Patent ID: 6981750
Filing Date: 2006-01-03
Classification: H04Q,H05K,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A telecommunications assembly comprising: a telecommunications rack; a door; a hinge rotatably mounting the door to the telecommunications rack, the hinge including; a first hinge including a single pin removably and rotatably situated within a single mating socket, one of the pin or the socket attached to the door and the other attached to the rack, the socket defining a first axis of insertion of the pin and the pin rotating about the first axis of insertion; a single slide mounted to the telecommunications rack adjacent and above the socket of the first hinge and movable between a captive position and a retracted position; the slide spaced apart from the socket of the first hinge so that the slide in the captive position extends across the first axis of insertion of the pin of the first hinge and the pin of the first hinge cannot be removed from the socket of the first hinge, and the slide in the retracted position does not extend across the first axis of insertion, allowing the door to be lifted generally parallel to the first axis of insertion relative to the telecommunications rack and the pin of the first hinge to be removed from the socket of the first hinge.