Slots And Fillers
Age‐related effects were however at work in the case of a slot‐filler activation: 4‐year‐old children considered the contextual/contiguity relations between the stimuli but did not weight the equivalence relations (i.e., same occurrence of responses based on the kind of object in the slot‐filler and in the thematic activation conditions). They may also take the morphology appropriate for adjectives and adverbs. In addition, they may occupy precisely the syntactic slot normally occupied by a regular noun or verb.' Fox, Introduction. Fillers, Pauses and Placeholders, ed. By Nino Amiridze, Boyd H. Davis, and Margaret Maclagan, John Benjamins, 2010.
1. A filler plate for an option card slot in an enclosure of a computer comprising:
a cover plate portion for substantially covering the option card slot, the cover plate portion having a first end and a second end opposite the first end;
a tongue extending from the first end of the cover plate portion for insertion into a capture slot located in the enclosure adjacent to the option card slot to secure the first end of the cover plate portion to the enclosure;
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first and second retaining tabs extending substantially perpendicularly from the cover plate portion for engaging first and second edges of the option card slot to hold the filler plate in position relative to the option card slots; and
a securing member extending from the second end of the cover plate portion, the securing member having a fastening slot for fastening the securing member to the enclosure with a screw for further securing the second end of the cover plate portion to the enclosure, said first and second retaining tabs retaining the filler plate in position in a manner that enables reduced handling when installing the filler plate including securing with the screw.
2. The filler plate of claim 1 in which the first and second retaining tabs are located proximate to the second end of the cover plate portion.
3. The filler plate of claim 1 in which the first and second retaining tabs are adapted to resiliently engage the first and second edges of the option slot to lock the filler plate into position.
4. The filler plate of claim 1 in which the first and second retaining tabs are bent from opposite edges of the cover plate portion.
5. The filler plate of claim 4 in which the first and second tabs curve outwardly away from each other and then curve inwardly toward each other.
6. The filler plate of claim 1 in which the tongue extends at about a 5° angle from the cover plate portion to spring load the filler plate when the filler plate is held in position.
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7. The filler plate of claim 1 in which the securing member extends perpendicularly from the second end of the cover plate portion.
8. A filler plate for an option card slot in an enclosure of a computer comprising:
a cover plate portion for substantially covering the option card slot, the cover plate portion having a first end and a second end opposite the first end;
a tongue extending from the first end of the cover plate portion for insertion into a capture slot located in the enclosure adjacent to the option card slot to secure the first end of the cover plate portion to the enclosure;
first and second resilient retaining tabs extending substantially perpendicularly from the cover plate portion proximate to the second end of the cover plate portion for resiliently engaging first and second edges of the option card slot to lock the filler plate in position relative to the option card slot; and
a securing member extending perpendicularly from the second end of the cover plate portion, the securing member having a fastening slot for fastening the securing member to the enclosure with a screw for further securing the second end of the cover plate portion to the enclosure, said first and second retaining tabs retaining the filler plate in position in a manner that enables reduced handling when installing the filler plate including securing with the screw.
9. The filler plate of claim 8 in which the first and second retaining tabs are bent from opposite edges of the cover plate portion. 10. The filler plate of claim 9 in which the first and second retaining tabs curve outwardly away from each other and then curve inwardly toward each other.
11. The filler plate of claim 8 in which the tongue extends at about a 5° angle from the cover plate portion to spring load the filler plate when the filler plate is held in position.
12. A method of filling an option card slot in an enclosure of a computer with a filler plate, the filler plate including a cover plate portion for substantially covering the option card slot, the method comprising the steps of:
securing a first end of the cover plate portion to the enclosure by inserting a tongue extending from the first end of the cover plate portion into a capture slot located adjacent to the option card slot;
positioning and holding the filler plate into proper position relative to the option card slot with first and second retaining tabs, the first and second retaining tabs extending substantially perpendicularly from the cover plate portion and engaging first and second edges of the option card slot; and
securing a second end of the cover plate portion to the enclosure by fastening a securing member extending from the second end of the cover plate portion to the enclosure with a screw, said first and second retaining tabs retaining the filler plate in position in a manner that enables reduced handling when installing the filler plate including securing with the screw.
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13. The method of claim 12 further comprising the step of extending the tongue at about a 5° angle from the cover plate portion such that the filler plate becomes spring loaded when second end of the cover plate portion is held in position.