Multi-purpose frame for a computer

• US 5,306,079 A
• Filed: 10/08/1992
• Issued: 04/26/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 10/08/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Enlight Corporation
• Original Assignee: Enlight Corporation
• Inventors: Liu, Morgan C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Eley, Timothy V.
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, KHAN
• Application Number:
  US07/958,304
• Time in Patent Office: 565 Days
• Field of Search: 312/223.2, 312/257.1, 361/390, 361/391, 361/380, 361/427, 361/428, 361/429, 361/685, 364/708, 174/50.52, 174/65 R
• US Class Current: 312/223.2
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/183 Internal mounting support structures, e.g. for printed circuit boards, internal connecting means for buses G06F13/409

Abstract

A multi-purpose frame for a computer comprises floppy disk seats and hard disk seats. The front end of the frame is provided with side hooks, front hooks and a downward urging retainer. The side portion of the frame is provided with interface card hooks, and the rear lower portion thereof is provided with a pair of L-shaped strips. Each of the hard disk seats is provided with fastening hooks and a resilient retainer, and one of the floppy disk seats is provided with dovetail grooves having a recess located in therebetween. The frame facilitates the dismounting and replacing of the disk drives, and which may be mounted to or dismounted from the computer base conveniently.

Claims

1. A multi-purpose frame for a computer being substantially a rectangular box formed by two side walls, comprising a top floppy disk seat and a bottom floppy disk seat on a front part thereof, and at least one hard disk seat at a rear part thereof;

said top floppy disk seat having two inner walls of said side walls each provided with a fitting means, said hard disk having a support plate seat being provided with a plurality of projecting fastening hooks disposed thereon and at least one resilient retainer at a front edge thereof;

said front part of said frame having a pair of side hooks on two lateral sides of a front end thereof, a pair of projected outward front hooks at a lower portion of the front end thereof and a downward urging retainer at the lower portion located between the front hooks.

2. The multi-purpose frame as claimed in claim 1, wherein each of said fitting means comprises a pair of dovetail grooves having a recess located in therebetween.

3. The multi-purpose frame as claimed in claim 2, wherein said rear part of said frame is provided with at least one projection which projects downward at a rear end thereof and a pair of L-shaped strips supporting said hard disk seat at a bottom thereof.

4. The multi-purpose frame as claimed in claim 3 wherein the projection is formed of a body in the shape of a cross.

5. The multi-purpose frame as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a plurality of interface card hooks which are equidistantly spaced from each other and disposed on one of said side walls of said frame.

6. In a multi-purpose frame for a computer, the frame comprising a substantially rectangular box, a first floppy disk seat and a second floppy disk seat on a front portion of the box, and at least one hard disk seat at a rear portion of the box, the improvement wherein:

said first floppy disk seat has fitting means on each of two opposite side walls thereof;

said hard disk seat having a support plate with a plurality of projecting fastening hooks disposed thereon and at lest one resilient retainer at a front edge thereof; and

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said front portion of said box has a side hook positioned on each of opposite sides of a front end thereof as a pair of said side hooks, a pair of front hooks projected outward on a lower portion of said front end thereof and a downward urging retainer between said front hooks.

7. The multi-purpose frame as claimed in claim 6, wherein each of said fitting means comprises a pair of dovetail grooves and a recess between said grooves.

8. The multi-purpose frame as claimed in claim 6, wherein said box further comprises:

at least one projection that projects downward at a rear end of said rear portion and a pair of L-shaped strips at a bottom of said rear portion.

9. The multi-purpose frame as claimed in claim 8, wherein said box further comprises:

at least one projection that projects downward at a rear end of said rear portion and a pair of L-shaped strips at a bottom of said rear portion.

10. The multi-purpose frame as claimed in claim 8, wherein the projection is formed of a body in the shape of a cross.

11. The multi-purpose frame as claimed in claim 9, wherein said side walls of the projection is formed of a body in the shape of a cross.

12. The multi-purpose frame as claimed in claim 6, wherein said side walls of said box further comprises:

a plurality of interface card hooks equidistantly spaced from each other along one side of said box.

13. The multi-purpose frame as claimed in claim 7, wherein said side walls of said box further comprises:

a plurality of interface card hooks equidistantly spaced from each other along one side of said box.

14. The multi-purpose frame as claimed in claim 8, wherein said side walls of said box further comprises:

a plurality of interface card hooks equidistantly spaced from each other along one side of said box.

15. The multi-purpose frame as claimed in claim 9, wherein said side walls of said box further comprises:

a plurality of interface card hooks equidistantly spaced from each other along one side of said box.

16. The multi-purpose frame as claimed in claim 10, wherein said side walls of said box further comprises:

a plurality of interface card hooks equidistantly spaced from each other along one side of said box.

17. The multi-purpose frame as claimed in claim 11, wherein said side walls of said box further comprises:

a plurality of interface card hooks equidistantly spaced from each other along one side of said box.