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Abstract
A below in floor lengthwise interconnected arrangement of wire baskets serving
as a repository of cables for computers and like apparatus, in which opposite
sides of the baskets are assembled in depending relation from opposite side
supports by inverted U-shape hooks thereof being urged in ascending movement
through an opening into a compartment of each opposite support bounded by U-shaped
edges, and resulting in the inverted U-shapes and upright U-shapes engaging with each other.

Patent number: 6427400
Filing date: Feb 26, 2001
Issue date: Aug 6, 2002
Inventor: Drew Greenblatt
Primary Examiner: Laura A. Callo
Current U.S. Classification
522205; 521262; 52263; 248/49
International Classification
E04B 548; F16L 300
Claims
What is claimed is:
1. At a site of use of cable-operated computers of a type consisting of an upper
floor above a lower floor and having spaced apart side walls bounding therebetween
a channel repository of said cables of said computers, an interconnected construction
of plural wire baskets cable-supports having an operative position in said channel
repository, at least one said wire basket cable-support comprising four vertical
stanchions in a spaced apart rectangular configuration, at least two horizontal
supports connected in spanning relation between two cooperating corner stanchions
adjacent facing sides of said channel repository, each said horizontal support
having spaced apart side walls bounding an elongated inverted U-shaped main
compartment extending lengthwise of said channel repository, each said side wall
of said horizontal support having a U-shaped peripheral edge defining an entrance
opening into said main compartment and bounding a correspondingly U-shaped auxiliary
compartment extending lengthwise of said channel repository and on opposite sides of
said main compartment, and a rectangular shaped wire basket having at corner locations
along opposite sides upstanding basket-attaching members terminating in inverted U-shaped
hooking means, said U-shaped hooking means being slightly oversized in width in relation
to a width of said entrance opening-defining U-shaped peripheral edges, said U-shaped
hooking means in response to ascending movement from below and into said main compartment
effective to cam apart said side wall U-shaped peripheral edges and thereafter to snap into
interengaging relation with said U-shaped peripheral edges as caused by opposing said U-shapes
and inverted U-shapes thereof, whereby a wire basket connected in depending relation from said
support members within said channel repository is without welding or bolted connection thereto.
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