Skeletal Frame Patents (Class 312/265.1)
  • Patent number: 6299268
    Abstract: A frame is equipped with joining parts formed by bipods which are equipped with positioning means in the intermediate common part for fixing of the girders. Each positioning means comprises at least one pair of bearing faces arranged in a V-shaped confining a corner-piece with an acute angle in which the girder of conjugate shape fits. An assembly screw performs progressive tightening of the girder onto the corner-piece of the bipod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2001
    Assignee: Schneider Electric Industries SA
    Inventors: Pierre Carle, Kazimir Laboch, Jean-Pierre Pin
  • Patent number: 6293637
    Abstract: An open frame-type electronic frame in which the two sides are each formed of two separate corrugated channel members rigidly connected by a series of cross struts having specially configured bent tang ends and heavy duty offset weld joints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2001
    Assignee: Amco Engineering Co.
    Inventors: Thomas E. Anderson, Jerry L. Young, Glenn Dickson, Louis A. Derango
  • Publication number: 20010022490
    Abstract: A cable conduit for a switchgear cabinet, having a rack assembled from rack legs, at least a part of which have several profiled sides on an inside facing an interior, which extend at an angle with respect to each other and to a diagonal line of the rack and have a row of fastening receivers, wherein the cable conduit has a U-shaped profiled receiving section with a base leg and two lateral legs and can be closed by a cover section, which can be locked on the lateral legs. A dependable attachment of the cable conduit with an optimal cable reception space is achieved because the base leg of the profiled receiving section is matched to at least a portion of the contour defined by the profiled sides of the inside of a frame leg, or the profiled sides of the insides of two frame legs which are connected with each other, and can be connected with the profiled sides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2001
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Inventors: Wolfgang Reuter, Matthias Muller, Martina Kohler, Heinz Schmitt
  • Patent number: 6290072
    Abstract: A library apparatus is capable of enhancing the dimensional accuracy of locker frame structures to allow an accessor to surely carry out the insertion/extraction of a cartridge into/from a storage unit or a deck. Each of the locker frame structures is made up of a top board, a base and sheet metal columns vertically standing between corner portions of the top board and the base. Each of the sheet metal columns is fixedly welded to the top board and the base from the inside of the locker. The library apparatus is applicable to a large-capacity external storage system storing a large number of cartridges such as magnetic tape cartridges and optical disk cartridges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2001
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Kenichi Utsumi, Toshihito Kanetsuku, Takahisa Miyamoto, Yutaka Sugai, Osamu Ohmori
  • Patent number: 6283565
    Abstract: A hinge for a switch cupboard, having a first hinge part and a second hinge part. The first hinge part is arranged on a cupboard door and the second hinge part is arranged on the body of the switch cupboard. The hinge can be used on both left-mounted and right-mounted cupboard doors and has two fixing positions. Thus, the cupboard doors can be fixed to the body in two different positions at a distance from each other in the axial direction of the hinge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2001
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Martina Köhler, Markus Neuhof
  • Publication number: 20010015598
    Abstract: An equipment mounting rack is composed of a seismically sound skeleton structure having spaced vertical uprights supplemented by distinct spaced equipment mounting structures attached to that skeleton structure and extending along these vertical uprights and constituting side wall structures of a mounting rack interior space. The distinct spaced equipment mounting structures may have elongate first sections extending along the spaced vertical uprights, and elongate second sections extending along these first sections and constituting side wall structures of a mounting rack interior space. Cabinet walls may be attached to the skeleton structure, and the equipment mounting structures may constitute inside such cabinet walls side wall structures of a mounting rack interior space. The vertical uprights advantageously are reinforced by elongate partial enclosures that may avoid the need for a large number of weakening mounting holes in these uprights.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2001
    Publication date: August 23, 2001
    Inventor: Richard W. Sevier
  • Patent number: 6273533
    Abstract: A frame piece for a rack of a switching cabinet. With minimum material an optimum result is obtained with regard to fastening planes and fastening direction as well as stability. A profile inside and a profile outside are used to form the frame piece as a closed hollow profile with one or two longitudinally directed hollow spaces. The profile outside delineates a free space to an outside corner edge of the rack. The profile inside has a profile section with several rows of fastening seats or several profile sections at an angle with respect to one another with at least one series of fastening seats. The profile inside and the profile outside form outside edges in a region of the right-angled abutting outsides of the rack. The outside edges are designed as double-layer sealing struts or connected to them in a direction to the outside corner edge connecting struts with or without receiving grooves for sealing elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2001
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Walter Nicolai, Udo Münch, Georg Vogel
  • Patent number: 6247770
    Abstract: Specially designed articles of furniture for use in conference and office settings which include a plurality of uniquely configured supporting legs, one or more article support structures disposed centrally of the supporting legs and a novel connector member for interconnecting the support structures of the legs. The connector member also enables the quick and easy interconnection of the polygonal panels that make up certain of the article support structures of the apparatus. The articles of furniture can be used to support and transport a wide variety of devices such as audio and video equipment, slide projectors, overhead projectors and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2001
    Assignee: Virco Mfg. Corporation
    Inventor: Peter Glass
  • Patent number: 6241206
    Abstract: A multi-functional mounting bracket for use in different orientations for mounting respectively different structural members within cabinets comprises a right-angled member including two joined together elongated metal strips. One strip has a straight edge and the other strip has a “peaked” edge including laterally extending projections with gaps therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2001
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Lit-Yan Kam
  • Patent number: 6237783
    Abstract: A customer tray storing apparatus which is capable of storing customer trays in a stocker by moving them in the horizontal direction as well as removing them from the stocker in the horizontal direction. The customer tray storing apparatus comprises a generally rectangular bottom frame for resting thereon customer trays, guide pins attached to the bottom frame adjacent the opposite ends of one of the minor sides of the frame, a pair of door posts attached to the bottom frame adjacent the opposite ends of the other minor side of the bottom frame, a pair of guide rails attached to the bottom frame along the opposed major sides of the bottom frame, and a door pivotally supported by the pair of door posts at their lower ends. The door comprises a generally square or rectangular door member and a pair of reinforcing beams supporting the door member along the opposite lateral side portions thereof. The reinforcing beams are provided at their lower ends with pivot shafts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2001
    Assignee: Advantest Corporation
    Inventor: Makoto Sagawa
  • Patent number: 6238027
    Abstract: A switching cabinet with a rack assembled from horizontal and vertical frame sections, in which a switching cabinet body enclosed by the rack is covered by a cabinet door and side walls, the cabinet door being hinged around one of the vertical frame sections and pivotal about the vertical pivot axis. To obtain improved access to the interior of the switching cabinet, at least one of the side walls is fixedly mounted on the rack or is hinged to pivot about a vertical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2001
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Martina Köhler, Wolfgang Reuter, Rolf Benner
  • Patent number: 6231142
    Abstract: A switch cabinet comprising a frame structure consisting of a plurality of interconnected frame profiles and cover elements. Each frame profile comprises two spaced-apart sealing edges or surfaces which can each be pressed onto an associated cover profile. The two sealing edges or surfaces divide the outer surfaces of the frame profiles into a first side surface area assigned to the interior of the switch cabinet and into a second side surface area facing away from the interior of the switch cabinet. Fastening or cover elements should be flexibly mountable with the sealing efforts being as small as possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2001
    Inventor: Luc Pochet
  • Patent number: 6223908
    Abstract: A four-column adjustable communications equipment dual relay rack is the subject matter. The columns are arranged in pairs with each pair of columns defining a vertical plane. Two adjustment brackets connected to columns of opposed pairs and two second adjustment brackets connected to the other columns of the two pairs. The distance between the ends of the adjustment brackets selective to determine the distance between the vertical plans of the pairs of columns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2001
    Assignee: Homaco, Inc.
    Inventor: Yakov Kurtsman
  • Patent number: 6213577
    Abstract: Equipment storage apparatus, such as equipment racks and cabinets, according to the invention have a vertical load bearing member with a stepped cross-section. Thus, for example, a load bearing member of a frame according to one aspect of the invention can have two faces on its front: one with a frontward directed normal for accommodating equipment mounts, and one with a frontward directed normal for accommodating front door mounts. A pair of such load bearing members can be provided, along with one or more horizontal cross-pieces or other such structural elements, to form a frame defining a generally rectangular central region in which mounted equipment is disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2001
    Assignee: The Foxboro Company
    Inventors: Albert Rooyakkers, John M. Porter
  • Patent number: 6206211
    Abstract: A frame piece for a rack of a switching cabinet having fastening possibilities, torsional rigidity, material expenditure and manufacture that corresponds to requirements. The frame piece includes a section outside as a connection section between outsides of the rack that contact at right angles. Fastening sections of a section inside are connected to the connection section, which have in a longitudinal direction of the section fastening mounts and transition into section sides having second fastening mounts. The fastening sections are at a first angle to the outsides of the rack and the section sides are at a second angle to the connected fastening section. The fastening sections and the section sides form two inside edges of the section inside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2001
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Walter Nicolai, Udo Münch, Georg Vogel
  • Patent number: 6196753
    Abstract: The invention relates to a furniture system, in particular a kitchen furniture system consisting of a self-supporting basic framework with tubes and/or sections connected to each other by connecting elements. In accordance with the invention the connecting element has a shaped part which is itself formed as a tube and/or substantially closed hollow section on which at least one laterally protruding projection is formed extending over the whole length of the connecting element and that the connecting elements themselves are integrated as vertical components which replace the tubes and/or sections in some parts in the basic framework.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2001
    Assignee: bulthaup GmbH & Co. Küchensysteme
    Inventors: Otto Langer, Johann Wudy, Thomas Haberl, Robert Heizinger, Klaus Massanetz, Rene Neumann
  • Patent number: 6190081
    Abstract: A fastening device for attachment of, for example, mounting rails to vertical frame profiles of a switchgear cabinet. The frame profiles have rows of evenly distributed fastening retainers. A fastening block, which has fastening retainers for connecting the mounting rail or the like, can be added to the frame profile. In order to secure fastening of the mounting rail on the vertical frame profile, which only requires a small outlay of parts, the fastening block is manufactured either as a punched and bent element from a sheet metal blank or as an extruded element. At least one hook element projects from the fastening block, which can be suspended in an associated fastening retainer of the frame profile. The fastening block has two lateral walls, which extend at right angles with respect to each other and form a common vertical inner edge facing the interior of the switchgear cabinet. The lateral walls are equipped with the fastening retainers for connecting the add-on elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2001
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Horst Besserer, Marc Hartel, Walter Nicolai