Outlet box with adjustable mounting

Claim 1

An outlet box assembly comprising walls defining an outlet box, a bracket movably supported to the exterior of one wall of the box and having an arm extending from the box, which arm is constructed and arranged to be secured to a stud in a wall in which the assembly is to be installed, said bracket being mounted for movement by means wholly exterior of said outlet whereby said outlet box is substantially free of inwardly extending projections from said mounting means, a drive screw lying wholly outside the interior of the box, said drive screw being mounted at its ends to a pair of spaced lugs extending outwardly from a side wall of said outlet box, and being freely rotatable within said lugs along an axis spaced from and paralleling said side wall, said end of said bracket which is adjacent said outlet box including a member disposed between said screw supporting lugs, said member receiving said screw therethrough and threaded engagement therewith whereby rotation of said screw may permit relative movement of said outlet box and said bracket, said member including a surface oriented substantially parallel to and in sliding engagement with said side wall of said outlet box, said movement between said outlet box and said bracket being limited by engagement with said member with said lugs.