Horizontal cable manager with a hinged door
AssigneePanduit Corp.
InventorsJason O'Young, Kevin M. Zumbek
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Abstract
A horizontal cable manager that includes a body with a back and a plurality of fingers extending from the back of the body. The distal end of at least one finger includes a hinge pin holder. The horizontal cable manager also includes a door hingedly attached to the fingers extending from the body. The door has a front, a back, a top edge, a bottom edge, and at least one hinge pin receptacle positioned along the top edge or the bottom edge of the door. The hinge pin receptacle houses a magnet to enable the door to attach to the hinge pin holder of the at least one finger to hold the door in a closed position.
Claims19
A horizontal cable manager for routing cables in a network rack, the horizontal cable manager comprising:
- a body with a back and a plurality of fingers extending from the back of the body, wherein a distal end of at least one of the plurality of fingers has a hinge pin holder;
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- a door hingedly attached to the plurality of fingers extending from the body, the door having a front, a back, a top edge, a bottom edge, and at least one hinge pin receptacle positioned along at least one of the top edge or the bottom edge of the door, the hinge pin receptacle houses a magnet for enabling the door to attach to the hinge pin holder of the at least one of the plurality of fingers to hold the door in a closed position.
A horizontal cable manager for routing cables in a network rack, the horizontal cable manager comprising:
- a body with a back and a plurality of fingers extending from the back of the body, wherein distal ends of the plurality of fingers have one of cable management flags and hinge pin holders;
- a door hingedly attached to the plurality of fingers extending from the body, the door having a front, a back, a top edge, a bottom edge, and hinge pin receptacles positioned along the top edge and the bottom edge of the door,
- wherein the hinge pin holders of the plurality of fingers accept the hinge pin receptacles extending from the back of the door;
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- wherein the hinge pin receptacles further comprising a magnet and the hinge pin holders further comprising a hinge pin, whereby the magnets engage the hinge pins to hold the door in a closed position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.