Joseph R Morin

US Patent:

20080135131, Jun 12, 2008

Filed:

Dec 7, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/634974

Inventors:

Joseph A. Morin - New Hampton NH, US

International Classification:

B27C 5/00

US Classification:

14414451

Abstract:

The router guide for electrical box cutouts facilitates the forming of openings for electrical outlet and switch boxes and the like in a solid wall structure. The guide includes a template, which is temporarily secured to the wall structure and aligned with previously marked lines indicating the location of the previously formed conduit passages within the solid structure. The template includes one or more electrical box pattern openings formed therethrough. A router attachment plate is attached to a router, with the plate having a fixed collar concentric with the router bit. The router is used to cut the opening in the wall, with the collar of the router plate following the inner edge of the template pattern to form a precisely dimensioned opening for the installation of the electrical box therein. The router guide is particularly useful in log construction, but may be used with other solid structures as well.

US Patent:

20080148586, Jun 26, 2008

Filed:

Dec 21, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/642677

Inventors:

Joseph A. Morin - New Hampton NH, US

International Classification:

G01B 1/00

US Classification:

33528

Abstract:

The installation gauge for electrical fixtures is a device for spacing or positioning a ceiling fixture at the proper height or depth relative to the interior or finish surface of the uninstalled wallboard or ceiling paneling during building construction. The gauge includes a pair of opposed gripping members, which secure temporarily to two spaced apart adjacent structural members, and an elongate flat plate extending there between. The plate is offset from the gripping members by an amount equal to the thickness of the uninstalled paneling in order to position an electrical fixture placed thereon at the proper height. The gripping members, in a first embodiment, are pairs of resilient plates configured to grip strapping members attached to the ceiling joists. The gripping members, in a second embodiment, are two opposed resilient members generally normal to the central plate, which resiliently grip the sides of two adjacent joists.