Electrical cable access grommet

• US 5,050,267 A
• Filed: 08/31/1990
• Issued: 09/24/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/1990
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Thomas A. Quest
• Original Assignee: Thomas A. Quest
• Inventors: Quest, Thomas A.
• Primary Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Application Number:
  US07/576,364
• Time in Patent Office: 389 Days
• Field of Search: 174/48, 174/65 G, 174/152 G, 174/153 G, 16/2, 248/56, 312/223, 379/438, D 8/356, D 8/400
• US Class Current: 174/152.00G
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 21/06 characterised by means for holding, fastening or concealing cables
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 2200/0082 Cable inlet in worktop or desk, e.g. grommet

Abstract

For protectively and aesthetically surroundably lining various sizes of office furniture rectangular openings for upwardly emergent electrical cords, there is provided an apt and unusually readily universally installable escutcheon grommet. The escutcheon grommet has two transversely extending end-panels for abuttable attachment to two opposed upright-ends of the furniture opening and each is centrally provided with an end-ledge, has a longitudinally extending and cross-sectionally regular rear-panel of selectable length and which is abuttable at a third end of the furniture opening and which is removably attachable to the end-panels, and has a cover-plate removably restable upon the end-ledges and rear-panel and having a convex fore-end for non-chafably confronting the upwardly emergent electrical cords. If the office furniture rectangular opening has a tangibly fully-closed fourth end, there is a grommet front-panel thereat and provided with a convex trailing-face so that the upwardly emergent electrical cord or cords are locatable in non-chafing condition between the cover-plate fore-end and the front-panel trailing-face.

Claims

1. Electrical cable access grommet for use in office furniture having a rectangular opening through which at least one electrical cable extends vertically therethrough, said furniture rectangular opening including a pair of directionally longitudinally extending upright-sides and a pair of directionally transversely extending upright-ends, said electrical cable access grommet comprising:

(A) a pair of upright and transversely extending end-panels, each having a similar finite transverse-length, and comprising;

(Ai) an upright lead-face for uprightly confronting a rectangular opening upright-end,

(Aii) an upright trail-face provided with a horizontally extending end-ledge,

(Aiii) located above said end-ledge and in an angular relationship to said lead-face, and end-flange adapted to downwardly rest upon said office furniture, and

(Aiv) said end-panel below said end-ledge being apertured to accommodate a horizontally extending fastener for fastening to said rectangular opening upright-end;

(B) a longitudinally extending upright rear-panel confronting the trail-faces of the two end-panels and removably attached thereto, said rear-panel comprising;

(Bi) an upright leadward-face for uprightly confronting a rectangular opening upright-side,

(Bii) an upright trailward-face provided with a horizontally extending side-ledge, and

(Biii) located above said side-ledge and in an angular relationship to said leadward-face, a side-flange adapted to downwardly rest upon said office furniture; and

(C) a horizontal, rectangular, and removably positioned cover-plate comprising;

(Ci) a pair of transversely extending plate-ends, each plate-end having a transverse-extent less than said transverse-length and resting downwardly upon a said end-ledge,

(Cii) a longitudinally extending aft-end resting downwardly upon said side-ledge, and

(Ciii) a linearly generated, upright, longitudinally extending fore-end, whereby said at least one vertically extending electrical cable is locatable adjacently externally of said fore-end.

2. The electrical cable access grommet of claim 1 wherein there is a longitudinally extending upright front-panel confronting the trail-faces of the two end-panels and removably attached thereto, said front-panel comprising:

an upright leading-face for uprightly confronting the remaining upright-side of said furniture rectangular opening;

a side-flange in angular relationship to said leading-face and adapted to downwardly rest upon said office furniture; and

an upright trailing-face spaced transversely away from said cover-plate fore-end, whereby said two end-flanges and said two side-flanges provide an escutcheon for said office furniture rectangular opening and the said at least one vertically extending electric cable is locatable between the cover-plate fore-end and the front-panel.

3. The electrical cable access grommet of claim 2 wherein the rear-panel trailward-face in confrontation with the two end-panels is contoured to receive a pin-type attachment means extending between the rear-panel and the two end-panels;

and wherein the front-panel trailing-face in confrontation with the two end-panels is contoured to recieve a pin-type attachment means extending between the front-panel and the two end-panels.

4. The electrical cable access grommet of claim 3 wherein the cover-plate fore-end is of convex linearly generated contour.

5. The electrical cable access grommet of claim 1 wherein the rear-panel trailward-face in confrontation with the two end-panels is contoured to receive a pin-type attachment means extending between the rear-panel and the two end-panels.

6. The electrical cable access grommet of claim 5 wherein the cover-plate fore-end is of convex linearly generated contour.