Patent ID: 8157201

Claim:
An assembly of electrical or communications cable containers, comprising: a first container including a first carton enclosing a first cable reel with cable wound thereon, the first carton having a plurality of panels including a bottom panel with opposed left and right sides, a front side, and a bottom elongate pass-through slot formed in the bottom panel; an upstanding left panel extending from the left side of the bottom panel; an upstanding right panel extending from the right side of the bottom panel so as to be parallel and spaced from the left panel; a front panel having an elongated slot and extending from the front side of the bottom panel; a top panel having a top elongate pass-through slot, the top panel being parallel to the bottom panel; a second container including a second carton enclosing a second cable reel with cable wound thereon, the second carton including a second top panel having a second top elongate pass-through slot; the first container being stacked on the second container such that a location of the bottom pass-through slot of the first carton matches a location of the top pass-through slot of the second carton, a cable end from the second cable reel fed through the top pass-through slot of the second carton, the bottom pass-through slot of the first carton, and the top pass-through slot of the first carton.