Rotatable power center system

Details Rotatable power center system Rotatable power center system

1998-04-13

2000-02-22

Kincaid, Kristine

Electricity: conductors and insulators

Boxes and housings

With electrical device

174 55, 174 57, 220 37, 439139, 361610, 312 30, H01R 1346

Patent

active

060282673

ABSTRACT:
Embodiments of power center systems are provided which include manually operable and rotatable carriages. The rotatable carriages include component sections where electrical and communication components may be incorporated. The components include electrical receptacles and communications/data ports. The receptacles and data ports may be connected to incoming power and communication cables. When a carriage is rotated to an open position, power cords and communication lines may be connected to appropriate ones of the receptacles and data ports. Slack sections of the cords and lines may be placed within an open area below a work surface within which the power center system is placed. A cover portion of a carriage includes slots allowing the cords and lines to remain energized with the receptacles and data ports, when the cover is in a closed position. The carriages include covers having front and rear portions, rotatable relative to each other through hinges. The power center system includes pairs of cylindrical stubs extending outward at opposing sides of the carriages. The stubs rotatably rest on corresponding ones of receiving flanges located in the sides of stationary housings. With these configurations, an axis of rotation is provided for a carriage which is below a plane extending substantially through an upper portion of the stationary housing at the location of the cover.

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