Patent ID: 6505898
Filing Date: 2003-01-14
Classification: A47B

Abstract:
An entertainment center system with wings for obscuring unsightly wires while abating overheating and facilitating size adjustments comprising, in combination:a cabinet in a generally rectilinear configuration having a generally horizontal planar bottom and a generally horizontal top panel and having parallel generally vertical side panels between the bottom and the top panel, the cabinet also having an open back with a small peripheral surface including vertical edges adjacent to the side panels, the cabinet also having a front formed of a plurality of openable doors and an opening extending there through from the front to the back with horizontal shelving there within supporting electronic entertainment equipment including a television set, the equipment having electrical wires with plugs extending rearwardly there from for coupling to a source of electrical potential; a volumetric space formed by a vertical wall located rearwardly by a predetermined distance from the back of the cabinet and bounded vertically by the bottom and top panel and horizontally by the side panels of the cabinet, the wall having an electric outlet for receiving the plugs; a pair of similarly configured pivotal plates, each of the plates being in a generally rectangular configuration with a front face and a rear face and having a top edge and a parallel bottom edge with a length essentially equal to the predetermined distance, each of the plates also having an interior edge and a parallel exterior edge with a height essentially equal to the height of the side panels, each of the panels also being formed with three elongated vertical apertures sized to constitute more than 50 percent of the area of each plate with a mesh fabric within the apertures to allow the flow of cooling air there through but to obscure the viewing of the wires within the volumetric space; and a pair of hinges coupled to the rear face of each pivotal plate adjacent to the interior edge and also coupled to an associated vertical edge of the cabinet to thereby allow each panel to pivot between a first position parallel with and in proximity to the back of the cabinet and a second position essentially parallel with the side panels and between the side panels and the wall to thereby obscure the wires located within the volumetric space.