US Patent 7298951 Cable management device and method

A cable management device, and associated assembly including a panel. The device including a segmented cable-managing arrangement having a plurality of radius limiting surfaces vertically and forwardly offset from one another. The device provides a number of incremental slack cable storage lengths that accommodates storage of slack cable without the occasion of loose slack. The assembly can include a single device used in combination with one or more other cable management devices, or nested devices to add to the versatility in accommodating various slack cable lengths.