GB2444791A - Tables equipped with electric cable spools - Google Patents

Tables equipped with electric cable spools Download PDF

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GB2444791A
GB2444791A GB0625498A GB0625498A GB2444791A GB 2444791 A GB2444791 A GB 2444791A GB 0625498 A GB0625498 A GB 0625498A GB 0625498 A GB0625498 A GB 0625498A GB 2444791 A GB2444791 A GB 2444791A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H75/00—Storing webs, tapes, or filamentary material, e.g. on reels
    • B65H75/02—Cores, formers, supports, or holders for coiled, wound, or folded material, e.g. reels, spindles, bobbins, cop tubes, cans, mandrels or chucks
    • B65H75/34—Cores, formers, supports, or holders for coiled, wound, or folded material, e.g. reels, spindles, bobbins, cop tubes, cans, mandrels or chucks specially adapted or mounted for storing and repeatedly paying-out and re-storing lengths of material provided for particular purposes, e.g. anchored hoses, power cables
    • B65H75/38—Cores, formers, supports, or holders for coiled, wound, or folded material, e.g. reels, spindles, bobbins, cop tubes, cans, mandrels or chucks specially adapted or mounted for storing and repeatedly paying-out and re-storing lengths of material provided for particular purposes, e.g. anchored hoses, power cables involving the use of a core or former internal to, and supporting, a stored package of material
    • B65H75/44—Constructional details
    • B65H75/4449—Arrangements or adaptations to avoid movable contacts or rotary couplings, e.g. by the use of an expansion chamber for a lenght of the cord or hose
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47B—TABLES; DESKS; OFFICE FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; GENERAL DETAILS OF FURNITURE
    • A47B37/00—Tables adapted for other particular purposes
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47B—TABLES; DESKS; OFFICE FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; GENERAL DETAILS OF FURNITURE
    • A47B21/00—Tables or desks for office equipment, e.g. typewriters, keyboards
    • A47B21/06—Tables or desks for office equipment, e.g. typewriters, keyboards characterised by means for holding, fastening or concealing cables
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H75/00—Storing webs, tapes, or filamentary material, e.g. on reels
    • B65H75/02—Cores, formers, supports, or holders for coiled, wound, or folded material, e.g. reels, spindles, bobbins, cop tubes, cans, mandrels or chucks
    • B65H75/34—Cores, formers, supports, or holders for coiled, wound, or folded material, e.g. reels, spindles, bobbins, cop tubes, cans, mandrels or chucks specially adapted or mounted for storing and repeatedly paying-out and re-storing lengths of material provided for particular purposes, e.g. anchored hoses, power cables
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
    • H02G—INSTALLATION OF ELECTRIC CABLES OR LINES, OR OF COMBINED OPTICAL AND ELECTRIC CABLES OR LINES
    • H02G11/00—Arrangements of electric cables or lines between relatively-movable parts
    • H02G11/02—Arrangements of electric cables or lines between relatively-movable parts using take-up reel or drum
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2701/00—Handled material; Storage means
    • B65H2701/30—Handled filamentary material
    • B65H2701/34—Handled filamentary material electric cords or electric power cables

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  • Electric Cable Arrangement Between Relatively Moving Parts (AREA)
  • Unwinding Of Filamentary Materials (AREA)

Abstract

A cable spool dispenses and retracts cables of varying diameters from under a table to equipment on the table surface. The spool allows any standard cable with terminated ends to be fitted to the device, and has a coil spring to cause the retraction.

Description

Cable Spool This invention relates to a device for dispensing cables
onto the surface of a table.
Meeting or work tables require the facility to bring various power and data cables from the sockets in the floor to a wide range of equipment on the table top.
Conventional cable management is achieved by introducing a duplicate set of power and data sockets on or just below the table surface. This solution requires the end user to bring the correct connection lead(s) to every meeting. Furthermore, this approach usually produces a bulk of cables underneath the table that look unsightly and pose a risk to health and safety. In addition, the excess cables on the table surface have to be coiled and put somewhere.
To overcome these problems, the present invention proposes a device that dispenses and retracts cables of varying diameters from under a table to equipment on the table surface.
The power for this device is preferably provided by stored energy within a coiled spring.
The device makes use of standard, commercially available cables with terminated ends.
The device is suitable for use with cables that are sensitive to tight bend radii (eg.
CAT 6 data cables).
The cable spool remains in a fixed position under the table at all times and the cable is pulled from one end only.
The invention will now be described solely by way of example and with reference to the accompanying drawings in which: Figure 01 shows a typical table with a cable flap and equipment waiting to receive cables positioned on the surface.
Figure 02 shows the standard cables entering the cable spools.
Figure 03 shows how the terminated cable end is presented to the user beneath the flap in the table top.
Figure 04 shows how the cable end can manually be withdrawn from below the
table top.
Figure 05 shows the cable connected to the equipment.
Figure 06 shows the cable being disconnected and retracting into the cable spool.
Figure 07 shows a horizontal cross section of the cable spool.
Figure 08 shows (section B-B) the cable entering the cable spool from the floor Box.
Figure 09 shows (section A-A) the cable leaving the cable spool.
Figures 01 -06 are illustrations that show the cable spool in operation. The spool is located under the table in a fixed position. One end of the cable is plugged directly into a socket in the floor and the other terminated end is held directly below the surface of the table. The terminated end can then be pulled to extend the flex to equipment anywhere on the table. When released the cable will automatically retract.
Figure 07 shows a horizontal cross section through the cable spool. The device has one central pivot point with a coil spring attached. On one side of the central pin there is a large diameter spool and on the other side a small diameter spool.
Both spools rotate together and at the same number of revolutions per minute.
Figure 08 (section B-B) shows the cable entering the small diameter spool. The cable is tied (a) at the point of entry and the coil is tensioned prior to loading the flex. The cable is then manually wrapped onto the small diameter side. The cable then exits this side of the spool at a point on the circumference. Once again the cable is tied at this point.
The cable on the small diameter spool is free to unwind within the casement as, the spool rotates.
Figure 09 (section A-A) shows the larger diameter spool from which the cable exits the device. The cable is loaded onto this side by securing the metal case and then allowing the stored energy in the spring to coil the cable. This action in turn loosens the cable on the small diameter spool. The action of pulling or extending the cable puts energy back into the spring, tightens the cable on the small spool and empties the cable on the large diameter spool.

Claims (4)

  1. Claims 1. A device that dispenses and retracts cables of varying
    diameters from under a table to equipment on the table surface.
  2. 2. A cable dispensing unit according to claim 1, in which a single, standard cable with terminated ends is loaded onto the device.
  3. 3. A cable dispensing unit according to claim 1, in which the energy is provided by a coil spring.
  4. 4. A cable dispensing unit according to claim 1, in which the device remains static and the cable extends from one end only.
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Cited By (3)

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WO2010116033A1 (en) * 2009-04-06 2010-10-14 Presson Oy Cable interface furniture for a conference table
EP2456031A1 (en) * 2010-11-18 2012-05-23 Legrand France Electric facility including switchgear translatably mounted in an opening made in a wall
CH707097A1 (en) * 2012-10-15 2014-04-15 Bks Engineering Ag Device for storing and delivering cable e.g. patch cable, for data transmission in e.g. notebook, has housing comprising rollers for holding cable under stress load such that cable is extracted from housing against stress load during usage

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US4718741A (en) * 1986-11-06 1988-01-12 Luxor Corporation Electrified table and support structure
GB2239648A (en) * 1989-12-08 1991-07-10 Anthony Cartledge An extension lead
DE202004000442U1 (en) * 2004-01-14 2005-06-02 Kuschel, Rudolf Table to be used at science lessons, comprising submersible or swivel mounted energy supply units and water basin

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US4718741A (en) * 1986-11-06 1988-01-12 Luxor Corporation Electrified table and support structure
GB2239648A (en) * 1989-12-08 1991-07-10 Anthony Cartledge An extension lead
DE202004000442U1 (en) * 2004-01-14 2005-06-02 Kuschel, Rudolf Table to be used at science lessons, comprising submersible or swivel mounted energy supply units and water basin

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
WO2010116033A1 (en) * 2009-04-06 2010-10-14 Presson Oy Cable interface furniture for a conference table
EP2416678A1 (en) * 2009-04-06 2012-02-15 Presson OY Cable interface furniture for a conference table
EP2416678A4 (en) * 2009-04-06 2012-12-19 Presson Oy Cable interface furniture for a conference table
US8664527B2 (en) 2009-04-06 2014-03-04 Presson Oy Cable interface furniture for a conference table
EP2456031A1 (en) * 2010-11-18 2012-05-23 Legrand France Electric facility including switchgear translatably mounted in an opening made in a wall
FR2967834A1 (en) * 2010-11-18 2012-05-25 Legrand France ELECTRICAL INSTALLATION COMPRISING MOUNTED MOBILE EQUIPMENT IN TRANSLATION IN OPENING IN A WALL
CH707097A1 (en) * 2012-10-15 2014-04-15 Bks Engineering Ag Device for storing and delivering cable e.g. patch cable, for data transmission in e.g. notebook, has housing comprising rollers for holding cable under stress load such that cable is extracted from housing against stress load during usage

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