Patent ID: 8344248

Claim:
An electrical box comprising: a top side and a bottom side that are connected to one another by panels, each of the top side and bottom side including: a front portion with a side edge, a front edge and a back edge; a back portion with a side edge, a front edge and a back edge; and an angled portion connecting the front portion to the back portion, the back portion being offset with respect to the front portion, the angled portion including: a transition edge, of the angled portion, that joins the back edge of the front portion to the back edge of the back portion, wherein when mounting the electrical box on a wall stud inside a wall assembly, the back portions of the top and bottom sides are inserted through a hole in a drywall of the wall assembly and passed between an edge of the wall stud and an edge of the drywall and when the electrical box is rotated about the edge of the drywall of the wall assembly to position one of the back edges of the electrical box to the wall stud, the transition edges of the angled portions of the top side and the bottom side provide for clearance over the rotation of the electrical box unobstructed by the edge of the wall stud.