GB1465578A - Cover assembly for electrical wires and cables - Google Patents

Abstract

1465578 Cable ducting F SCHMIDIGER 2 May 1974 19423/74 Heading H2C A cover assembly for electrical wires and cables comprises a hollow cover board 20 and means 5, which may be fastened to a wall 4, for holding the cover board by a detachable connection, and in which the cover board when connected conceals both the holding means and the electrical cables, the holding means comprises a plurality of supports 15 that are spaced apart in use and screws 24 whose heads are accessible from the outside of the cover board and which co-operate with the cover board and the supports so that the board can be displaced vertically with respect to the supports as long as the screws are loosened and so that the cover board can be fixed at a desired vertical position by tightening the screws, the cover board has a flat portion extending longitudinally for directly mounting electrical switches or distributing elements on to the cover board The hollow cover plate 20 which may have internal cable troughs 31, 32 moulded on to it. The holding plate has vertical fingers 15 on which a clamp 17 slides threaded to take fixing screws 24 passing through the cover so that the cover can be moved vertically and fixed in many positions to allow for the thickness of floor coverings 19, &c. The fingers on the holding plate may be slideable horizontally in grooves 16 or they may be integrally formed, Fig. 7, with a brazing spring 39 to raise the cover to its highest position on loosening the screws 24. A separate cable trough 10 may rest on a horizontal extension 8 of the holding plate, the end of the extension may be frangible (Fig. 4, not shown) to locate the cover according to the thickness of plaster. The cover has facing grooves 22, 23 in which spring clips 41 or strengthening apertured strips (25, Fig. 6, not shown) can be located. Switches, outlets 27 can be fixed through the cover wall and held by stop springs 28.