Patent ID: 6328177
Filing Date: 2001-12-11
Classification: H01R,H02G

Abstract:
A box for housing an electrical apparatus and adapted to be fitted into a hole in a wall, said box comprising:a body with a longitudinal axis and a flange proximate one longitudinal end of said body, said flange extending in a plane transverse to the longitudinal axis and being adapted to bear on an outer side of a wall into which said box is fitted; andat least one elastically deformable lug laterally projecting from said body at a position closer to the transverse plane than to a second longitudinal end of said body,said lug having a single root and two branches extending from said single root in generally opposed longitudinal directions therefrom, a first one of said branches having a free end extended longitudinally away from the transverse plane and a second one of said branches having a free end extended longitudinally toward the transverse plane and being shorter than said first one of said branches,at least one of said branches being engageable with a wall into which the box is fitted depending on a thickness of the wall.