Pivotable cover for sliding tray and sliding tray including the cover
AssigneeCommScope, Inc. of North Carolina
InventorGil Ruiz
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Abstract
A sliding tray is configured to support one or more optical communications modules and includes a body portion having one or more mounting locations for the one or more optical communications modules, a trough projecting from the body portion and configured to support optical fibers connected to the one or more optical communications modules, and a cover pivotably connected to the tray for selectively covering the trough.
Claims20
A sliding tray configured to support one or more optical communications modules comprising:
- a body portion having one or more mounting locations for the one or more optical communications modules;
- a trough projecting from a front of the body portion and configured to support optical fibers connected to the one or more optical communications modules;
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- a cover pivotably connected to the tray and selectively pivotable between an open position providing access to the trough and a closed position covering the trough,
- wherein said cover includes a main panel having a front edge, a rear edge and first and second side edges with a front wall depending from the front edge of the main panel,
- wherein the cover is connected to the tray near a junction of the body portion and the trough, and
- wherein in the closed position, the main panel covers the top of the trough and the front wall covers a front of the trough.
A shelf comprising:
- a shelf opening;
- a plurality of trays mounted for sliding movement relative to the shelf opening, each of the plurality of trays including a body portion having a plurality of mounting locations adapted to receive a plurality of optical communications modules, a trough projecting from a front of the body portion and configured to support optical fibers connected to the optical communications modules, and a pivotable cover configured to selectively cover the trough;
- wherein each of the plurality of trays is configured to slide between a stowed position wherein the trough is located a first distance from the shelf opening and an extended position wherein the trough is located a second distance greater than the first distance from the shelf opening, and
- wherein a cover of a first one of the plurality of sliding trays is substantially prevented from opening by a bottom surface of an adjacent sliding tray of the plurality of sliding trays being in a pivot path of the pivotable cover when the first one of the sliding trays and adjacent one of the sliding trays are in the stowed position.
A pivotable cover for a fiber-supporting trough of a sliding tray configured to support one or more optical communications modules comprising:
- a main panel having a front edge, a rear edge and first and second side edges, a front wall depending from the front edge of the main panel and first and second parallel side walls depending from the first and second side edges of the main panel and extending rearwardly of the rear edge of the main panel, the front wall being spaced from each of the first and second side walls by a gap,
- wherein the front wall comprises a labeling surface and including a lens mounted to the front wall.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.