Patent ID: 8313247
Filing Date: 2012-11-20
Classification: G02B

Abstract:
1. An assembly of a mounting support and an optical fibre connector adaptor mounted on the support, wherein the adaptor has a connector-receiving axis and at least one lateral mounting projection on at least a first one of its sides, and the mounting support comprises wall members upstanding from the support on both sides of the said adaptor, which wall members on at least one side of the adaptor define mounting slots adapted to receive the said mounting projections of the adaptor, and wherein the slots are formed to permit movement of the adaptor between at least a first position in which the adaptor is supported with its said axis at an acute angle to the support, and a working position in which the adaptor is supported with its said axis lying substantially parallel to the support, and wherein the wall members define, in at least one of the said slots, at least one shoulder on which one of the mounting projections of the adaptor can be supported, and at least one resilient portion of the wall member is arranged adjacent the shoulder to retain that mounting projection removably on the said shoulder, wherein the adaptor has at least two mounting projections on each of its sides, wherein the mounting support has at least two slots in each wall to receive the mounting projections on each of its sides, wherein the mounting support has at least one shoulder in each said slot; and wherein the shoulders at one end are at a different level than the shoulders at the other end, whereby the adaptor is held at the acute angle by virtue of the engagement of the projections at varying height shoulders.