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.
Claims20
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 said cable manager spools comprising:
- a center portion comprising an outer surface, a top surface and a bottom surface opposite said top surface and a locking mechanism comprising a first part on said top surface and a second part in a bottom surface;
- a support arm extending away from said center portion and comprising a cable support surface and an end stop attached to an outer end of said cable support surface;
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- a magnet;
- wherein said first part is configured to engage with said second part and such that an upper one of said plurality of cable manager spools is engageable with an adjacent lower one of said plurality of cable manager spools;
- wherein said support arm of each of said cable manager spools is positioned such that on securing of said lower cable manager spools to said upper cable manager spools, a support arm of said lower cable manager spools is offset from a support arm of said upper cable manager spool;
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- wherein said magnet is positioned in a bottom one of said plurality of cable manager spools and such that when positioned on the tray, said magnet secures said plurality of like cable manager spools to the tray.
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 said top surface, a locking mechanism comprising a first part on said top surface and a second part in a bottom surface and an orifice in said bottom surface;
- a support arm extending radially away from said center portion and comprising a flat cable support surface wherein an underside of said flat cable support surface lies substantially in the same plane as said bottom surface, and further comprising an end stop, a lower long edge of said end stop attached to an outer end of said cable support surface and such that said planar end stop is at a right angle to said cable support surface and at least one flat finger extending away from an upper long edge of said end stop towards said center portion and such that a flat under side of said at least one finger is coplanar and in parallel to said cable support surface;
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- a magnet dimensioned to fit within said orifice.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.