Abstract: A cross-connect cabinet for an underground telecommunication installation wherein the bundle of conductors electrically connecting the splice connector with a pivoted terminal field is so constructed and arranged to avoid bending the bundle of conductors across the longitudinal axis of the conductors in a manner likely to cause fatigue or other premature conductor failure during the opening and closing of the terminal field of the cross-connect cabinet.

Abstract: A motorized rack system for loading and unloading long items such as ladders includes a static rack for holding one end of a ladder and a pivoting and extendible rack. The extendible ladder rack assembly includes a base member mounted to the roof of a vehicle, an elongated pivoting member, and a slideable ladder carriage member. The system also includes a mechanism for positioning the pivotable and extendible ladder rack assembly in a first locked down position of the ladder rack, a second tilted position, and a third tilted/extended position for loading and unloading a ladder. A cable is coupled to the one end of the pivoting member and a cable-spooling mechanism pays out and reels in the cable for positioning the motorized ladder rack.