US 12,221,810 B2
Apparatus and methods for securing an equipment cabinet
Rony Khalife, Coon Rapids, MN (US); and Kevin Roof, St. Louis Park, MN (US)
Assigned to Hoffman Enclosures Inc., Anoka, MN (US)
Filed by Hoffman Enclosures Inc., Anoka, MN (US)
Filed on Jul. 5, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/857,355.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/220,065, filed on Jul. 9, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0010900 A1, Jan. 12, 2023
Int. Cl. E05B 57/00 (2006.01); E05B 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC E05B 57/00 (2013.01) [E05B 1/0007 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An equipment cabinet comprising:
a door;
a first section hingedly supporting the door;
a lock on the door that is rotatable from an unlocked orientation to a locked orientation and includes an arm that, with the lock in the locked orientation, locks the door closed relative to the first section;
a second section hingedly supporting the first section; and
a securing assembly that is rotatable from a free orientation to an engaged orientation to lock together the first section and the second section against hinging movement relative to each other, the securing assembly including:
a knob with a pocket, the knob coupled to and rotatable relative to the first section to rotate the securing assembly between the free orientation and the engaged orientation; and
a latch coupled to the knob to be rotated by the knob as the securing assembly is rotated between the free orientation and the engaged orientation;
wherein, with the securing assembly in the free orientation, the latch is disengaged from the second section to permit the first section to hingedly open away from the second section; and
wherein, with the securing assembly in the engaged orientation:
the latch is engaged with the second section to lock the first and second sections together; and
the pocket of the knob receives the arm of the lock, with the lock in the locked orientation, to lock the knob against rotating the securing assembly from the engaged orientation to the free orientation.