Telect, Inc.

Output Technology Corporation

Blaise G Blair

Paul Allan Knight

Reese G Larson

Teng K Moua

Ted C Vollmer

Lindsay D Standish

Disclosed is a fiber optic connector tray system for improved fiber optic cable management, especially in situations requiring higher fiber optic cable and connector density. Embodiments of the invention include tray bodies which are mounted to a framework and pivot or rotate to provide access to fiber optic connectors. The pivot or rotation further provides a mechanism to take up additional slack resulting from the pivoting.

High density fiber distribution tray system

The present invention relates to a ribbon guide assembly for a printer. A ribbon guide assembly (40) includes a ribbon guide (50) and a guide support (45). The ribbon guide (50) is employed on a replaceable printer ribbon cartridge to guide an exposed print section of a print ribbon (64) over a print head (80) of the printer. The ribbon guide (50) of the present invention has four members (56, 58, 60, 62) disposed between a bottom platform (52) and a top platform (54), whereby the members define a path for the print ribbon. The ribbon guide also has two collars (66, 68) coupled to the bottom platform and two of the members. Each of the collars defines a substantially circular opening. The guide support (45), affixed to the print head carriage, has two cylindrical alignment rods (90, 92) extending upward substantially perpendicular from the path of the carriage. The alignment rods (90, 92) of the print head are adapted to be inserted through the openings defined by the collars ( 66, 68) of the ribbon guide to securely support the ribbon guide.

Printer ribbon guide assembly

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Post Falls, ID, United States of America

Blaise G Blair