Patent ID: 7378046

Claim:
A method for molding a rack-mountable manager, the method comprising the following steps: providing three first dies on a first side of a part line: providing three second dies on a second side of the part line; injecting a moldable material between the pluralities of first and second dies to form a shape of a rack-mountable manager; cooling the moldable material so that it hardens into the shape of the rack-mountable manager, said rack mountable manager comprising: an integrally molded pair of front and rear channels comprising a common base portion comprising front and rear surfaces for partitioning said front and rear channels; a pair of slotted front side wall portions extending from said front surface of said base portion, and a pair of slotted rear side wall portions extending from said rear surface of said base portion; each of said channels for retaining cables therein and managing the routing of said cables by providing original routing through said respective channels and slots defined by said slotted sidewall portions thereof; and a rack-mounting portion configured for being connected to a network rack, wherein said slotted side wall portions include a plurality of independently flexible adjacent finger portions defining a plurality of slots therebetween and wherein each of said finger portions terminates in a lip portion suitable for receiving an edge of a cover; withdrawing a predetermined one of the plurality of first dies in a first direction; withdrawing a predetermined second of the plurality of first dies in a second direction not identical to the first direction; withdrawing a predetermined third of the plurality of first dies in a third direction not identical to the first and second directions; withdrawing a predetermined one of the plurality of second dies in a fourth direction; withdrawing a predetermined second of the plurality of second dies in a fifth direction not identical to the fourth direction; and removing the rack-mountable manager from a predetermined third one of the plurality of second dies.