Patent ID: 8165442

Claim:
An optical fiber management tray system, comprising: a tray or drawer including a base panel having a number of slots formed in the panel at determined locations; a number of retention clips for mounting fiber optic devices of different exterior shapes and dimensions on the base panel; two or more of the retention clips each has a main body with a different retention portion for enveloping at least part of a corresponding fiber optic device, and a pair of spaced latch fingers arranged to project from the body of the clip in the direction of the base panel when the device is enveloped in the retention portion of the clip and placed at a desired location on the panel; and the latch fingers of each retention clip have free ends formed to engage edges of one or more of the slots in the base panel at the desired location when the corresponding device is enveloped in the retention clip, thus securing the device at the desired location on the panel; wherein the main body of at least one of the retention clips has a pair of ears each of which is formed next to a corresponding one of the latch fingers, and the ears form slot openings dimensioned to receive and engage corresponding latch fingers of another one of the retention clips.