Patent ID: 8143521
Filing Date: 2012-03-27
Classification: G02B,H02G

Abstract:
1. A cable trough for protecting and managing cables associated with equipment that has first equipment cable ports that open on a first side of the equipment and second equipment cable ports that open on a second side of the equipment, the trough comprising: an elongated trough body having a ported side wall constructed and arranged to mount on either one of the first and the second sides of the equipment; and the ported side wall of the trough body has one or more first trough cable ports each of which is located and dimensioned to align with a corresponding one of the first equipment cable ports when the ported side wall of the trough body is mounted on the first side of the equipment, and one or more second trough cable ports each of which is located and dimensioned to align with a corresponding one of the second equipment cable ports when the ported side wall of the trough body is mounted on the second side of the equipment.