Electrical box ground screw mounting

Claim 1

In an electrical box having a plurality of side walls and a bottom wall formed to contain a piece of electrical paraphernalia, said box including at least one wall with a flat portion containing a threaded hole therein for receiving a ground screw having a head sufficiently large to hold down a ground lead placed thereunder, the improvement comprising: said flat portion comprising a relatively small part of said one wall and being formed therefrom into a canted relationship relative to the rest of said one wall, a discreet part of said one wall being depressed relative to the rest of said one wall as a result of said canting and forming entrapment means between said flat portion and the rest of said one wall for guiding said ground lead adjacent said threaded hole when said ground screw is contained loosely therein, and for preventing said ground lead from escaping from under the head of said ground screw as the screw is tightened down on the ground lead, said flat portion being sufficiently canted relative to said one wall such that a perpendicular thereto intersects no other box wall.