surrounding a window, the strips allowing arcuate bending of the tabs to control tab flexure. A score line may be provided to enable bending to fit a building component of a different width.

Abstract: A cable positioning bracket is provided for mounting to a building component, e.g. a wall stud. The bracket has an anchor plate for being connected to the broad surface of the building component and a pair of side plates for being connected to the narrow surface of the building component. A pair of platforms are positioned adjacent to a slot for supporting one or more cables. A series of opposed tabs are provided in several embodiments, the tabs oriented to engage and support one or more cables. One side plate pivots away from the building component by means of a hinge plate to insert the cable or cables. The tabs in one embodiment are formed with side strips surrounding a window, the strips allowing arcuate bending of the tabs to minimize fatigue failure.

Abstract: A cable positioning bracket is provided for mounting to a building component, e.g. a wall stud. The bracket has an anchor plate for being connected to the broad surface of the building component and a pair of side plates for being connected to the narrow surface of the building component. A pair of platforms carry a series of opposed tabs that are oriented to engage and support one or more cables. One side plate pivots away from the building component by means of a hinge plate to insert the cable or cables.

Abstract: An improved construction and method of constructing a field-bendable stud-engaging tab for electrical box supports that can be formed with less tool wear and bent in the field (for example, to conform to particular electrical box depths) with less force than previously required, and when necessary, straightened and re-bent. Scores are formed in the tab during the manufacturing process by applying shear force with a punch to the sheet metal of the tab, typically by a method in which the punch is applied to a portion of the sheet metal that rests over a cavity in the die, creating a sheared edge in each score wherein the metal is at least partially fractured, said fracture coinciding with at least part of a corresponding bend line. The bend lines also comprise unscored areas. In the field, the tab can be bent and re-bent along the bend lines.

Abstract: An electrical box support is provided having either a single strut accommodating a constant stud spacing or a set of struts telescoping one within the other to accommodate the length for attachment to adjacent studs of different spacings. Each strut has a face suited for mounting an electrical box. An end tab formed at each of outer opposite ends of the support is adapted for bending so as to be able to mount an electrical box appropriately matching the surface of a wall board to be installed. Bending of the tab along a controlled straight line is accomplished by the formation of discontinuous score lines formed along each of several bend lines and which permit, when necessary, the end tab to be straightened and rebent without fracturing the metal forming the end tab.

Abstract: An electrical box support is provided having a set of struts telescoping one within the other to accommodate the length for attachment to studs of different spacings. Each strut has a face suited for mounting an electrical box and has a series of inwardly directed, uniformly and relatively closely spaced detents. The detents serve both for releasably locking the length of the support and for guiding the entry of screws used to attach the box to the support. Each strut has an end tab adapted for bending to mount to the studs in a position established so that a mounted electrical box appropriately meets the surface of a wall board to be installed. Bending in a controlled straight line is accomplished by the formation of discontinuous score lines. A second embodiment of the invention is formed with two struts having end tabs and a third strut having no end tabs and engaging the other two struts. Either one or both of the struts with end tabs can be moved to change the length of the assembly.

Abstract: The present invention comprises a bracket adapted for installation in a building wall by attachment to adjacent studs. The bracket has a pair of mirror image end connecting portions bent so as to position the bracket between the studs and position an electrical box mounted thereon so as to be flush with a wall to be assembled subsequently to the studs. Accommodation is made to field modify the end connecting portions for electrical boxes of varying depth. The bracket has a series of holes with which to mount electrical or other apparatus with machine screws and a series of conical detents for piloting and firmly holding sheet metal screws. Variations on the main embodiment provide a bracket with oval shaped holes and detents and a bracket with detents only.

Abstract: The invention disclosed provides a mounting bracket configured to attach an electrical outlet box to a wall or ceiling stud in a building construction. The mounting bracket comprises a front panel adapted to retain an outlet box by one or more screws, a parallel and forwardly offset mounting flange adapted to be securely fastened to the front surface of a wall or ceiling stud, a perpendicular step connecting the front plate and the mounting flange and a buttress attached to a top or bottom edge or both edges of the front panel in perpendicular relation thereto and with the step and buttress being positioned to abut a side surface of the wall or ceiling stud. Alternative embodiments illustrate various forms of the front panel, buttresses and other stiffening structure.

Abstract: An improved bracket for supporting a mounting plate having electrical connectors on a wall panel such as used in low voltage system for telephone, television, communication, speaker, alarm outlets and the like is adapted for either new work or old work. The bracket assumes one position for old work, is installed on the front side of and nests within the old work wall panel outlet opening and is secured by bendable legs forming part of the bracket. For new work, the bracket assumes another position and the bendable legs or other edge portions of the bracket are secured to a new construction member after which the bracket is nested into the back side of a new panel opening secured over the bracket.

Abstract: An improved electrical switch box mounting bracket is formed of a single piece of sheet metal in an L-shape or T-shape with right-angled plate portions at one end, one of which plate portions is adapted to serve as a stiffening arm between the walls. At the opposite end another flat plate portion is adapted to be secured to either another bracket of the same type or of another type in piggyback fashion or to an extension plate in turn secured to a stud. A recessed plate portion between the ends of the bracket provides an opening which registers with and receives either a one ear or two ear type electrical switch box for mounting using bendable tabs forming part of the bracket. An alternative embodiment does not employ the stiffening arm.

Abstract: An outlet box mounting bracket is formed with a right angle extension formed from material removed to establish an opening to register substantially with the interior chamber of an outlet box. In a modified embodiment, the bracket includes an additional right angular flange effective as a brace against a stud to which the mounting bracket is secured.

Abstract: A mounting bracket for retaining a junction box adjacent to a wall under construction. The mounting bracket includes a laterally extending member having a cutout section removed therefrom. A flange is substantially orthogonally connected to one side of the laterally extending member. At least one ear is operatively connected to the laterally extending member and projects through the cutout section in the same direction as the flange. A slot extends along the ear and is in communication with an insert opening positioned in the laterally extending member adjacent to the cutout section. A junction box, for electrical cables, telephone cables, television cables, or the like, having a positioning screw may be readily inserted through the cutout section with the positioning screw engaging the slot to retain the junction box relative to the mounting bracket.