Title: Utility box locator

Abstract: A locator for a utility box mountable to a stud with a box rim of preselected perimeter size and shape about a box opening facing a sheet of wallboard. The locator includes a support snuggly mounted to the utility box from which a locator pin projects, and a template of perimeter size and shape approximating that of the box rim and formed with an aperture sized to receive the locator pin. A method of locating a utility box overlaid with wallboard includes the steps of providing a projection on the utility box, overlaying the utility box with wallboard, puncturing the wallboard with the projection, placing a template over the wallboard with the projection extending through a template opening, and marking the wallboard about the template.

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Inventors: Glovier, Lloyd H.

Application Number: 922564
Filing Date: 1978-07-07
Publication_date: 1980-06-24
Assignee:
Primary Class(es): 220/3.4 33/528, 33/DIG10
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US Patent Ref:

1653251	Dec, 1927	Boyton	220/3.
2775812	Jan, 1957	Mohr	33/189.
2788151	Apr, 1957	Shore	220/3.
2898688	Aug, 1959	Cottar	33/174.
2990172	Jun, 1961	Gianotta	33/DIG.
3260400	Jul, 1966	Miles	220/3.
3888013	Jun, 1975	Benoit	33/DIG.
3924331	Dec, 1975	Goosen	33/DIG.
4059905	Nov, 1977	Wieting	33/DIG.

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Primary Examiner: Shoap, Allan N.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney: Kennedy; Robert B.