Patent ID: 8937247
Filing Date: 2015-01-20
Classification: H02G,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An electrical device mounting box assembly, comprising: an electrical device mounting box comprising four side walls bordering a front opening; two box screw mounts extending into the box from at least one of the four side walls; a device mounting plate comprising two box screw mounting apertures aligned with and coupled to the two box screw mounts by screws, a first side, a second side opposite the first side, an unthreaded device screw aperture extending through the device mounting plate, and a flexible screw coupler extending outwardly from the second side of the device mounting plate, the flexible screw coupler comprising an oblong coupling aperture having a longitudinal dimension with a first longitudinal end and a second longitudinal end and a length greater than a diameter of a coupling screw, a threaded portion on said first longitudinal end of said coupling aperture aligned with the unthreaded device screw aperture such that when a screw passes through the unthreaded device screw aperture and the coupling aperture, the screw threadedly engages with the flexible screw coupler at the coupling aperture.