Cable exit trough with cover

US6535683B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• ADC Telecommunications, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Wayne Johnson · Port Aransas, US
• Brian L. Johnson · Lake Wales, US
• Thomas W. Kampf · Minnetonka, US
• Alex Watts · Chapel Hill, US
• Michael Wentworth · Belle Plaine, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 6, 2000
• Grant date: Mar 18, 2003
• Expiry date: Oct 6, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T29/49826
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A cable exit trough with pivoting cover. The cover having a cover plate and a pivot plate hingedly mounted thereto for easy access to the trough. The exit trough may define an insert aperture for receiving modular cable management inserts. The modular insert providing an additional cable management device such as a curved guidewall. The cable management device may alternatively be fixed to the cable exit trough. Removable snap-mounted flanges may also be included in the exit trough.