Patent ID: 8215597

Claim:
In an electrical box support formed of sheet metal and adapted to extend between a pair of wall studs and support an electrical box, said electrical box support having on each of opposite ends a tab adapted for being attached to a respective one of said studs, each said tab comprising: (a) a planar metal sheet integral with and extending outwardly of said support; (b) at least one transverse bend line recognized as a line along which said tab can be field bent; and (c) on at least one side of each said transverse bend line at least one indentation, each said indentation being referred to here as a “score” and wherein each said score: (i) penetrates the surface of said planar metal sheet along a major portion of said score's boundary; (ii) has one substantially straight sheared edge created by the application of force comprising a shear force, sufficient to have caused said substantially straight sheared edge to at least partially fracture along said substantially straight sheared edge coinciding with at least part of said bend line; (iii) has an unsheared edge located substantially parallel to and opposite said straight sheared edge; and (iv) comprises a region of the planar metal sheet that has been at least partially weakened by the shear force applied to said sheared edge, thereby facilitating said tab being field bent along said bend line, and when necessary after being bent to be straightened and re-bent without further fracturing of the metal comprising said tab; and (d) for a bed line defined by multiple scores, said opposite edge of every score that defines said bend line lies on the same side of said bend line.