Variable-type cable management and distribution system

A cable raceway for housing cables in a modular partitioned workplace comprising:

• a plurality of partition panels defining an office work area and having a height less than the ceiling of the office, said partition panels each having an upper surface and a first wall face;
• a plurality of cable channels having a width less than the width of said partition panels, each cable channel mounted on top of one of said plurality of partition panels, said cable channels adapted to mate with the upper surface of said partition panels;
• a plurality of cable channel caps each adapted to cover one of said plurality of cable channels, said cable channel caps comprising an upper lid and a means for securing said lid to one of said plurality of cable channels;
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• a plurality of routing conduits adjacent to and exterior to said plurality of partition panels, each of said routing conduits having first and second ends, said first end of one said routing conduits adapted to join said one of said cable channels with one of said plurality of routing conduits while redirecting a cable through a perpendicular change of direction without loss of operability of said cable.

A cable raceway for routing and distributing communication cables in a open office environment having a plurality of modular work stations formed from a plurality of partition panels comprising:

• a multi-user communication cable interface module having means for coupling said plurality of communication cables;
• a plurality of jumper cable means for connecting respectively, each one of said communication cables at said coupling means to a distant communication cable receiving device;
• a plurality of horizontal cable channel means mounted atop said plurality of partition panels and spaced from said multi-user communication cable interface module, each of said cable channel means having open ends for receiving and conducting said plurality of jumper cable means therein;
• a plurality of cable channel cap means each removably connected to one of said plurality of cable channel means;
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• a plurality of vertical routing conduit means for dispensing one of said jumper cable means vertically from said cable channel means to said distant communication cable receiving device positioned below said cable channel means, said vertical routing means adapted to route said one of jumper cable means from a horizontal plane to a vertical plane without loss of operability of one of said jumper cable means.

In a communication cable management and distribution system for use in conjunction with a modular partition workplace having a plurality of partition panels defining an office work area for a plurality of individual users and having a height less than a ceiling of the office, the workplace is to be connected to a plurality of feeder cables that are connected to the individual users by appropriate jumper cables connected to and extended from a common junction point to individual users, the improvement comprising;

• communication module housing unit mountable on top of a partition panel and providing a common junction point for connecting the feeder cables to the jumper cables;
• plurality of cable channels that are configured to be mountable atop the plurality of partition panels and connectable to form one or more raceways for receiving the jumper cables and extending from said communication module housing unit;
• a plurality of channel caps that are removably mountable on the cable channels to enclose the jumper cables in the raceways as the raceways extend along the top of the partition panels;
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• a plurality of routing conduits that are removably mountable on vertical sides of the partition panels, each routing conduit carries one or more jumper cables from the raceway on the top of the partition panel to the individual user.

In a communication cable management and distribution system for use in conjunction with a modular partition workplace having a plurality of partition panels defining an office work area for a plurality of individual users and having a height less than a ceiling of the office, the workplace is to be connected to a plurality of feeder cables that are connected to the individual users by appropriate jumper cables connected to and extended from a common junction point to individual users, the improvement comprising;

• a plurality of cable channels that are configured to be mountable atop the plurality of partition panels and connectable to form one or more raceways for receiving the jumper cables, the width of the cable channels are less than the width of the partition panels;
• a plurality of channel caps that are removably mountable on the cable channels to enclose the jumper cables in the raceways as the raceways extend along the top of the partition panels from said common junction point;
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• a plurality of routing conduits that are removably mountable on vertical sides of the partition panels, each routing conduit carries one or more one of said jumper cables from the raceway on the top of the partition panel to the individual user.

In a communication cable management and distribution system for use in conjunction with a modular partition workplace having a plurality of partition panels defining an office work area for a plurality of individual users and having a height less than a ceiling of the office, the workplace is to be connected to a plurality of feeder cables that are connected to the individual users by appropriate jumper cables connected to and extended from a common junction point to individual users, the improvement comprising;

• a communication module housing unit mountable directly on top of a partition panel and providing a common junction point for connecting the feeder cables to the jumper cables;
• a raceway, configured to be mountable atop the plurality of partition panels, for receiving the jumper cables and extending from the communication module housing unit;
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• a plurality of routing conduits that are removably mountable on vertical sides of the partition panels said, each plurality of routing conduits carries one or more one of said jumper cables from the raceway on the top of the partition panel to the individual user.