PANEL MOUNTING APPARATUS

摘要

An adapter for mounting an electric socket or the like in a panel board. The adapter is shaped to receive and hold the socket. Spaced lugs extend outwardly from opposite sides of the adapter and engage the rear side of the panel. First and second flanges also extend outwardly from the adapter adjacent the lugs for holding the appliance against the front side of the panel. The flanges are fastened to the adapter by resilient, outwardly biased segments that hold the flanges in engagement with the front side of the panel. The biased segments may be releasably moved toward the adapter to install or remove the adapter from the panel board thereby allowing the socket to be wired prior to the time it is mounted in the panel board.