Electrical box bracket

摘要

An electrical box bracket includes features allowing it to engage multiple surfaces of a stud. The bracket has a front face for mounting an electrical box and a plaster ring, and a far-side tab bent backwards from the front face for making contact with a drywall behind the bracket. The front face has one or more arms that fit over the front face of a metal stud to which the bracket is to be attached. The front face also has one or more flanges projecting rearward from the same opposite sides of the front face, with stud-lock tabs for engaging a side surface or edge of a side flange of a stud. The bracket has legs that extend from the far-side tab, where the legs are foldable by an end-user to engage side surfaces of the metal stud at different distances from the far-side tab.

主权项

1. An electrical box bracket for use with a stud, the electrical box bracket comprising:
a front face portion to receive an electrical box; a far-side support connected to the front face portion; and a stud engagement mechanically coupled to the front face portion and the far-side support; the stud engagement including a snap-on arm to mechanically engage multiple surfaces of the stud when the electrical box bracket is attached to the stud; the snap-on arm including a proximal leg and a distal leg; the proximal leg extending outwardly from the front face portion to overlie a front face of the stud; the distal leg extending at an angle relative to the proximal leg to engage a far side of the stud that faces away from the front face portion; and the distal leg including a snap-on arm tab extending away from a main portion of the distal leg to engage the far side of the stud.