Server drawer slide mount apparatus for a rack-mounted computer system

A slide support bracket for horizontally mounting an inner end portion of a telescoping slide structure in a rack-mounted computer system cabinet frame structure having a pair of front and rear vertically extending corner support channels each having a laterally projecting side flange with a vertically spaced series of openings therein, the telescoping slide structure having an outer end portion securable to a side wall of a server drawer and a spaced series of openings formed along the length of said inner end portion, said slide support bracket comprising:

• a horizontally positionable elongated base wall having transversely bent front and rear end sections respectively positionable against and securable to the side flanges of the front and rear corner support channels;
• alignment means, formed on said front end section and complementarily receivable in a vertically spaced pair of the openings in the side flange of the front corner support channel, for precisely aligning said front end section, both horizontally and vertically, with the front corner support channel;
• a series of nut means, spaced apart along the length of and captively retained on said slide bracket base wall, into which a series of threaded fastening members extended through said openings in said inner end portion of the telescoping slide structure may be threadingly secured to operatively mount it on said base wall of said slide support bracket;
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• nut means, captively retained on said front end section of said base wall and alignable with a plurality of openings in the side flange of the front corner support channel, for receiving threaded fastening members extended through said plurality of openings to secure said front end section to the side flange of the front corner support channel.

Rack mounted computer apparatus comprising:

• a generally rectangularly cross-sectioned cabinet frame structure including two spaced pairs of vertically extending front and rear corner support channels, each corner support channel having a laterally inwardly projecting side flange with a vertically spaced series of openings formed therethrough;
• a server unit including a drawer structure into which selected computer components may be operatively placed, said drawer structure having a front end wall from which a pair of opposite vertical side walls rearwardly extend;
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• mounting means for supporting said drawer structure on said cabinet frame structure, between said spaced pairs of vertically extending front and rear corner support channels, for horizontal forward and rearward movement relative thereto between open and closed positions, said mounting means, on each side of said drawer structure, including:
• a slide support bracket having a horizontally elongated base wall having a transversely bent front end section engaging the side flange of one of the front corner support channels, and a transversely bent rear end section engaging the side flange of one of the rear corner support channels, said front end section having upper and lower alignment tabs thereon which are complementarily received in a first vertically spaced pair of the openings in the side flange of the front corner support channel and function to align said front end section with the front corner support channel in both horizontal and vertical directions,
• first attachment means for removably securing said front end sections of said base wall to the side flange of the front corner support channel, said first attachment means including a vertically spaced pair of nut members captively retained on said front end section of said base wall and aligned with a second vertically spaced pair of the openings in the side flange of the front corner support channel, and a pair of fastening members extending through said second vertically spaced pair of the openings in the side flange of the front corner support channel and threaded into said captively retained nut members on said front end section on said base wall,
• second attachment means for removably securing said rear end section of said base wall to the side flange of the rear corner support channel,
• a telescoping slide structure having an outer end portion secured to one of said side walls of said drawer structure, and an inner end portion positioned against said base wall in a parallel relationship therewith and having a horizontally spaced series of openings therein, and
• third attachment means for removably securing said inner end portion of said telescoping slide structure to said base wall, said third attachment means including a horizontally spaced series of nut members captively retained on said base wall and aligned with said openings in said inner end portion of said telescoping slide structure, and a series of threaded fasteners extending through said openings in said inner end portion of said telescoping slide structure and threaded into said captively retained nut members on said base wall.