Stateless cord management device

• US 9,788,095 B2
• Filed: 03/17/2015
• Issued: 10/10/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cal T. Demier
• Original Assignee: Cal T. Demier
• Inventors: Demier, Cal T.
• Primary Examiner(s): Sandy, Robert J
• Assistant Examiner(s): Mercado, Louis
• Application Number:
  US14/660,194
• Publication Number:
  US 20150189420A1
• Time in Patent Office: 938 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/1033 Cables or cables storage, e.g. cable reels cord reels per se H02G11/02; arrangements for storing and repeatedly paying-out and re-storing lengths of conductors or cables B65H75/34; extensible conductors or cables, e.g. self-coiling cords H01B7/06
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/39 Cord and rope holders
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/3907 Sheathed strand

Abstract

A stateless cord management device for storage and deployment of a cord, cable, or wire including a body having a sidewall with oppositely disposed open ends. A channel is at least partially defined by the sidewall and disposed therethrough between the oppositely disposed open ends. An access opening extends longitudinally along and through the sidewall between the oppositely disposed open ends of the sidewall. The access opening is at least partially defined by cooperatively disposed and abutting free ends of the sidewall, the free ends being at least partially separable from one another permitting access into the channel. A retention member extends into the channel along its width thereby at least partially defining a retention member recess for receipt and retention of at least a portion of a cord, cable, or wire therein.

Claims

1. A stateless cord management device for storage and deployment of a cord having a connector attached to at least one end thereof, said device comprising:

a body comprising a sidewall having a pair of oppositely disposed open ends,

said sidewall comprising a substantially cylindrical configuration,

an elongated channel at least partially defined by said sidewall and disposed therethrough between said pair of oppositely disposed open ends,

said elongated channel comprising a length at least partially defined by a distance between said pair of oppositely disposed open ends,

said elongated channel having a cylindrical configuration defining an effective diameter of said elongated channel, said length of said elongated channel is greater than said effective diameter of said elongated channel,

a plurality of retention members each having a length and a width, wherein each of said plurality of retention members extends into said channel from oppositely disposed portions of said sidewall towards one another, wherein said plurality of retention members are disposed in a substantially coplanar orientation with one another, and

said plurality of retention members and said sidewall at least partially defining a retention member recess, wherein a portion of the cord is disposable into a retained relation between said retention members and said sidewall in said retention member recess.

2. The device as recited in claim 1 wherein each of said plurality of retention members further comprise a distal end.

3. The device as recited in claim 2 further comprising a retention member gap at least partially defined by a gap distance between said distal ends of said plurality of retention members.

4. The device as recited in claim 3 wherein said retention member gap is dimensioned to substantially restrict unassisted passage of the cord through said retention member gap.

5. The device as recited in claim 1 wherein said length of said elongated channel is at least twice said effective diameter of said elongated channel.

6. The device as recited in claim 1 wherein said length of said elongated channel is at least three times said effective diameter of said elongated channel.