Box Proper????

[ibew441dc]

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Cutout Box. An enclosure designed for surface mounting that has swinging doors or covers secured directly to and telescoping with the walls of the box proper.

I am confident that I understand what a Cutout Box is and could easily pick it out of a line up...........but what the heck does box proper mean???

Telescoping with the walls of the the box proper........I'm guessing it means the cover overlaps the box part. Or maybe the box proper is the thing that holds it up.....

This question has been asked to me and I can't really give an educated answer... Anybody with a good idea of what the box proper is?

 

[Smart $]

...but what the heck does box proper mean???

The box proper is the part of the box other than the door(s) or cover(s).

As for the telescoping part...

?telescope
Function: verb
Inflected Form: -scoped ; -scop?ing
Date: 1867


intransitive verb
1 : to become forced together lengthwise with one part entering another as the result of collision
2 : to slide or pass one within another like the cylindrical sections of a collapsible hand telescope
3 : to become compressed or condensed
transitive verb
1 : to cause to telescope
2 : COMPRESS, CONDENSE <the book arbitrarily telescopes time and space, and as arbitrarily extends them ― Phoebe Adams>

 

[ericsherman37]

Box proper = the part of the box that is actually a box.

Sort of like a city proper is the actual city, within city limits... not the suburbs or metro area.

 

[Pierre C Belarge]

Box proper = the part of the box that is actually a box.

Sort of like a city proper is the actual city, within city limits... not the suburbs or metro area.

That is a good analogy, I was going to say the same.

 

[ibew441dc]

Good One!!

Good One!!

Box proper = the part of the box that is actually a box.

Sort of like a city proper is the actual city, within city limits... not the suburbs or metro area.

That is a good analogy...

I'll second that......very good analogy:smile:......, its simple and to the point:smile:

 

[e57]

I used to work with an all Irish crew - apart from myself, and after a few years I started to pick up the dialect/accent. And reading through much of the Code book, and later finding out how the code writing process worked I realized that while much of the code book follows a 'legalese' some (much of the older codes) are written in an older venacular. Some of the language throws back to the early 1900's - proper.

For instance I once had to explain the word "Yoke" to an inspector who was obviously of the ESL crowd - even though I'm sure some our EFL freinds have also had to hade it explained.

As for "Box - 'Proper'", might I suggest an evening with the movie "Snatch" with particular interest in the dog and rabbit scene.