Patent ID: 8912439

Claim:
An apparatus for installing an electrical connection at a junction box mounted in a wall, said apparatus comprising: a plate assembly, comprising: a generally planar flange portion sized to extend over and around said junction box over a surface of said wall and having a front side for receiving a layer of wall surface material thereover; a receiver opening formed in said flange portion at said front surface thereof; and a receptacle portion on a rear side of said flange portion and having said receiver opening at a front end thereof, said receptacle portion being sized to be received in said junction box in said wall; and at least one electrical component, comprising: a body portion that is insertable through said receiver opening in said flange portion of said plate assembly so as to be received in said receptacle portion in cooperating engagement therewith; at least one connection on said body portion that is connectable to an electrical lead in said junction box; and an operative portion on a distal end of said body portion that is exposed at said opening in said flange portion when said body portion is received in said receptacle portion of said plate assembly; so that when said plate assembly is mounted over said junction box and said flange portion is finished over with a layer of wall surface material substantially only said operative portion of said electrical component received in said receptacle portion of said plate assembly will be visibly distinguishable at said surface of said wall.