Pivotable cover for sliding tray and sliding tray including the cover

1. A sliding tray configured to support one or more optical communications modules comprising:

a body portion having one or more mounting locations for the one or more optical communications modules;

a trough projecting from a front of the body portion and configured to support optical fibers connected to the one or more optical communications modules;

a cover pivotably connected to the tray and selectively pivotable between an open position providing access to the trough and a closed position covering the trough, wherein said cover includes a main panel having a front edge, a rear edge and first and second side edges with a front wall depending from the front edge of the main panel and first and second side walls depending from the first and second side edges of the main panel, wherein the cover is connected to the tray between a rear of the body portion and a front, outer edge of the trough, and wherein in the closed position, the main panel covers the top of the trough; and

first and second spaced supports on the tray, each of the first and second spaced supports including a first cooperating feature, each of the first and second side walls including a second cooperating feature, wherein the first cooperating feature of the first support attaches to the second cooperating feature of the first side wall and the first cooperating feature of the second support attaches to the second cooperating feature of the second side wall.

2. The sliding tray of claim 1 , wherein the first cooperating features are first and second openings formed in the first and second supports, respectively, and the second cooperating features are first and second shafts formed on the first and second side walls, respectively.

3. The sliding tray of claim 2 , wherein the tough is formed as a solid panel.

4. The sliding tray of claim 1 , wherein the first side wall includes a first stop wall.

5. The sliding tray of claim 4 , wherein the first stop wall is spaced from the second cooperating feature of the first side wall and extends away from the first side wall.

6. The sliding tray of claim 5 , wherein the first stop wall extends in a direction substantially perpendicular to a plane of the main panel.

7. The sliding tray of claim 5 , wherein the first stop wall contacts a side edge of the first support.

8. The sliding tray of claim 7 , wherein the first stop wall contacts a top side edge of the first support when the cover is in the open position.

9. The sliding tray of claim 7 , wherein the second side wall includes a second stop wall, wherein the second stop wall is spaced from the second cooperating feature of the second side wall and extends away from the second side wall, wherein the second stop wall extends in a direction substantially perpendicular to the plane of the main panel, and wherein the second stop wall contacts a side edge of the second support.

10. The sliding tray of claim 9 , wherein the first stop wall contacts a top side edge of the first support when the cover is in the open position and the second stop wall contacts a top side edge of the second support when the cover is in the open position.

11. The sliding tray of claim 1 , wherein the trough has a width between the body portion and the trough outer edge and a length between first and second ends of the trough, and wherein the first side wall of the cover is spaced from the front wall of the cover by a gap.

12. The sliding tray of claim 11 , including a plurality of optical communications modules mounted at the one or more mounting locations and a plurality of optical fibers connected to the plurality of optical communications modules, lying on the trough and extending through the gap in the cover at the first end of the trough.

13. The sliding tray of claim 11 , wherein the front wall has a width in a direction from the first end of the trough to the second end of the trough less than a distance separating the first and second side walls of the cover.

14. The sliding tray of claim 1 , wherein the cover includes a labeling surface and including a lens covering the labeling surface.

15. The sliding tray of claim 14 , wherein the front wall is perpendicular to the trough when the cover is in the closed configuration and wherein the front wall includes the labeling surface.

16. A pivotable cover for a fiber-supporting trough of a sliding tray configured to support one or more optical communications modules comprising:

a main panel having a front edge, a rear edge and first and second side edges, a front wall depending from the front edge of the main panel and first and second parallel side walls depending from the first and second side edges of the main panel, the front wall being spaced from each of the first and second side walls by a gap,

wherein the front wall comprises a labeling surface and including a lens mounted to the front wall, and

wherein each of the first and second side walls includes a shaft, and

wherein the first side wall includes a stop wall spaced from the shaft of the first side wall, wherein the stop wall of the first side wall extends away from the first side wall.

17. The pivotable cover of claim 16 , wherein the stop wall of the first side wall also extends in a direction substantially perpendicular to a plane of the main panel.

18. The pivotable cover of claim 17 , wherein the stop wall of the first side wall forms a feature for abutting an edge of the tray to limit a pivoting extent of the cover.

19. A method of attaching a pivotable cover to a sliding tray configured to support one or more optical communications modules comprising:

providing a sliding tray including a body portion having one or more mounting locations for the one or more optical communications modules; a trough projecting from a front of the body portion and configured to support optical fibers connected to the one or more optical communications modules; first and second spaced supports on the tray between a rear of the body portion and a front, outer edge of the trough, each of the first and second spaced supports including a first cooperating feature;

providing a cover including a main panel having a front edge, a rear edge and first and second side edges with a front wall depending from the front edge of the main panel and first and second side walls depending from the first and second side edges of the main panel, wherein each of the first and second side walls includes a second cooperating feature;

flexing the first and second side walls; and

attaching the first cooperating feature of the first support to the second cooperating feature of the first side wall and the first cooperating feature of the second support to the second cooperating feature of the second side wall, such that the cover is pivotably connected to the tray and selectively pivotable between an open position providing access to the trough and a closed position covering the trough.

20. The method of claim 19 , further comprising:

providing a first stop wall on the first side wall at a position spaced from the second cooperating feature of the first side wall; and

contacting the first stop wall to an edge of the first support when the cover is in at least one of the open position and the closed position.