US 11,777,293 B1
Ceiling fan brace bracket
Jeffrey P. Baldwin, Anthem, AZ (US)
Assigned to Titan3 Technology LLC, Phoenix, AZ (US)
Filed by Jeffrey P. Baldwin, Anthem, AZ (US)
Filed on Apr. 19, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/234,683.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/011,310, filed on Apr. 17, 2020.
Int. Cl. H02G 3/00 (2006.01); H02G 3/12 (2006.01); H02G 3/08 (2006.01); E04B 9/00 (2006.01); H02G 3/20 (2006.01); F16M 13/02 (2006.01)
CPC H02G 3/125 (2013.01) [E04B 9/006 (2013.01); H02G 3/08 (2013.01); F16M 13/027 (2013.01); H02G 3/20 (2013.01); Y10S 248/906 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A ceiling fan brace bracket assembly, comprising:
a bracket having a channel opening toward a bottom of the bracket and at least one lip extending along the channel, the channel having two sides, wherein the two sides of the channel are angled inward from a base of the channel toward the bottom of the bracket such that the channel is narrower adjacent the bottom of the bracket than at the base of the channel, the channel sized and shaped to extend around a ceiling fan brace;
at least two holes extending through the at least one lip, each of the at least two holes configured to align with a corresponding screw hole in an electrical box;
at least one first screw configured to extend downward through a first hole of the at least two holes and the corresponding screw hole in the electrical box and align the first hole with the corresponding screw hole, wherein the first hole is unthreaded, the at least one first screw is a press-fit screw configured to dig into and deform the bracket, and, when the at least one first screw extends through the first hole, a head of the at least one first screw is on a top of the bracket and a shaft of the at least one first screw extends down away from the bottom of the bracket;
at least one nut sized to threadedly couple with the at least one first screw and configured to hold the electrical box against the bottom of the bracket; and
at least one second screw configured to extend upward through a second hole of the at least two holes and the corresponding screw hole, wherein the electrical box is configured to couple to the bracket through the at least one second screw, and wherein when the at least one second screw extends through the second hole, a head of the at least one second screw is adjacent the bottom of the bracket and a shaft of the at least one second screw extends up away from the top of the bracket.