MULTI-RACK RETRACTABLE DOOR APPARATUS

摘要

A electronic equipment rack assembly retractable door apparatus is disclosed, which may include channels, horizontally mounted at the top and bottom of an open side of the rack assembly, and latch plates mounted to the rack assembly. The retractable door apparatus may have movable door frame members, each having a housing with a cavity and a slot opening to the cavity, rollers attached to the housing and contained within the channels, designed to maintain the door frame member in a vertical orientation, a spool, attached within the housing, a spring configured provide a torsional tensioning force on the spool, and a latching door handle, attached to the housing to engage with the latch plate receptacles. The retractable door apparatus may also include a door material attached to the door frame member spools and configured to pass through the slots in the door frame member housings.

主权项

1. A retractable door apparatus for an electronic equipment rack assembly, comprising:
a first structure having a first channel and that is horizontally mounted at a top of an open side of the rack assembly; a second structure having a second channel and that is horizontally mounted at a bottom of the open side of the rack assembly; a first latch plate and a second latch plate, each having a receptacle and mounted to the electronic equipment rack assembly; a first and a second horizontally movable door frame member, each having:
a housing with an interior cavity and a slot defining an opening to the interior cavity;a first roller, rotationally attached to an upper location of the housing, contained within the first channel and designed to maintain the door frame member in a vertical orientation;a second roller, rotationally attached to a lower location of the housing, contained within the second channel and designed to maintain the door frame member in a vertical orientation;a spool, rotationally attached to the housing and positioned within the interior cavity of the housing;a spring operably coupled to the spool and to the housing to provide a torsional tensioning force on the spool; anda latching door handle, slidably attached to the housing to engage, in a latched position, with the receptacle of one of the first latch plate and the second latch plate; and a door material having a first lateral side attached to the spool of a first door frame member and a second lateral side attached to the spool of a second door frame member, and configured to pass through a slot in the housing of the first door frame member and a slot in the housing of the second door frame member.