Abstract: A cut out template device is provided which enables fast installation of electrical boxes and devices by allowing for improved alignment and location. The cut out template includes a cavity having a size and shape approximating the size and shape of the electrical box and at least one leveler bubble for ensuring the template is level in either the horizontal or vertical direction.

Abstract: A unitary support bracket facilitates secure and efficient support of an electrical box, and one or more associated conduits. The support bracket includes a central portion, and a plurality of leg portions which extend integrally therefrom. Each of the leg portions includes a downwardly deformable distal portion, which in turn each include at least one resiliently deformable tab engageable with a respective one of the conduits. By this arrangement, the efficient support of an electrical box, and one or more associated conduits, can be provided, with minimal assembly of various components required, thus facilitating convenient and efficient installation of the associated electrical system.

Abstract: In a dual-sided mounting bracket for electrical junction boxes, wherein the mounting bracket comprises first and second stud coupling members and first and second junction box receiving members adjacent the respective stud coupling members, and an offset portion interposed between the first and second junction box receiving sections, and wherein each junction box receiving section has two expansive sides and two lengthwise extending edges and is adapted for mounting an electrical junction box or electrical junction boxes to a given one of the expansive sides of such junction box receiving section, each junction box receiving section has two flanges, each extending along a given one of the lengthwise extending edges of such junction box receiving section and projecting from the other one of the expansive sides of such junction box receiving section, so as to project away from an electrical junction box or electrical junction boxes mounted to the given one of the expansive sides of such junction box receiving s

Abstract: A unitary support bracket facilitates secure and efficient support of an electrical box, and one or more associated conduits. The support bracket includes a central portion, and a plurality of leg portions which extend integrally therefrom. Each of the leg portions includes a downwardly deformable distal portion, which in turn each include at least one resiliently deformable tab engageable with a respective one of the conduits. By this arrangement, the efficient support of an electrical box, and one or more associated conduits, can be provided, with minimal assembly of various components required, thus facilitating convenient and efficient installation of the associated electrical system.

Abstract: In a dual-sided mounting bracket for electrical junction boxes, wherein the mounting bracket comprises first and second stud coupling members and first and second junction box receiving members adjacent the respective stud coupling members, and an offset portion interposed between the first and second junction box receiving sections, and wherein each junction box receiving section has two expansive sides and two lengthwise extending edges and is adapted for mounting an electrical junction box or electrical junction boxes to a given one of the expansive sides of such junction box receiving section, each junction box receiving section has two flanges, each extending along a given one of the lengthwise extending edges of such junction box receiving section and projecting from the other one of the expansive sides of such junction box receiving section, so as to project away from an electrical junction box or electrical junction boxes mounted to the given one of the expansive sides of such junction box receiving s

Abstract: For an electrical box having an open front, mounting an electrical device, and having a plaster ring, which fastens to the electrical box, around the open front, and which has a projecting portion defining a generally rectangular aperture providing access to the electrical device, through the open front, after the electrical box, the electrical device, and the plaster ring have been installed behind a wall panel, such as a drywall panel, a protective cover is mountable removably to the plaster ring so as at least substantially to cover the generally rectangular aperture of the plaster ring, whereby to protect the electrical device against foreign matter, damage, or both while an aperture accommodating the projecting portion of the plaster ring is cut into the wall panel or while the wall panel is being decorated near the aperture accommodating the projecting portion of the plaster ring.

Abstract: A bracket assembly is disclosed, which is useful with a combination of an electrical box, a plaster ring, and a fastener or fasteners for fastening the plaster ring to the electrical box, for mounting the combination between two building studs, which are spaced within a range of spacings. The bracket assembly comprises a first bracket and a second bracket, each bracket having a mounting base, which is adapted for mounting to one of the building studs, and each bracket having two parallel legs, which extend from the mounting base of said bracket. At least part of each of the parallel legs of the first bracket is adapted to lie over or under and to slide along at least part of one of the parallel legs of the second bracket, in a telescoping relationship, when the bracket assembly is mounted so that the mounting bases of the brackets are mounted to the building studs, whereby the first and second brackets can be slidably adjusted to accommodate any spacing of the building studs within a range of spacings.

Abstract: A floor stand for mounting an electrical box and for supporting a conduit extending downwardly to the electrical box has a conduit-supporting flange projecting backwardly from an upper portion of the upright member and is adapted to mount an electrical box so as to bear against a back face of the floor stand, beneath the conduit-supporting flange, which has three apertures, each adapted to pass a conduit extending downwardly through the aperture, to an electrical box so mounted. The conduit-supporting flange has a slot communicating with each aperture, from an edge of the conduit-supporting flange, and the conduit-supporting flange has a tab adjacent to the slot. The tab is adapted to permit a conduit to enter that aperture from the edge of the conduit-supporting flange, via the slot, if the tab is bent sufficiently, and to block a conduit from exiting that aperture, via the slot, if tab is unbent.

Abstract: A floor stand having two parallel uprights mounts an electrical box having a plaster ring, via fasteners passing between the parallel uprights, whereby the parallel uprights are clamped between the plaster ring and the electrical box.

Abstract: For an electrical box having an open front, mounting an electrical device, and having a plaster ring, which fastens to the electrical box, around the open front, and which has a projecting portion defining a generally rectangular aperture providing access to the electrical device, through the open front, after the electrical box, the electrical device, and the plaster ring have been installed behind a wall panel, such as a drywall panel, a protective cover is mountable removably to the plaster ring so as at least substantially to cover the generally rectangular aperture of the plaster ring, whereby to protect the electrical device against foreign matter, damage, or both while an aperture accommodating the projecting portion of the plaster ring is cut into the wall panel or while the wall panel is being decorated near the aperture accommodating the projecting portion of the plaster ring.

Abstract: For an electrical box having a plaster ring, which has a projecting portion defining a generally rectangular aperture, a protective cover having a front panel and flanges is mountable so as at least substantially to cover the generally rectangular aperture. A top flange has two lateral portions, each spaced by a slit from an upper edge of a lateral flange. A bottom flange has two lateral portions, each spaced by a slit from a lower edge of a lateral flange. Each lateral flange has an outer surface that is planar except for a recess adapted to receive a tool inserted between such lateral flange and an adjacent edge of the generally rectangular aperture.

Abstract: A floor stand for mounting an electrical box and for supporting a conduit extending downwardly to the electrical box has a conduit-supporting flange projecting backwardly from an upper portion of the upright member and is adapted to mount an electrical box so as to bear against a back face of the floor stand, beneath the conduit-supporting flange, which has three apertures, each adapted to pass a conduit extending downwardly through the aperture, to an electrical box so mounted. The conduit-supporting flange has a slot communicating with each aperture, from an edge of the conduit-supporting flange, and the conduit-supporting flange has a tab adjacent to the slot. The tab is adapted to permit a conduit to enter that aperture from the edge of the conduit-supporting flange, via the slot, if the tab is bent sufficiently, and to block a conduit from exiting that aperture, via the slot, if tab is unbent.

Abstract: A floor stand mounts an electrical box having a plaster ring. The electrical box defines a generally rectangular cavity, which is bounded by an upper wall, a lower wall, and two lateral walls, each wall having a distal edge and at least two said walls having ears projecting from their distal edges. The plaster ring defines a generally rectangular frame bounded by an upper member, a lower member, and two lateral members and is fastenable to the electrical box. The floor stand has two parallel uprights, each having an upper end and a lower end and each having an outer, backturned, stiffening flange. The floor stand has a structure bridging the upper ends of the two parallel uprights and a structure bridging the lower ends of the parallel uprights. The parallel uprights are positioned between the lateral members of the plaster ring and the distal edges of the lateral walls of the electrical box.

Abstract: For an electrical box mounting an electrical device, and having a plaster ring, has a projecting portion defining an aperture providing access to the electrical device, a protective cover is mountable removably to the plaster ring so as to cover the aperture, whereby to protect the electrical device while an aperture accommodating the projecting portion of the plaster ring is cut into the wall panel or while the wall panel is being decorated. In one contemplated embodiment, the protective cover is made from steel and has a window, which has a transparent sight made from a transparent, polymeric material. In another contemplated embodiment, the protective cover in its entirety is made from such a transparent, polymeric material.

Abstract: As stamped from sheet metal, an elongate hanger for hanging an electrical box between a pair of ceiling panel-supporting bars has two opposite ends, a main panel with a front surface and a back surface, a lower flange, and an upper flange. Each flange projects from the front surface and has plural grooves. Each groove is arranged to receive a tire wire wrapped around the hanger so that the tie wire is restrained in that groove against slipping along the hanger. At each of the opposite ends, the main panel has a pair of slits defining a tab adopted to be bent at a right angle. Each tab has a hole arranged to receive a fastener to fasten the tab to a ceiling panel-supporting bar extending at a right angle to the hanger.

Abstract: As stamped from sheet metal, a hanger useful for hanging an electrical fixture from a suspended ceiling has a main panel, a lower flange, and an upper flange. Near each of its opposite ends, the hanger is provided with a slot defining a tab. The slot opens at and the tab extends to a projecting edge of the lower flange. Corners defined where the projecting edge of each of the upper and lower flanges meets each of the opposite ends of the hanger and where the slot opens at the projecting edge of the lower flange are rounded approximately to a radius not less than approximately 1/16 inch. Because of the rounded corners, an installer can handle the hanger and can manipulate the tabs with bare hands, without exposure to sharp corners at the corners so defined and so rounded. The slots are spaced equally from the opposite ends of the hanger.