Data processing equipment enclosures

• US 4,589,712 A
• Filed: 05/17/1984
• Issued: 05/20/1986
• Est. Priority Date: 08/25/1977
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hastech, Inc. (Linamar Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Otis H. Hastings
• Inventors: Hastings, Otis H.
• Primary Examiner(s): Sakran, Victor N.
• Application Number:
  US06/611,401
• Time in Patent Office: 733 Days
• Field of Search: 312/236, 312/223, 312/125, 312/135, 312/305, 312/31, 312/31.01-31.06, 312/312, 109/2, 109/4, 109/7, 109/48, 62/337, 261/30, 261/106, 34/15, 34/201, 34/227, 34/243 R
• US Class Current: 312/236
• CPC Class Codes: E05G 5/02 Trapping or confining mechanisms, e.g. transaction security boothsthief or burglar incapacitating means in general G08B15/00
• CPC Class Codes: E05G 7/00 Safety transaction partitions, e.g. movable pay-plates; Bank drive-up windowsnon-safety paying counters, e.g. for supermarkets A47F9/02; secure depositories for food A47G29/14; secure transfers between a building and a vehicle B60P3/03
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 3/903 consisting of arcuate wings revolving around a parallel axis situated outside the wing, e.g. a cylindrical wing revolving around its axis E06B3/906 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 19/20 Automatic teller machines [ATMs]
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 19/205 Housing aspects of ATMs

Abstract

A transaction processing enclosure for housing of electronic data processing equipment and the like, comprising a frame rack assembly formed of hollow conduit support members, arranged at spaced intervals to provide a unitary support structure adapted to receive and store electronic data processing equipment and the like; the hollow support members being interconnected to permit distribution of a fluid thereto with emission therefrom along the course of the hollow support members into the enclosure in combination with a turntable mounted to support the frame rack assembly and affect rotation thereof within said enclosure.

Claims

1. A transaction processing enclosure for housing of electronic data processing equipment, components thereof and the like comprising, in combination, an enclosure and a frame disposed therein comprising hollow conduit support members arrayed at spaced intervals to provide a unitary support structure adapted to receive and store said data processing equipment and components;

a plurality of said hollow support members being interconnected in a manner such as to distribute a fluid therethrough.

2. A transaction processing enclosure as claimed in claim 1, wherein said hollow conduit support members are adapted to emit said fluid into said enclosure.

3. A transaction processing enclosure as claimed in claim 1, wherein said hollow conduit support elements are adapted to transmit a gaseous fluid.

4. A transaction processing enclosure as claimed in claim 1, comprising, in combination, a turntable adapted to support said frame;

and effect rotation thereof within said enclosure.

5. A transaction processing enclosure as claimed in claim 4, wherein said turntable includes a platform movably affixed thereto, upon which said frame is mounted;

said platform being adapted to extend in at least one direction and to or beyond said access means.

6. A transaction processing enclosure as claimed in claim 5, wherein means are provided to integrate the opening of the closure means provided in said enclosure with the passage of said movable platform from the interior of said enclosure therethrough.

7. A transaction processing enclosure as claimed in claim 1, wherein said conduit members include ports for emission of gaseous fluid substantially uniformly throughout said enclosure.

8. A transaction processing enclosure as claimed in claim 7, wherein said fluid is a coolant medium so that the interior of said enclosure is maintained at a uniform temperature throughout.

9. A transaction processing enclosure as claimed in claim 1, wherein said frame comprises a lattice of interconnecting and spaced hollow conduit support members.

10. A transaction processing enclosure as claimed in claim 9, wherein said lattice comprises a plurality of substantially horizontal conduit members and substantially vertical members interconnected in a manner to distribute a gaseous fluid through said frame.

11. A transaction processing enclosure as claimed in claim 1, wherein said enclosure includes fluid inlet means connected to a fluid distributor manifold located within said enclosure and separated from said frame but interconnected therewith through a plurality of extensible conduits.

12. A transaction processing enclosure as claimed in claim 1, wherein said spaced conduit members are randomly spaced.

13. A transaction processing enclosure as claimed in claim 1, wherein said spaced conduits members are regularly spaced.

14. A transaction processing enclosure as claimed in claim 7, wherein means in the form of ports are provided for emission of fluid from said frame into said enclosure;

and said ports are present in greater frequency at the upper end of said frame to accommodate the tendency of warm gaseous fluids to rise within said enclosure.

15. A transaction processing enclosure as claimed in claim 11, wherein said distributor manifold is fixedly mounted within said enclosure and said frame is adapted to rotate within said enclosure and for lateral movement therein.

16. A transaction processing enclosure as claimed in claim 15, wherein said conduits are extensible and flexible.

17. A transaction processing enclosure as claimed in claim 1, wherein said enclosure includes means for removal of fluid from the interior of said enclosure.

18. A transaction processing enclosure as claimed in claim 1, wherein said enclosure includes means for passage of electrical cables between the exterior and interior of said enclosure.

19. A transaction processing enclosure as claimed in claim 18, wherein said means for passage of electrical cables includes means for holding excess lengths of cable under a predetermined resilient load whereby said cables are able to move in a preselected path for storage in response to movement of the components to which said cables are connected and which are stored in said enclosure.

20. A transaction processing enclosure as claimed in claim 1, wherein said enclosure includes means for holding, transmitting and distributing electrical cables connecting the equipment components contained within said frame in said enclosure with a power source external to said enclosure under a predetermined resilient load which permits the contained equipment components to be moved with said cables intact without applying to said cables a tensional load such as to interrupt the electrical connection between said components and said power source.

21. A transaction processing enclosure as claimed in claim 1, wherein said enclosure includes means for holding an excess length of cable connecting said equipment components contained therein in electrical contact with a power source outside of said enclosure and distributing said cables in a tortuous path under a predetermined resilient load which enables the components to which the cables are connected to be moved within said enclosure on said frame to a position outside of said enclosure without at the same time applying to said cables a tensional stress which may interrupt electrical contact between said equipment components and said power source.

22. A transaction processing enclosure as claimed in claim 1, wherein said cable transmitting means permits said equipment components to be moved with said cables intact but under a tensional load which may not exceed the fracture point of said cables.

23. A transaction processing enclosure as claimed in claim 1 wherein at least one flexible sheet is attached at one end to the upper end of said housing in a compacted state frame disposed within said housing.

24. A transaction processing enclosure as claimed in claim 1 wherein said hollow conduit support members include ports for emission of gaseous fluid from said frame into said enclosure;

and wherein said enclosure includes means for removal of fluid from said enclosure.

25. A transaction process enclosure as claimed in claim 3, wherein said transaction processing enclosure includes means for restoring said fluid to a state as to composition and temperature approximating that in which it was previously emitted from said ports into said enclosure and for recycling of said fluid through said conduit support members, ports and enclosures.

26. An article of furniture comprising at least one tier of a plurality of transaction processing enclosures for housing of electronic data processing equipment, components thereof and the like wherein each of said enclosures comprises, in combination, includes a frame comprising hollow conduit support members arrayed at spaced intervals to provide a unitary support structure adapted to receive and store said data processing equipment and components thereof;

a number of said hollow conduit support members being interconnected in a manner such as to permit distribution of a fluid therethrough for contact with said equipment and components.

27. An article of furniture as claimed in claim 26, wherein hollow conduits are incorporated for transmitting gaseous fluid from a source exterior to said article of furniture to the hollow conduit support members of said frame.