Patent ID: 6575654
Filing Date: 2003-06-10
Classification: H02G,Y10T

Abstract:
A flexible cable guide assembly comprising:a first cable guide member having a wall with first and second open opposite ends, the wall defining a first cable pathway along a longitudinal axis for receiving at least one telecommunications cable, the wall of the first guide member defining a longitudinal slot from its first end to its second end, the first end defining a socket; a second cable guide member having a wall with first and second open opposite ends, the wall defining a second cable pathway along a longitudinal axis for receiving at least one telecommunications cable, the wall of the second guide member defining a longitudinal slot from its first end to its second end, the second end of the second guide member shaped as a spherical zone and received in the socket of the first cable guide member so that the first cable pathway communicates with the second cable pathway; wherein the second pathway may be angled in two perpendicular directions relative to the first cable pathway; and wherein an inside surface of the first end of the first guide member includes first and second detent grooves, and further wherein an outside surface of the second end of the second guide member includes a detent bump, the detent bump received in one of the first and second detent grooves, wherein when the detent bump is received in the first detent groove the longitudinal slot of the first guide member is aligned with the longitudinal slot of the second guide member, and wherein when the detent bump is received in the second detent groove the longitudinal slot of the first guide member is not aligned with the longitudinal slot of the second guide member.