Electrical junction box with eccentric sockets in a common boss

Claim 1

A JUNCTION BOX HAVING A HUB-FORMING ELEMENT FOR OPTIONALLY ACCOMMODATING EITHER OF TWO DIFFERENT TYPES OF CONDUIT, SAID HUB-FORMING ELEMENT HAVING AN OPENING AT ITS INNER END WHICH COMMUNICATES WITH THE INTERIOR OF THE JUNCTION BOX, SAID HUB-FORMING ELEMENT ALSO HAVING A FIRST SOCKET OF CIRCULAR CROSS-SECTIONAL SHAPE FORMED THEREIN OUTWARDLY WITH RESPECT TO THE OPENING, SAID HUBFORMING ELEMENT FURTHER HAVING A SECOND SOCKET OF CIRCULAR CROSS-SECTIONAL SHAPE FORMED THEREIN IN AXIALLY OUTWARD RELATION TO, AND OPENING ENDWISE INTO, THE FIRST SOCKET, SAID SECOND SOCKET BEING OF LARGER DIAMETER THAN THE FIRST SOCKET, SAID SOCKETS HAVING THEIR RESPECTIVE LONGITUDINAL CENTERLINES IN SPACED PARALLEL RELATION, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN SAID CENTERLINES BEING SUBSTANTIALLY EQUAL TO THE DIFFERENCE IN THE RESPECTIVE INSIDE DIAMETRAL SIZES OF SAID SOCKETS SO THAT THE INNERMOST SURFACES OF SAID SOCKETS ARE TANGENT TO A COMMON AXIAL LINE, THEREBY ESTABLISHING A SINGLE AXIALLY CONTINUOUS CLAMPING LAND COMMON TO BOTH SOCKETS, AND MEANS OPERATIVELY MOUNTED IN THE HUB-FORMING ELEMENT FOR COOPERATION WITH THE FIRST SOCKET FOR RETAINING ONE TYPE OF CONDUIT IN THE FIRST SOCKET, SAID SECOND SOCKET HAVING MEANS FOR OPTIONALLY RETAINING ANOTHER TYPE OF CONDUIT IN SAID SECOND SOCKET.