MEDIA STORAGE CABINET

• US 3,844,416 A
• Filed: 12/05/1972
• Issued: 10/29/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 12/05/1972
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Frank Potter
• Original Assignee: Frank Potter
• Inventors: Potter, Frank
• Primary Examiner(s): Frazier, Roy D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Gibson, Jr., Robert W.
• Application Number:
  US05/312,349
• Time in Patent Office: 693 Days
• Field of Search: 211/162,94,94.5,118,148,176,177,182,183 108/106,107,108,109 312/107,108,183,257
• US Class Current: 211/162
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 47/02 made of metal only

Abstract

A media storage cabinet having fixed vertical posts therein, each formed with a vertical opening into the interior of the post. Vertical panel walls of the post adjacent the opening are each provided with a vertical row of bayonet slots, the arm portions of which communicate with the opening. Media supports for disk packs, tape reels and tape seals, printout binders, and the like are provided with hook elements engageable with the slots in such manner that the supports may be suspended at selected levels across co-planar walls of the posts or between the walls of opposed posts without dismantling the cabinet or removing the posts therefrom to do so; and the supports may be readily unhooked from their suspended positions.

Claims

1. A media storage cabinet of rectangular form comprising a group of posts each having a fixed upright vertical position in a separate corner of the cabinet;

the cabinet having parallel longitudinally extending opposed rails, and parallel laterally extending opposed rails;

each post comprising four vertical flat walls, a first wall of which extends inwardly into the cabinet, a second wall of which extends at right angles from the first wall and is fixed in parallel abutting relation to one of the laterally extending rails, a third wall of which extends at right angles from the second wall in opposed parallel relation to thE first wall and in fixed parallel abutting relation to one of the longitudinally extending rails, and a fourth wall of which extends inwardly into the cabinet at right angles from the third wall and in opposed parallel relation to the second wall, the first wall being shorter in its lateral dimension than the opposed third wall, the fourth wall being shorter in its lateral dimension than the opposed second wall, the first and fourth walls each having a vertical leading edge separated from the other by a space co-extensive with the length of the post, the space being a result of the said shorter lateral dimensions of the first and fourth walls, and each of the first and fourth walls having therein a vertical row of bayonet slots having arm portions which open horizontally through the leading edge of the related wall to the space;

the first wall of each post being disposed in co-planar relation with a corresponding first wall of a second post and also being disposed in parallel opposed relation to a corresponding first wall of a third post;

the fourth wall of each post being disposed in co-planar relation to a corresponding fourth wall of a second post and also being disposed in parallel opposed relation to a corresponding fourth wall of a third post;

a first media supporting bar having a hook extending from each end thereof, the hooks being slidably received into bayonet slots of opposed first walls of a selected pair of the posts through the arm portions of the slots;

a second media supporting bar having a hook extending from each end thereof, the latter hooks being slidably received into bayonet slots of opposed fourth walls of a selected pair of posts through the arm portions of the slots; and

said media supporting bars being slidably and selectively removable from the related bayonet slots by withdrawing the related hooked ends through the related arm portions of the slots without disturbing the fixed condition of the related posts.

2. A media storage cabinet as in claim 1, wherein one of the media supporting bars is in the form of a roller track.

3. A media storage cabinet as in claim 1, wherein one of the media supporting bars is in the form of a rack.

4. A media storage cabinet as in claim 1, wherein one of the media supporting bars is of angle form.

5. A media storage cabinet of rectangular form comprising a group of four posts each having a fixed upright vertical position in a separate corner of the cabinet;

the cabinet having parallel longitudinally extending opposed rails and parallel laterally extending opposed rails;

each post comprising four vertical flat walls, a first wall of which extends inwardly into the cabinet, a second wall of which extends at right angles from the first wall and is fixed in parallel abutting relation to one of the laterally extending rails, a third wall of which extends at right angles from the second wall in opposed parallel relation to the first wall and in fixed parallel abutting relation to one of the longitudinally extending rails, and a fourth wall of which extends inwardly into the cabinet at right angles from the third wall and in opposed parallel relation to the second wall, the first wall being shorter in its lateral dimension than the opposed third wall, the fourth wall being shorter in its lateral dimension than the opposed second wall, the first and fourth walls each having a vertical leading edge separated from the other by a space co-extensive with the length of the post, the space being a result of the said shorter lateral dimensions of the first and fourth walls, and each of the first and fourth walls having therein a vertical row of bayonet slots having arm portions which open horizontally through the leading edge of the related wall to the space;

the first wall of each post being disposed in co-planar relation to a corresponding first wall of a second post and also being disposed in parallel opposed relation to a corresponding first wall of a third post; and

the fourth wall of each post being disposed in co-planAr relation to a corresponding fourth wall of a second post and also being disposed in parallel opposed relation to a corresponding fourth wall of a third post.