Cable management device
AssigneeCommScope Technologies LLC
InventorTimothy Jon HAATAJA
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Abstract
A cable management device for mounting to a telecommunications fixture includes an outer barrel disposed over an inner barrel, one of the outer barrel and the inner barrel defining a plurality of discrete detents positioned in a stacked arrangement axially along an length thereof, and the other of the outer barrel and the inner barrel defining at least one flexible cantilever arm defining a tab configured to lock into a selected one of the detents for allowing adjustment of a length of the cable management device.
Claims20
A cable management assembly comprising:
- a telecommunications panel including a plurality of shaped apertures arranged in an array of columns and rows;
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- a plurality of cable management devices having attachment structures corresponding to the shaped apertures for removably mounting the cable management devices to the panel at selected vertical and horizontal locations, wherein each cable management device defines an outer barrel disposed over an inner barrel, one of the outer barrel and the inner barrel defining a plurality of discrete detents positioned in a stacked arrangement axially along a length thereof, and the other of the outer barrel and the inner barrel defining at least one flexible cantilever arm defining a tab configured to lock into a selected one of the detents for allowing adjustment of a length of the cable management device.
A cable management device for mounting to a telecommunications fixture, the cable management device comprising:
- an outer barrel disposed over an inner barrel, one of the outer barrel and the inner barrel defining a plurality of discrete detents positioned in a stacked arrangement axially along a length thereof, and the other of the outer barrel and the inner barrel defining at least one flexible cantilever arm defining a tab configured to lock into a selected one of the detents for allowing adjustment of a length of the cable management device.
A method of using a cable management device, the method comprising:
- adjusting a length of the cable management device by relatively sliding an outer barrel and an inner barrel of the cable management device to select the length of the cable management device;
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- relatively rotating the outer barrel and the inner barrel and locking a tab of a flexible cantilever aim of one of the outer barrel and the inner barrel into a detent of a plurality of discrete detents positioned axially along a length of the other of the outer barrel and the inner barrel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.