Robert Boschgmbh

International Business Machines Corporation

Gavin Wright

Vance E Roe

Matthew Carr

Marc Vincent Marini

Gary Sinclair

Ian McFarlane Denny

Peter Andrew Smith

Fraser Brown

Several preferred embodiments are disclosed for a tool-less blade clamping apparatus for a reciprocating tool of the type which has a reciprocating plunger which has a tool attachment receiving slot for receiving a tool attachment of the type that has a shank portion. The clamping apparatus has an unclamped position and a clamped position. In the unclamped position, a tool attachment can be easily inserted and when it is in its clamped position, the tool attachment is securely retained. The preferred embodiments have at least one spring biasing the apparatus toward the clamped position, a releasable retaining mechanism for holding the apparatus in its unclamped position after being placed in that position. When the blade shank portion is inserted into the slot a predetermined distance, the shoulders of the shank portion release the retaining mechanism to move it to its clamped position. When a blade is to be removed, the clamping apparatus needs only to be moved to its unclamped position by manually rotating the outer sleeve or collar, and the blade is normally ejected from the mechanism by contact with the blade shoulders as it reaches its unclamped position.

Tool-less blade clamping apparatus for a reciprocating tool

A hot swap tray having a housing adapted to be slidably inserted in a rack. The tray includes an electromagnetic shield member mounted for rotation about an axis traversing the sliding direction of the tray. The shield has a resting state in which the shield presents a first dimension in a plane traversing the sliding direction and a deflected state in which the shield presents a second dimension in the plane, the first dimension being greater than the second dimension. The shield is actuated on insertion of the tray into the rack to move from the resting state to the deflected state so that the shield clears adjacent shields located within the rack and from the deflected state to the resting state so that the shield engages the adjacent shields.

Electromagnetic compatibilty (EMC) shield

A mounting for a computer accessory such as a hard disc drive comprises a tray (,) for accommodating the accessory (,) which can be inserted into a mounting bay in the computer against the bias of a pair of springs (,). The tray (,) carries a bezel member (,) movable along the insertion path independently of the tray to latch or unlatch the tray in place, using latching members (,) in association with latching tracks formed in the bezel, by way of a push-push action.

Accessory mounting for digital computer

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