Patent ID: 7025311
Filing Date: 2006-04-11
Classification: E04H,F21V,F21W,H02G

Abstract:
1. A low profile support for mounting an electrical fixture in the ground comprising: a rigid, square, hollow elongated body having side walls, a top end, and a bottom end; a top wall integral with said side walls and closing said top end; an aperture in said top wall; said bottom end cut at an angle to provide a substantially wide and long bottom opening therein for the receipt of cables; an access portal formed in a first of said side walls; a plurality of integral stabilizer bars extending from one or more of said side walls at or just above said bottom opening, said integral stabilizer bars including a fin portion and a base at the juncture with said side walls and a distal end; said fin portion tapered from said base to said distal ends; said integral stabilizer bars having a length between said base and said distal end of approximately the exterior width of said rigid body; said integral stabilizer bars including integral stiffening ribs along their top edges; said ribs substantially wider than said fin portion; said base including a periphery extending around said stabilizer bar and said rib; integral fillets formed substantially around said periphery of said base; one or more openings in at least one of said integral stabilizer bars in said fin portion between said base and said distal end; and a removable cover secured across said access portal.