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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 1995
Filed:
Sep. 09, 1993
Robert J Hastings, Kingwood, TX (US);
Paily T Varghese, Tomball, TX (US);
Compaq Computer Corporation, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A vertically elongated computer system tower unit has an internal sheet metal chassis portion having a bottom base wall to the underside of which four specially designed molded plastic stabilizing foot members are directly connected without the use of mounting screws or other separate mounting structures. Each support foot has a pair of top side retaining projections that are received in complementarily configured openings in the chassis base wall in a manner holding the foot member on the base wall and permitting the foot member to pivot between an initial installation position in which the projections may be inserted into or removed through the wall openings with the foot member underlying the base wall, a retracted position in which the foot member is pivoted outwardly from the installation position and underlies the base wall, and an extended position in which the foot member projects outwardly beyond the base wall and stabilizes the tower unit. A latch portion snaps into a base wall opening when the foot member is outwardly pivoted to its extended position to releasably lock the foot member in the extended position, and also snaps into another base wall opening to releasably prevent the foot member from being inwardly pivoted from its retracted position to its initial installation position.