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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 1996
Filed:
Oct. 25, 1994
Lowell M Good, Cypress, TX (US);
Paily T Varghese, Tomball, TX (US);
Joseph A Villanueva, Spring, TX (US);
Compaq Computer Corporation, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
In a rack-mounted computer system a server unit drawer structure is mounted between spaced pairs of front and rear corner support channel portions of the server cabinet using a pair of specially designed slide support brackets, each positioned on a different side of the drawer structure and extending completely between its associated pair of front and rear corner support channels. Front ends of the brackets have vertically spaced alignment tabs that are complementarily received in openings in side flange portions of the front corner channels and serve to precisely align the front bracket ends, and thus the front end wall of the drawer structure, with the cabinet framework in both horizontal directions. The front and rear ends of the brackets are secured to their associated support channels with threaded fasteners. The drawer is slidably mounted on the installed brackets using a conventional telescoping slide structure having a front end portions secured to opposite side walls of the drawer, and rear end portions secured to the brackets. The attachment of the rear slide structure end portions to their associated support brackets is substantially facilitated by horizontally series of nut members captively retained on the brackets. Threaded fasteners are extended through spaced series of openings in the rear slide structure end portions and threaded into the captively retained nut members on the slide support brackets.