Fiber optic splice cabinet

Claim 1

A fiber optic enclosure cabinet comprising: a housing having walls defining an interior; an access opening formed through said housing and exposing said interior; an access panel sized to cover said access opening and secured to said housing to selectively cover and expose said access opening at an option of an operator; a plurality of discrete individual platters disposed within said interior and each of said platters mounted to be extendable independent of others of said platters with said individual platters extendable through said access opening and completely returned to said interior at an option of an operator; each of said platters having disposed thereon an optical fiber splice tray and an optical fiber take-up spool; said platters are disposed in a vertical column within said interior and separated by a dividing wall from an optical cable chamber, said dividing wall having a plurality of openings formed therethrough each aligned to direct an optical fiber from said chamber to a spool of a platter; said housing has upper and lower walls each provided with a bundle opening formed in each of said upper and lower walls and in communication with said chamber and with said housing configured for a plurality of cabinets of similar housing to be stacked upon one another with a lower wall opening of a cabinet in communication with an upper wall opening of a contiguous cabinet, said bundle openings sized to pass a bundle of fibers into said chamber.