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Safety apparatus for electrical equipment rack

  • US 10,582,772 B2
  • Filed: 07/10/2019
  • Issued: 03/10/2020
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/04/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A safety apparatus for an electrical equipment rack, the rack comprising extendable rails for mounting electrical equipment units, the extendable rails allowing the electrical equipment units to be extended on the extendable rails from a position internal to the rack to a position external to the rack, and retractable rack supports which when extended from raised inoperative positions to lowered operative positions support the rack on a surface, the safety apparatus comprising:

  • a retractable safety device for preventing, when in an operational position, the extending of at least one of said extendable rails from a position internal to the rack to a position external to the rack, and for allowing the extending of the extendable rail when in a non-operational position, the position of the retractable safety device being linked to the position of one of said retractable rack supports such that;

    when the retractable rack support is lowered in the lowered operative position to support the rack, the retractable safety device is in the non-operational position; and

    when the retractable rack support is raised in the raised inoperative position the retractable safety device is in the operational position preventing the extending of the extendable rail to a position external to the rack.

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