Equipment cabinet stand
First Claim
1. A stand for supporting an enclosure, comprising:
- a base having a planar, rectangular bottom wall and two spaced-apart planar upstanding walls, said upstanding walls extending normally away from said bottom wall at opposite edges thereof, said bottom wall and upstanding walls forming a space in which said enclosure is to be received; and
two spaced-apart elongated feet each configured along only one longitudinal edge in a manner allowing the foot to be mated with said base with either an inward or an outward orientation, each foot being removably attached to said bottom wall of said base adjacent to and substantially parallel to a corresponding one of said opposite edges with either said inward or said outward orientation, each foot being sufficiently wide to extend beyond the corresponding one of said opposite edges when oriented outwardly and being sufficiently narrow to avoid interfering with the other foot when oriented inwardly.
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Abstract
An equipment cabinet employs a rack-mountable equipment enclosure surrounded by a base, a cap, and front and rear covers. Each cover consists of a bezel and a door reversibly mounted thereon via removable hinge pins. The bezels have sidewalls that rest against ledges on the edges of the enclosure to receive support therefrom. The door has a centrally-located latch, the latch having a pawl with an eccentric catch portion that engages a latch opening on a ledge extending from the bezel. The pawl also has a tab that rests between the ends of an arcuate raised portion on the rear of the door to limit the rotational travel of the pawl. The base, cap, and covers are configured so that the enclosure is surrounded by hollows forming a peripheral passageway for cabling and the like. The base and cap have front and rear handle-like projections through which cables may be routed, and the covers have inward-facing snap tabs that engage the handle-like projections to secure the covers to the base and cap. The covers also have side access panels for inter-cabinet cabling. Clips are used to secure adjacent cabinets together; these clips attach to the handle-like projections and also pass through the access openings. Each clip is made of stamped sheet metal bent to have a C-shaped body and central spacing members. The ends of the clip have bent tips to retain the clip when installed, and the spacing members cooperate with the ends to maintain fixed separation between adjacent cabinets. The cabinet also has elongated L-shaped feet that may be installed with either an outward orientation to minimize any tendency of a single unit to tip over, or with an inward orientation to enable adjacent cabinets to be closely spaced without interference between their feet.
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22 Claims
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1. A stand for supporting an enclosure, comprising:
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a base having a planar, rectangular bottom wall and two spaced-apart planar upstanding walls, said upstanding walls extending normally away from said bottom wall at opposite edges thereof, said bottom wall and upstanding walls forming a space in which said enclosure is to be received; and two spaced-apart elongated feet each configured along only one longitudinal edge in a manner allowing the foot to be mated with said base with either an inward or an outward orientation, each foot being removably attached to said bottom wall of said base adjacent to and substantially parallel to a corresponding one of said opposite edges with either said inward or said outward orientation, each foot being sufficiently wide to extend beyond the corresponding one of said opposite edges when oriented outwardly and being sufficiently narrow to avoid interfering with the other foot when oriented inwardly. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A stand for supporting an enclosure, comprising:
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a base having a planar, rectangular bottom wall and two spaced-apart planar upstanding walls, said upstanding walls extending normally away from said bottom wall at opposite edges thereof, said bottom wall and upstanding walls forming a space in which said enclosure is to be received, said base having a pair of spaced-apart receptacles along each of said opposite edges, said base also having projections extending from both ends thereof in a plane generally parallel to and closely spaced from the plane of said bottom wall, each projection having a horizontal notch to receive a clip used to secure said base to a similar base to be placed alongside thereof, each projection also having a tab adjacent to said notch to catchingly secure said clip to said projection; and two spaced-apart elongated feet attached to said base, each of said feet having an L-shaped cross section and two spaced-apart posts along a raised longitudinal edge enabling the foot to be attached to said base with either an inward or an outward orientation, said posts corresponding and conforming to said receptacles of said base, the posts of said feet each being inserted in a corresponding one of said receptacles so that each foot has either said inward or said outward orientation, each foot being sufficiently wide to extend beyond the corresponding one of said opposite edges when oriented outwardly and being sufficiently narrow to avoid interfering with the other foot when oriented inwardly.
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Specification