Cable management rack with pass-through tray
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1. A cable management rack for routing cables thereon, said rack having a front side and a rear side and said rack comprising:
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a frame-mountable pass-through tray disposed on said frame, said pass-through tray having a base and sidewalls defining a front-to-back channel in a center of the tray for routing said cables between said front side of said rack and said rear side of said rack, said pass-through tray including at least one upstanding spool disposed substantially at a center of said tray, a width of the front-to-back channel being substantially constant along a length of the front-to-back channel;
a rear channel adjacent to and extending substantially perpendicular to the front-to-back channel;
a slack manager having a plurality of spools at different elevations, the frame having a first vertical side rail to which the slack manager and tray are connected on opposite sides; and
an end cap connected to the slack manager such that the end cap extends substantially parallel with the front-to-back channel and the slack manager is disposed between the end cap and the vertical side rail, wherein the rear channel has openings on opposing ends, the end cap terminating one of the openings.
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A cable management rack for routing cables thereon. The rack has a front side and a rear side. The rack includes a frame, first and second frame-mountable components, each of the components having a plurality of ports configured for receiving an end of one of the cables therein, and a frame-mountable pass-through tray disposed on the frame between the first and second components, the pass-through tray for routing the cables between the front side of the rack and the rear side of the rack.
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1. A cable management rack for routing cables thereon, said rack having a front side and a rear side and said rack comprising:
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a frame; a frame-mountable pass-through tray disposed on said frame, said pass-through tray having a base and sidewalls defining a front-to-back channel in a center of the tray for routing said cables between said front side of said rack and said rear side of said rack, said pass-through tray including at least one upstanding spool disposed substantially at a center of said tray, a width of the front-to-back channel being substantially constant along a length of the front-to-back channel; a rear channel adjacent to and extending substantially perpendicular to the front-to-back channel; a slack manager having a plurality of spools at different elevations, the frame having a first vertical side rail to which the slack manager and tray are connected on opposite sides; and an end cap connected to the slack manager such that the end cap extends substantially parallel with the front-to-back channel and the slack manager is disposed between the end cap and the vertical side rail, wherein the rear channel has openings on opposing ends, the end cap terminating one of the openings. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A multiple-rack system of cable management racks for routing cables thereon and therebetween, said system including adjacent racks each having a front side and a rear side, each of said adjacent racks comprising:
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a frame; a frame-mountable pass-through tray disposed on said frame, said pass-through tray having a base and sidewalls defining a front-to-back channel in a center of the tray for routing said cables between said front side of said rack and said rear side of said rack, said tray including a rear channel adjacent to and extending substantially perpendicular to said front-to-back channel, said rear channel having openings on opposing ends, said rear channel containing a trough generally planar with and connected to said base and a rear wall on an opposite side of said trough as said base, said pass-through tray including at least one upstanding spool that is disposed at a center of said tray, a width of the front-to-back channel being substantially constant along a length of the front-to-back channel; wherein opposing openings of said rear channels of said trays of said adjacent racks are connected together such that said rear channels are contiguous; and wherein each adjacent rack further comprises a slack manager having a plurality of spools at different elevations, the frame of the rack having a first vertical side rail to which the slack manager of the rack and the tray of the rack are connected on opposite sides, and wherein the slack manager of a first of the adjacent racks is connected to a second of the adjacent racks such that the slack manager of the first of the adjacent racks is disposed between the adjacent racks; and an end cap connected to the slack manager of the second of the adjacent racks such that the end cap extends substantially parallel with the front-to-back channel of the second of the adjacent racks and the slack manager of the second of the adjacent racks is disposed between the end cap and the vertical side rail of the second of the adjacent racks, the end cap terminating one of the openings of the rear channel of the second of the adjacent racks. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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