Plastic tote
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsJames Don Curlee, Steven Embleton, Joshua Scott Keup, Ben John Sy
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Abstract
An apparatus may include a plastic frame; a plurality of mounting features coupled to the plastic frame such that the plastic frame is configured to maintain the plurality of mounting features in a desired orientation, wherein the plurality of mounting features, when in the desired orientation, are operable to receive and retain information handling systems; and a base coupled to the plastic frame and disposed below the plastic frame along a central vertical axis of the apparatus that is defined by the orientation of the plurality of mounting features.
Claims17
An apparatus comprising:
- a plastic frame having an interior width and an interior depth defining an interior footprint of the plastic frame;
- a plurality of mounting features coupled to the plastic frame such that the plastic frame is configured to maintain the plurality of mounting features in a desired orientation, wherein the plurality of mounting features, when in the desired orientation, are operable to receive and retain information handling systems;
- a base coupled to the plastic frame and disposed below the plastic frame along a central vertical axis of the apparatus that is defined by the orientation of the plurality of mounting features, wherein the base is coupled to the plastic frame via at least one vibration damper, wherein the at least one vibration damper is a wire rope isolator, and wherein the plastic frame comprises a plurality of external walls that are angled relative to the vertical axis such that a bottom portion of the external walls is disposed at a greater distance from the central vertical axis than a top portion of the external walls;
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- a plurality of casters coupled to a bottom surface of the base in an outrigger configuration such that the casters are laterally disposed in positions that are outside the interior width of the plastic frame but beneath the bottom portion of the external walls.
A method comprising:
- forming a plastic frame of an apparatus, the plastic frame having an interior width and an interior depth defining an interior footprint of the plastic frame;
- coupling a plurality of mounting features to the plastic frame such that the plastic frame is configured to maintain the plurality of mounting features in a desired orientation, wherein the plurality of mounting features, when in the desired orientation, are operable to receive and retain information handling systems;
- coupling a base to the plastic frame below the plastic frame along a central vertical axis of the apparatus that is defined by the orientation of the plurality of mounting features, wherein the base is coupled to the plastic frame via at least one vibration damper, wherein the at least one vibration damper is a wire rope isolator, and wherein the plastic frame comprises a plurality of external walls that are angled relative to the vertical axis such that a bottom portion of the external walls is disposed at a greater distance from the central vertical axis than a top portion of the external walls;
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- coupling a plurality of casters to a bottom surface of the base in an outrigger configuration such that the casters are laterally disposed in positions that are outside the interior width of the plastic frame but beneath the bottom portion of the external walls.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.