Cable organizer

• US 8,998,151 B2
• Filed: 12/21/2010
• Issued: 04/07/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ross Matthew Hoek
• Original Assignee: Ross Matthew Hoek
• Inventors: Hoek, Ross Matthew
• Primary Examiner(s): McKinnon, Terrell
• Assistant Examiner(s): Weinhold, Ingrid M
• Application Number:
  US12/974,885
• Publication Number:
  US 20110147542A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,568 Days
• Field of Search: 248/68.1, 248/49, 248/75, 248/74.2, 248/74.3, 174/72.A, 174/135, 211/85.13, D83/56, D24/128, 241/29.R, 241/30, 241/29.D, 241/15.A
• US Class Current: 248/68.1
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 3/223 each support having one transverse base for supporting the pipes F16L3/23, F16L3/237 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02G 3/32 using mounting clamps
• CPC Class Codes: H02G 9/025 Coverings therefor, e.g. tile

Abstract

A cable organizer including a front surface and a rear surface, wherein the front surface and the rear surface define a width therebetween; a first end and a second end, wherein the first end and the second end define a length therebetween; a bottom surface, wherein the bottom surface is adapted for placement proximate a work surface; a top surface, wherein the top surface comprises at least one aperture for receiving a cable therethrough, and wherein the top surface comprises at least one of a tab and detent which is controllably bendable, thereby facilitating releasable insertion of a cable into at least one cable channel such that the cable is retained in the at least one cable channel during normal use and removable by a user upon upward displacement of the cable by the user.

Claims

1. A cable organizer, consisting of:

a front surface and a rear surface, wherein the front surface and the rear surface define a width therebetween;

a first end and a second end, wherein the first end and the second end define a length therebetween;

a bottom surface, wherein the bottom surface is planar and contacts a surface;

a top surface, wherein the top surface includes an aperture for receiving a cable therethrough, wherein the aperture comprises a width that is greater proximate the front and rear surfaces than a midpoint therebetween, wherein the top surface is arcuate, and wherein the top surface includes at least one tab; and

at least one cable channel for receiving a cable therein, wherein the at least one cable channel emanates continuously from the front surface to the rear surface of the cable organizer, wherein the cable channel comprises a substantially triangular cross-section, wherein the at least one cable channel comprises a base member, an upper left side member, and an upper right side member, wherein the base member and the upper left side member form a first rounded arcuate corner, wherein the base member and the upper right side member form a second rounded arcuate corner, and wherein the upper left side member and the upper right side member are spaced apart from one another per the at least one aperture of the top surface, wherein the at least one tab is bendable during insertion of the cable through the aperture into the at least one cable channel.