Patent ID: 8164894

Claim:
A hardware holding device comprising: a chassis, the chassis comprises a front plate, a top plate perpendicularly connected to a top side of the front plate, a bottom plate opposite and parallel to the top plate and connected to a bottom side of the front plate, and two side plates respectively and perpendicularly connected to the top plate and the bottom plate and cooperatively form the chassis with the front plate; and opening is defined in the front plate for installing a hardware component; a bracket fixed in the chassis, the bracket is mounted on the top plate and the bracket comprises two first walls and two second walls perpendicularly interconnected the two first walls; the two first walls and the two second walls are perpendicular to the front plate of the chassis and cooperatively form a compartment communicating with the opening for accommodating the hardware component; the fastening structure is mounted on one of the two second walls of the bracket; a fastening structure comprising two levers each having a latch perpendicularly extending from one end of a corresponding lever of the two levers, and a respective elastic member of two elastic members arranged on each of the two levers; the each of the two levers being rotatably mounted on the bracket; the two elastic members being resiliently compressed between the bracket and the two levers to keep the latches of the two levers passing through the bracket and entering into an inside of the bracket thereby clasping and fixing the hardware component in the bracket; wherein the bracket comprises two shaft seats formed on the one of the second walls and approximately aligning to the opening of the front plate for rotatably holding the two levers of the fastening structure; each of the two shaft seats comprises two projecting lugs perpendicularly extending from the one of the two second walls; each projecting lug of the two projecting lugs defines a shaft hole; the each of the two levers comprises a pressing end and an opposite fastening end; the each of the two levers of the fastening member comprises two pivots perpendicularly protruding from two opposite lateral sides of the each of the two levers near to the fastening end of the lever; each of the two pivots are respectively received in the shaft hole of the each of the two shaft seats; two slots are defined on a lateral side of the each of the two levers around a corresponding pivot of the two pivots and cooperatively form a recess where portions of each of the two elastic members is received; and the each of the two levers defines a notch in the pressing end for providing an engagement with a corresponding protrusion formed beside the notch of the other lever of the two levers to keep the stability of the two levers.