Patents by Inventor Oral F. Leep

Oral F. Leep has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5904260
    Abstract: An electrical outlet box assembly including an outlet box and a lid. The outlet box generally includes a base, an outer wall parametrically bounding the base and extending upwardly therefrom forming a box interior, the outer wall having an upper and lower end, the upper end forming a lip which defines an opening to the box interior. The assembly further includes a lid. The lid has a closed position such that when the lid is in the closed position the opening to the box interior is partially covered forming a receptacle opening having a size substantially similar to an opening of a standard size outlet box. The lid further includes an open position such that when the lid is in the open position, the opening to the box interior is entirely uncovered thereby permitting unrestricted access into the outlet box interior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1999
    Assignee: Thomas & Betts Corporation
    Inventors: Claude J. Bauer, Oral F. Leep, Michael A. Swiney, Ronald Dean Wright
  • Patent number: 5831213
    Abstract: An electrical junction box assembly for accommodating an electrical cable inserted therein. The assembly includes a junction box and a cable clamp. The junction box includes a back wall and a side wall which perimetrically extends from the back wall to define an open end opposite the back wall. The junction box further includes a cable entry opening in the side wall for permitting insertion of the cable thereinto. The back wall further includes a cable clamp mount positioned adjacent the cable entry opening. The cable clamp mount has a clamp insertion surface positioned substantially orthogonal to the cable entry opening. The clamp insertion surface defines a cable clamp insertion aperture into which the cable clamp is manually removably insertable. The cable clamp includes a deflectable cable engagement arm spaced adjacent from the cable entry opening of the side wall of the junction box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1998
    Assignee: Thomas & Betts Corporation
    Inventors: Ronald Dean Wright, Claude J. Bauer, Oral F. Leep, Michael A. Swiney
  • Patent number: 4591658
    Abstract: An attachment for an electrical outlet box, junction box, or similar receptacle is swiftly, manually engageable in an opening of the outlet box. The attachment is inexpensively formed, preferably of a thermoplastic material, and is of a design lending itself to manufacture by the extrusion process to further reduce the cost of making it. The attachment may be of single or double form, and typically includes a resiliently flexible clamping leg one end of which is integrally formed with a mounting means readily engageable in the mounting opening of the outlet box. The other end is integral with a clamping head, that at least partially overlies a cable entrance, and is formed with serrations that bite into the surface of non-metallic, sheathed cable. When a cable is inserted it deflects the clamping head and leg against the spring tension of the leg.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1984
    Date of Patent: May 27, 1986
    Assignee: Challenger Electrical Marterials, Inc.
    Inventors: Claude J. Bauer, Vernon D. Dellinger, Oral F. Leep
  • Patent number: 4419537
    Abstract: Electrical wiring box arrangements include a wiring box, and a cable clamp device which mounts rotatably in a wall of the box adjacent to a knockout region. The cable clamp device provides a cable engaging surface which moves toward the cable as the clamp device is rotated. A non-metallic sheathed cable passing through a knockout opening in one wall of the wiring box is clamped between the edge of the knockout opening and the cable engaging surface of the clamp device mounted in a second wall of the box forming an angle with the wall having the knockout opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1983
    Assignee: GTE Products Corporation
    Inventors: Oral F. Leep, Vernon D. Dellinger, Claude J. Bauer