Electrical outlet box

Claim 1

In an electrical outlet box having a wall structure providing front to rear wall means and a bottom wall interconnected therebetween, the front to rear wall means and bottom wall defining a chamber within the wall structure which opens through the front of the box, said wall means defining an outermost periphery of said box and including wall portions which are recessed inwardly from said periphery so as to define recessed areas extending along said periphery of said box, from the front to the rear of said box, said recessed areas housing cable entry port means for the passage of electrical power cable into said box chamber, said cable entry port means includes a generally rectangular aperture in said front to rear inwardly recessed wall portion extending upwardly from said bottom wall, a generally V-shaped opening in said bottom wall converging inwardly from the longitudinally extending side rims of said aperture and opening in a direction generally perpendicular to said front of said box, and closure panel means depending from the longitudinally extending side rims of said aperture and terminating in free end portions, said free end portions being separated by a distance which is less than the narrowest dimension of the electrical power cable to be inserted therein, said free end portions of said closure panel means adapted to deflect laterally away from one another upon passage of a cable into said aperture and to thereafter resistingly bear against the installed cable.