Supports: cabinet structure – With movable components – Pivotal – fixed axis
Patent
1990-12-24
1994-04-19
Dorner, Kenneth J.
Supports: cabinet structure
With movable components
Pivotal, fixed axis
3121381, 312199, A47B 8800
Patent
active
053039963
ABSTRACT:
A cable or wire (information bus, power supply, etc.) retention method and apparatus for modular computer cabinets and the like in which the cabinet frame end walls have notch-like voids. The preferred embodiment for a cable retainer has a frame member with two cantilever portions, which frame member is spot-welded to several struts at other (non-cantilever) portions. The top and bottom struts protrude the frame member, and are longer than the distance between the cabinet end walls. The cable retainer is connected to the cabinet by inserting one pivoting strut tip into a receiving hole and causing the cantilever portion nearest the receiving hole to deform (causing deeper penetration of the inserted tip) so that a clearance is obtained between the other pivot end and its corresponding receiving hole, prior to releasing the cable retainer. Insertion is completed by pivoting the cable retainer to an upright position to latch the latching ends in cabinet end wall grooves.
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Daleo Carlo V.
Fischer, Jr. Robert W.
Fratis James
Hsu Sawyer C.
Valentine Sidney L.
Anderson Gerald
Dorner Kenneth J.
NCR Corporation
Penrod Jack R.
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