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US 11,891,267 B2Granted
Stackable spool cable manager
AssigneeBelden Canada Ulc
InventorsChristian Roa-Quispe, Oscar Alberto Lazarte Barrios
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Abstract
A stackable spool cable manager assembly is disclosed which comprises a plurality of like cable manager spools. The cable manager spools comprise a locking mechanism such that the cable manager spools can be stacked and such that when locked together a cable support arm of each the cable manager spools is offset from the others. A magnet is also provided, for example for securing to a bottom ne of a stack of cable manager spools such that they can be secured to a metal tray or the like.
Claims21
A stackable spool cable manager assembly for mounting on a surface manufactured from a ferrous material, comprising:
- a plurality of like cable manager spools, each of the cable manager spools comprising:
- a center portion comprising an outer surface, a top surface and a bottom surface opposite the top surface and a locking mechanism comprising a first part on the top surface and a second part in a bottom surface;
- a support arm extending away from the center portion and comprising a cable support surface and an end stop attached to an outer end of the cable support surface;
- a magnet;
- wherein the center portion comprises a cylindrical outer surface, a flat top surface and a flat bottom surface in parallel to the top surface;
- wherein the first part comprises a plurality of L shaped tabs extending from the too surface and spaced along a first path concentric with the cylindrical outer surface;
- wherein the second part comprises a plurality of tab receiving slots in the bottom surface and spaced along a second path concentric with the cylindrical outer surface and in parallel to the first path;
- wherein a lower one of the cable manager spools is secured to an adjacent upper one of the cable manager spools by inserting each of the L shaped labs of the lower cable manager spool into a respective one of the tab receiving slots of the upper cable manager spool and rotating the lower cable manager spool relative to the upper cable manager spool and such that each of the L shaped tabs of the lower cable manager spool is received into a respective one of the tab receiving slots of the upper cable manager spool and the bottom surface of the upper cable management spool is gripped by each of the L-shaped tabs;
- wherein the support arm of each of the cable manager spools is positioned such that on securing of the lower cable manager spools to the upper cable manager spools, a support arm of the lower cable manager spools is offset from a support arm of the upper cable manager spool;
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- wherein the magnet is positioned in a bottom of a bottom one of the plurality of cable manager spools and such that when positioned on the surface manufactured from the ferrous material, the magnet secures the plurality of like cable manager spools to the surface manufactured from the ferrous material.
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A cable manager spool, comprising:
- a center portion comprising a cylindrical outer surface, a flat top surface and a flat bottom surface in parallel to the top surface, a locking mechanism comprising a first part on the top surface and a second part in the bottom surface, and an orifice in the bottom surface;
- a support arm extending radially away from the center portion and comprising a flat cable support surface wherein an underside of the flat cable support surface lies substantially in the same plane as the bottom surface, and further comprising an end stop, a lower long edge of the end stop attached to an outer end of the cable support surface and such that the planar end stop is at a right angle to the cable support surface and at least one flat finger extending away from an upper long edge end stop towards the center portion and such that a flat under side of the at least one finger is coplanar and in parallel to the cable support surface;
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- a magnet dimensioned to fit within the orifice.
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A stackable spool cable manager assembly, comprising:
- a plurality of like cable manager spools, each of the cable manager spools comprising:
- a center portion comprising a cylindrical outer surface, a top surface, a bottom surface opposite the top surface, a plurality of L shaped tabs extending from the top surface and spaced along a first path concentric with the cylindrical outer surface and a plurality of tab receiving slots in the bottom surface and spaced along a second path concentric with the cylindrical outer surface and in parallel to the first path;
- a support arm extending away from the center portion and comprising a cable support surface and an end stop attached to an outer end of the cable support surface;
- wherein a lower one of the cable manager spools is secured to an adjacent upper one of the cable manager spools by inserting each of the L shaped tabs of the lower cable manager spool into a respective one of the tab receiving slots of the upper cable manager spool and rotating the lower cable manager spool relative to the upper cable manager spool and such that each of the L shaped tabs of the lower cable manager spool is received into a respective one of the tab receiving slots of the upper cable manager spool and the bottom surface of the upper cable management spool is gripped by each of the L-shaped tabs.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.