Card-rack assembly
AssigneePyramid Technologies LLC
InventorGerhard A. Foerster
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Abstract
A card rack includes parallel pairs of coplanar fins that extend inwardly from side walls whose spacing is adjustable. The inner edges of the coplanar fins are spaced apart so as to provide a passage for an elongated stop member that extends through all the compartments. Holes in tabs at both ends of the stop member receive self-tapping screws. The threaded portions of the screws engage opposed faces of upper and lower pairs of fins to secure the stop member in place. The screws can be loosened to slide the stop member along the upper and lower compartments and thereby adjust the depth of all the compartments.
Claims8
In a card-rack assembly including a pair of elongated spaced-apart side walls, each of which provides first and second longitudinally extending edges, said first and second edges lying generally in first and second substantially parallel planes, respectively, said card-rack assembly further including means supporting said side walls in opposed, spaced relationship and a multiplicity of substantially parallel divider portions supported between said side walls at an acute angle to said common plane, said side walls and the surfaces of adjacent divider portions forming card compartments, at least a plurality of said compartments being open toward said first common plane, said card-rack assembly thereby being permitted to be mounted with said common planes extending vertically and said divider portions inclined downwardly from said first common plane toward said second common plane to permit cards to be received at said first common plane in said card compartments of said open plurality thereof, the improvement wherein:
- a. each of said divider portions has an aperture therein with said apertures of said divider portions being aligned at least in part to provide a passage extending through said compartments;
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- b. said card-rack assembly further includes:
- (i) an elongated stop member disposed in said passage and extending through said compartments substantially parallel to said first common plane to limit the depth to which cards can be inserted into said compartments, said passage being of substantially greater dimension than said stop member to permit substantial movement of said stop member toward and away from said first common plane;
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- (ii) mounting means extending between and engaging opposed faces of at least a pair of adjacent divider portions and supporting said stop member in said passage to provide a compartment depth determined by the position at which said opposed faces are engaged by the mounting means, said mounting means being releasable to permit said stop member to be moved in said passage toward and away from said first common plane, said mounting means further being re-engageable with said opposed faces of said pair of adjacent divider portions to mount said stop member at different positions, the depth of said compartments to which cards can be inserted thereby being adjustable to any value within a limited range.
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