Adapter fitting for connecting flexible conduit to electrical outlet boxes

Claim 1

An electrical conductor protective system comprising, in combination: an electrical outlet box having at least one side wall defining a substantially circular opening through the one side wall and into the interior of the box; an adapter fitting projecting through the circular opening through the side wall of the box and interlocked with said side wall, said adapter fitting including: a pair of semi-cylindrical fitting halves each having a concave inner side and a convex outer side, and having a first end and having a second end, each of said two fitting halves further including: a neck portion terminating at said first end and extending through the circular opening in the side wall of the box; means preventing the neck portion from moving through said opening beyond a certain specific degree of passage therethrough; a conduit-receiving portion extending from said neck portion to the second end of said fitting half, and having an external surface of greater diameter than the external diameter of said neck portion; a pair of opposed, axially extending, substantially monoplanar, smooth, parallel, uninterrupted side edges extending from the first end thereof to the second end thereof, said side edges in each of said pairs lying in a common plane and slidingly abutting the pair of side edges of the other of said fitting halves whereby said semi-cylindrical fitting halves may be slid axially relative to each other as said opposed side edges slide against each other to thereby axially offset one of the fitting halves relative to the other and thereby cause said neck portion of one said semi-cylindrical fitting halves to project a shorter distance into said electrical outlet box than the other of said neck portions projects thereinto to facilitate connecting electrical conductors to terminals within said electrical outlet box; a radially inwardly projecting, circumferentially extending rib carried on the concave inner side of the respective fitting half; and a flexible, synthetic resin corrugated conduit including a plurality of contiguous circular ridges each separated from the two adjacent circular ridges by a pair of grooves, at least one of said grooves receiving one of said radially inwardly projecting ribs to retain said corrugated conduit interlocked with said adapter fitting in a preselected position relative to said box.