Universal power cord handling device
AssigneeDISH Network L.L.C.
InventorJimmy A. Pollard
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Abstract
A power cord handling device and a method to adjust a power cord extending from a device are provided. A frame assembly may include a base supporting a device receiving area to receive a device. A wheel assembly may be adapted to facilitate coiling of a power cord extending from the device when the device is disposed in the device receiving area. The wheel assembly may include a protrusion member. The protrusion member may include one or more slots. A controller may be configured to control a wheel assembly motor. Guide arms may be adapted to receive one or more second portions of the power cord extending from the device and to guide the power cord during a power cord handling operation. The controller may be configured to cause the wheel assembly to perform a power cord handling operation.
Claims20
A cord handling device comprising:
- a wheel assembly adapted to facilitate coiling of a cord, where:
- the wheel assembly comprises one or more slots;
- each slot of the one or more slots extends along a longitudinal axis of a protrusion member;
- and
- each slot of the one or more slots is adapted to receive a first portion of the cord;
- one or more guide arms, where each guide arm of the one or more guide arms:
- is coupled to a surface of the cord handling device at one end of the guide arm;
- is adapted to receive one or more second portions of the cord;
- and
- is adapted to guide the cord during a cord handling operation;
- where the cord handling device is operable to perform a cord handling operation when the first portion of the cord is disposed in at least one slot of the one or more slots of the protrusion member, and the one or more second portions of the cord are disposed in a gap between part of the one or more guide arms and the surface, where the cord handling operation causes coiling of the cord about the protrusion member.
A method comprising:
- adapting a wheel assembly to facilitate coiling of a cord, where:
- the wheel assembly comprises one or more slots;
- each slot of the one or more slots extends along a longitudinal axis of a protrusion member;
- and
- each slot of the one or more slots is adapted to receive a first portion of the cord;
- adapting one or more guide arms to guide the cord during a cord handling operation, where each guide arm of the one or more guide arms:
- is coupled to a surface of a cord handling device at one end of the guide arm;
- and
- is adapted to receive one or more second portions of the cord;
- where the cord handling device is operable to perform a cord handling operation when the first portion of the cord is disposed in at least one slot of the one or more slots of the protrusion member, and the one or more second portions of the cord are disposed in a gap between part of the one or more guide arms and the surface, where the cord handling operation causes coiling of the cord about the protrusion member.
A method comprising:
- disposing a first portion of a cord in at least one slot of one or more slots of a wheel assembly, where each slot of the one or more slots extends along a longitudinal axis of a protrusion member;
- disposing one or more second portions of the cord under one or more guide arms to guide the cord during a cord handling operation, where each guide arm of the one or more guide arms is coupled to a surface of a cord handling device at one end of the guide arm;
- and
- activating the cord handling device to perform a cord handling operation when the first portion of the cord is disposed in at least one slot of the one or more slots of the protrusion member, and the one or more second portions of the cord are disposed in a gap between part of the one or more guide arms and the surface, where the cord handling operation causes coiling of the cord about the protrusion member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.