Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide hinging and latching hardware and arrangements for enclosures for electronic components. In one embodiment, first and second brackets can be secured to an enclosure frame on first and second sides, respectively, of a door opening. Both brackets can be configured to receive a hinge pin and engage a latching mechanism, such that the brackets can be hingedly secure the door to the enclosure and latch the closed with the door in at least two different orientations. In one embodiment, hinging and latching hardware for an enclosure can include a door wing configured to be secured to an enclosure door, and first and second frame wings configured to be secured to an enclosure frame on different sides of a door opening. The hardware can accordingly provide first and second hinging and latching configurations for the door, with the door in first and second orientations, respectively.

Abstract: A locking mechanism for an enclosure. The locking mechanism includes a housing with an outer surface having a first tab fixedly attached to the housing. The housing is adapted to be coupled to a door by pressing the housing through a latch housing of a latching mechanism of the door until the first tab springs out and locks the housing in place in the latch housing. The locking mechanism includes an insert adapted to be positioned through the housing and adapted to be coupled to a flange of the latching mechanism of the door. The insert includes either a handle or a knob. Rotation of the insert rotates the flange to lock the door.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide enclosures for electronic components and methods for manufacturing the same. In one embodiment, the enclosure includes first and second sidewalls formed from a single elongated piece of sheet metal. The first sidewall, the second sidewall, a third sidewall, and a fourth sidewall define an interior space of the enclosure. At least one of the first and second sidewalls includes an edge region folded inwardly relative to the interior space to form a mounting channel. The enclosure further includes a backwall coupled with first edges of the sidewalls and a door hingedly coupled with a second edge of at least one of the sidewalls.

Abstract: An electrical enclosure having a housing including a door. The electrical enclosure includes a frame assembly and a plurality of fasteners. The frame assembly has a first side including a planar portion opposite the door. The plurality of fasteners are disposed through the frame assembly for mounting the frame assembly to the door such that the fasteners do not protrude beyond the plane of the planar portion.

Abstract: An electrical enclosure includes a frame and a seismic subframe. The seismic subframe includes vertical frame members interconnecting with braces at the top and bottom and opening at the front and rear of the enclosure. The assembly mounts to the rectangular frame of the enclosure. Grid straps extend from front to rear to connect the assemblies and provide additional bracing. Front and rear panels include gusset type braces at the corners mounted to the panels that engage inner edges of the framework to provide positioning as well as support.

Abstract: A hinge includes a first leaf member with a pair of knuckles receiving a hinge pin therethrough. The knuckles include a retainer member which extends into the path of the pin. Annular grooves formed in the pin receive the retainer member to keep the pin from easily sliding in and out of the hinge. One of the grooves includes a straight side and a tapered side while the second groove includes a pair of tapered sides for allowing the retainer member to slide over the second groove but not over the first groove. In this manner, the pin may not be forced beyond the retainer member and is held in place even when pulled out of the first knuckle for removing secondly.

Abstract: A locking handle for an access door includes a housing with a cam rotatably mounted within the housing. The cam is connected to a locking pin for the pin to move transversely in response to rotational movement of the cam. A locking bar is slidably received on the housing and moved to a locked position to prevent rotation of the cam.

Abstract: A latch for securing a cover or door to an enclosure provides a dust and water tight seal. The latch has a housing in which an activator is rotatably mounted. The latch housing has a depression formed in one of its surfaces. A gasket is designed to fin in the depression providing a seal between the activator and the housing. In the preferred embodiment the latch is a quarter-turn latch. The rotation of the latch is limited between a locked and unlocked position substantially 90.degree. apart.

Abstract: A cabinet has overlapping doors to cover a cabinet opening. The overlapping doors include sealing gaskets formed on interior surfaces of the doors. The doors are shaped for the gaskets of the doors to overlap and abut in sealing engagement upon closure of the doors.

Abstract: A restructurable enclosure having a plurality of mounting blocks which are secured to the body of the enclosure at various spaced locations around and adjacent the outer peripheral portions of the door and wall panel openings therein. Each of the mounting blocks includes a plurality of threaded bores in the bottom surface thereof which communicate with openings in the enclosure body to facilitate permanent mounting of such blocks to the enclosure, and to facilitate attachment of sub-panels and other assemblies within the interior thereof, without obstructing the same. Each block also includes a pair of threaded or open bores extending inward from its outer mounting surface to facilitate mounting of the enclosure door or various wall panels to the enclosure solely from the exterior of the enclosure, without the need for accessing the interior thereof.

Abstract: A system for installing and properly positioning a sub-panel mounting board within a freestanding electrical enclosure, wherein the base sections of the enclosure frame form a continuous rectangular guide channel around the inner periphery of the enclosure which is designed to receive in opposite parallel channel segments thereof a pair of channel followers that are connected to opposite lower corners of the mounting board. Each channel follower has a depending leg which extends into its respective channel segment and supports the mounting board during installation thereof. The depending leg of each channel follower engages the bottom of the channel when the mounting board is tilted forward for installation within the enclosure. Once the mounting board is installed and positioned upright, each channel follower rests upon a mounting flange formed by the enclosure frame, thereby allowing the mounting board to be secured thereto.

Abstract: A multiple point latching system, for use with single or multi-door enclosures, which utilizes a plurality of combinational cam-pinion latch members which are rotatably mounted to the inside surface of the door and simultaneously driven by an elongated rack which extends between such latches and disconnectedly inter-engages therewith. Each combinational cam-pinion latch includes a plurality of teeth which disconnectedly inter-engage with apertures in the rack to cause simultaneous rotation thereof. A handle which is connected to the door and accessible from the exterior thereof drives one of the latch members which in turn causes movement of the rack and consequent rotation of all other combinational cam-pinion latches. Such latches are rotatably mounted at spaced locations along the free peripheral portions of the enclosure door.

Abstract: A refrigeration apparatus includes a door shelf support system comprising an inner door panel and removable shelf trim pieces. The inner door panel includes vertical dikes having vertically spaced slots. The shelf trim piece includes rearwardly extending hooks receivable in the slots and having raised hemispheric detents which cooperate with the slots to provide a snap fit between the inner door panel and the hooks to provide a tight fit which ensures that the shelves stay in place during shipment and maintain the desired snug fit during the useful life.

Abstract: A storage bin mounting system includes a pin and hook arrangement that prevents large bins from being mounted on certain areas of a refrigerator door to prevent interference with refrigerator members mounted in the refrigerator compartment opposite to those areas of the door. The system includes pairs of vertically aligned forwardly positioned pins with the pins of a pair extending inwardly from opposite door dikes. Vertically aligned rearwardly positioned pins are also provided, with the pins in a pair extending inwardly from opposite door dikes at a distance from the door's rear wall that is less than the distance between the forwardly positioned pins and the door's rear wall. Large storage bins are provided with a hook on each of the bin's side walls wherein each of the hooks has a pin engaging ramp edge positioned to engage only a forwardly positioned pin.

Abstract: A reversible hinge for use on a freezer compartment door of a single door refrigerator includes a stationary leaf for mounting to the refrigerator cabinet and a movable leaf for mounting to the freezer compartment door, as well as a tension spring extending therebetween to provide bias toward either an open position or a closed position. The spring is connected between a first pair of tabs when the hinge is mounted for left-hand opening of the freezer compartment door and between a second pair of tabs when the hinge is mounted for right-hand opening of the freezer compartment door.