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US 8,913,393 B2Granted
Wall-mountable support rack for equipment
AssigneeInnovation First, Inc.
InventorsRobert H. Mimlitch, III, Jeffrey R. Waegelin, Michael Cummings
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Abstract
A wall mountable rack for equipment, and an associated method of assembly for the rack and a method of use for the rack is disclosed. Exemplary equipment that may be mounted in the rack includes power strips, patch panels, servers, tower computers, tape drives, hubs, switches, cabling and other equipment related thereto.
Claims15
A wall-mountable rack for supporting equipment, said rack comprising:
- a rectangular cube having linear edge members, each of said edge members having a first planar flange joined to a second planar flange at substantially a 90 degree angle to create a substantially L shaped recess to receive said equipment, said rack further including:
- four side members, each side member comprising one of said linear edge members;
- an upper rectangular member comprising four linear edge members, each linear member joined at its end to another of the four linear edge members at substantially a 90 degree angle to form a corner of the rectangular cube, said corner adapted to receive an end portion of one of the side members;
- a lower rectangular member comprising four linear edge members, each linear edge member joined at its end to another of the four linear edge members at substantially a 90 degree angle to form a corner of the rectangular cube, said corner adapted to receive an end portion of one of the side members;
- wherein the first and second planar flanges of each of said side members have a plurality of equipment mounting apertures directly disposed thereon longitudinally along an entire length of the first and second planar flanges of each of said side members;
- wherein the first and second planar flanges of each of the linear edge members defined by the upper rectangular member have a plurality of equipment mounting apertures directly disposed thereon longitudinally along an entire length of the first and second planar flanges of each of the linear edge members defined by the upper rectangular member;
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- wherein the first and second planar flanges of each of the linear edge members defined by the lower rectangular member have a plurality of equipment mounting apertures directly disposed thereon longitudinally along an entire length of the first and second planar flanges of each of the linear edge members defined by the lower rectangular member.
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A wall-mountable rack for supporting equipment, said rack comprising:
- a rectangular cube having linear edge members, each of said edge members having a first planar flange joined to a second planar flange at substantially a 90 degree angle, and wherein said rack further includes:
- four side members, each side member comprising one of said linear edge members;
- an upper rectangular member comprising four linear edge members, each linear member joined at its end to another of the four linear edge members at substantially a 90 degree angle to form a corner of the rectangular cube, said corner adapted to receive an end portion of one of the side members;
- a lower rectangular member comprising four linear edge members, each linear edge member joined at its end to another of the four linear edge members at substantially a 90 degree angle to form a corner of the rectangular cube, said corner adapted to receive an end portion of one of the side members;
- wherein the first and second planar flanges of each of said side members have a plurality of equipment mounting apertures disposed longitudinally along the first and second planar flanges of each of said side members;
- wherein the first and second planar flanges of each of the linear edge members defined by the upper rectangular member have a plurality of equipment mounting apertures disposed longitudinally along the first and second planar flanges of each of the linear edge members defined by the upper rectangular member;
- wherein the first and second planar flanges of each of the linear edge members defined by the lower rectangular member have a plurality of equipment mounting apertures disposed longitudinally along the first and second planar flanges of each of the linear edge members defined by the lower rectangular member;
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- said upper rectangular member further includes a downwardly disposed leg portion at each corner, and said lower rectangular member further includes an upwardly disposed leg portion at each corner, and wherein each leg portion is adapted to receive an outside portion of the end portion of one of the side members.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.