Adjustable cable management grommet
AssigneeCarpin Manufacturing, Inc.
InventorHenry J. Carpinella
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Abstract
An adjustable management grommet for routing cables, wires, and the like, through a surface having an integrally formed body with a cylindrical shell and a planar wall at one end thereof, and an integrally formed circular cover rotatably mounted in snap fit fashion at the center of the wall of the body. Both the wall of the body and the cover have sector-shaped apertures which can be aligned by rotating the cover to define an adjustable opening for easy installation and removal of plugged cabling. Detents projecting from the cover successively engage dimples on the wall of the body as the cover is rotated to define a plurality of discrete opening sizes to snugly accommodate installed cabling.
Claims11
An adjustable cable management grommet for routing cables through a surface comprising:
- a body having a substantially cylindrical shell with opposed ends and a wall at at least one end of said shell, said wall cooperating with said shell to define at least a first aperture for routing cables;
- a cover rotatably mounted on said body for selectively blocking said first aperture by rotation of said cover about an axis of rotation which is generally perpendicular to said wall;
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- wherein one of said wall and said cover includes a plurality of male detents, and wherein the other of said wall and said cover includes a plurality of female dimples, at least some of which successively engage said detents when said cover is rotated.
An adjustable cable management grommet for routing cables through an aperture situated entirely within the perimeter of a generally planar surface of a piece of furniture, said grommet comprising;
- a body having a shell with opposed ends and a wall at at least one end of said shell, said wall cooperating with said shell to define at least a first aperture for routing cables, said shell being sized and shaped to be snugly received within the surface aperture and said first aperture being coplanar with the surface aperture when said shell is received within the surface aperture;
- a cover rotatably mounted on said body for selectively blocking said first aperture by rotation of said cover about an axis of rotation which is generally perpendicular to said wall;
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- wherein one of said wall and said cover includes a plurality of male detents, and wherein the other of said wall and said cover includes a plurality of female dimples at least some of which successively engage said detents when said cover is rotated.
A method of routing a cable, of a type having a cross-section, through a surface aperture situated entirely within the perimeter of a surface, said method comprising the steps of:
- providing an adjustable cable management grommet having a body with opposed ends and a wall at at least one of said ends, the wall defining at least a cable-routing aperture, the grommet also having a rotatably mounted cover which cooperates with the wall to selectively block the cable-routing aperture;
- installing the grommet in the surface aperture;
- firstly rotating the cover about a rotation axis which is generally perpendicular to the wall until the cover cooperates with the wall to define an opening sufficiently large to pass the cable therethrough;
- passing the cable through the opening;
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- secondly rotating the cover about the rotation axis until the opening is generally commensurate with the cross-section of the cable passing therethrough.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.