Cable pathway divider and method for installing same
AssigneeChatsworth Products, Inc.
InventorWilliam Drew Krietzman
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Abstract
A cable pathway divider, for installation on a cable runway, includes a pair of post halves and a ring-shaped locking member. Each post half includes a base portion and an extension portion, and the base portions of the post halves are arrangeable at opposite sides of a cross member of a cable runway. The post halves are securable to one another from opposite sides of the cross member, via clamping arrangement of the ring-shaped locking member relative to the post halves, such that the extension portions extend into a space above the cable runway to divide the cable runway into at least two cable paths.
Claims10
A method of securing a cable pathway divider to a cable runway, the method comprising:
- providing a cable runway including a pair of parallel rails and a plurality of transverse cross members, each transverse cross member extending between the pair of parallel rails;
- providing a cable pathway divider having a pair of post halves, each including a base portion and an extension portion that extends away from the base portion, wherein each extension portion includes a slot at a distal end thereof and a hinge member having a tab that extends at an angle away from the hinge member, each of the slot and the hinge member being disposed at opposite sides of a center line;
- arranging the post halves at opposite sides of a selected cross member of the cable runway;
- positioning the tab of each post half within the slot of the other post half, thereby defining a hinge mechanism that facilitates rotational movement of each post half relative to the other;
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- rotating the post halves toward one another such that the post halves are arranged in a side-by-side relationship with the selected cross member received within a combined channel defined by the base portions and the extension portions extending into a space above the cable runway, thereby dividing the space above the cable runway into separate cable pathways.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.