Patent ID: 9564178
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: G11B,Y10T

Claim:
1. An apparatus for supporting storage devices during manufacturing, the apparatus comprising: structural members; plural slot carriers received in bays in the apparatus, each slot carrier carrying at least one slot arranged to receive a storage device, wherein the slot carriers are insertable into, or removable from, the bays through apertures at a front of the apparatus; clamp assemblies arranged to releasably clamp the slot carrier to one or more structural members at sides of the slot carrier; and a rail at each side of the slot carrier such that the slot carrier is slidably insertable into, or slidably removable from, a respective one on the bays on the rails, wherein a clamping mechanism provided by at least one of the rails is an expandable rail assembly, wherein the expandable rail assembly is operably expandable to clamp opposed surfaces of a channel in which the expandable rail assembly is received.