Cable Management panel with sliding drawer and methods
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Abstract
An optical fiber cable management panel includes drawer assemblies, each including a drawer slidable within a chassis. The drawer assemblies are secured together by a bracket that includes an interlock arrangement with the chassis. Such an interlock arrangement includes a non-threaded stud engaging a hole. Radius limiters may be part of the drawer assembly and include a cable entry aperture have a closed perimeter and a flared cable guide surface around most of, and preferably all of, the closed perimeter to allow for the entry of cables from all directions. A control mechanism controls movement of the radius limiter relative to the drawer assembly. The control mechanism includes a rotating member that has an axis of rotation transverse to the slidable motion of the radius limiter and normal to the radius limiter.
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10 Claims
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1. (canceled)
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2. A method of managing cables, the method comprising the steps of:
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a) providing a drawer slidably mounted to a chassis by a drawer slide; b) providing a cable radius limiter located at one side of the drawer, the cable radius limiter being mounted to a control mechanism having a wheel with a horizontally oriented wheel diameter; c) routing a cable within the curved cable trough of the cable radius limiter; d) sliding the drawer relative to the chassis, the wheel of the control mechanism contacting both the drawer and the chassis and rotating about a vertical axis during the sliding movement of the drawer; and e) moving the cable radius limiter at one-half the speed of the sliding movement of the drawer. - View Dependent Claims (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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