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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2000
Carl G. Harrison, Plano, TX (US);
Michael A. Mandry, Frisco, TX (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A cable storage apparatus including a spool for holding cable. The spool having an S shaped cable pathway for connecting a first circumferential cable pathway with a second circumferential cable pathway. In one embodiment, the spool includes an S shaped groove extending through the middle portion of the spool to define the S shaped cable pathway. In one embodiment, the radiuses of the arc pathways of the S shaped cable pathway are designed to meet the minimum bending requirements of the cable to be stored on the spool. In one embodiment, cable is stored in the spool by first inserting a middle portion of cable to be stored in the spool in S shaped cable pathway and then rotating the spool in a first direction. The rotation causes a first portion of the cable to be rolled in the first circumferential cable pathway and a second portion of the cable to be rolled in the second circumferential cable pathway. The spool can be utilized to store fiber optic cable. In one example, the spool is attached to a fiber optic carrier for storing excess cable held in the carrier.