Flush mounted outlet
AssigneeLucent Technologies Inc.
InventorJaime R. Arnett
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Abstract
An outlet assembly for use with optical fibers and, where called for, electrical cables has a hinged wall plate adapted to be mounted to an outlet box. The wall plate is adapted to receive couplers therein for receiving both optical fiber and electrical connectors. A storage spool is mountable to the rear of the wall plate for storing the required amounts of fiber slack and includes wall members and guide members for maintaining separation among at least some of the fibers. The wall plate has an upper portion which is pivotally connected to a lower portion and which can be swung away from the outlet box to provide access to the rear of the wall plate. A protective hood is movably mountable to the front of the wall plate to protect the various connections thereto.
Claims16
An outlet assembly for communications type cables comprising:
- a wall plate member having front and rear portions and coupling members accessible from said front portion mounted therein for receiving cable connectors and said wall plate member having first and second portions;
- at least one of said coupling members being accessible from said rear portion;
- said wall plate member having means for mounting at least a portion of said plate member to an outlet box;
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- said wall plate member further having a pivot connection of said first portion to said second portion for providing access to said rear portion thereof when mounted to the outlet box.
An outlet assembly for optical fibers comprising:
- a wall plate having an upper and a lower portion and front and rear portions, said wall plate having a first optical fiber coupler for receiving an optical fiber coupler for receiving an optical fiber connector for connection thereof to said front portion and an optical fiber connector for connection thereof to said rear portion;
- said lower portion having means for mounting said lower portion to an outlet box;
- said upper portion having means for mounting said upper portion to the outlet box;
- means pivotally connecting said upper portion of said wall plate to said lower portion;
- storage means for storing optical fibers mounted to said rear portion of said upper portion of said wall plate;
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- protective means movably mounted to said front portion of said wall plate for protecting said front portion and the connector and coupler on said front portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.