Patent ID: 6462278
Filing Date: 2002-10-08
Classification: H02G

Abstract:
For an electrical box having an open front, mounting an electrical device, and having a plaster ring, which fastens to the electrical box, around the open front of the electrical box, and which has a projecting portion defining a generally rectangular aperture providing access to the electrical device, through the open front of the electrical box, after the electrical box, the electrical device, and the plaster ring have been installed behind a flange panel, a protective cover mountable removably to the plaster ring so as at least substantially to cover the generally rectangular aperture of the plaster ring, whereby to protect the electrical device against foreign matter, damage, or both while an aperture accommodating the projecting portion of the plaster ring is cut into the flange panel or while the flange panel is being decorated near the aperture accommodating the projecting portion of the plaster ring, the protective cover having a front panel, a top flange, a bottom flange, and two lateral flanges, wherein the top flange has a flat, central portion and two first lateral portions, each first lateral portion curving downwardly to a lower edge, which is spaced by a slit from an upper edge of one of the lateral flanges, and the bottom flange has a flat, central portion and two second lateral portions, each second lateral portion curving upwardly to an upper edge, which is spaced by a slit from a lower edge of one of the lateral flanges, the slits permitting the lateral flanges to flex.