Abstract: An information medium capable of preventing inclination of tape reels driven for rotation. The information medium includes a pair of tape reels around which a magnetic tape is wound, a casing body rotatably accommodating the tape reels, and a pair of sheets in which a pair of insertion holes are formed, respectively. A pair of plate-shape spring members for urging at least one end of each reel body via an associated one of the sheets having opposite ends of respective hubs inserted into the insertion holes formed in the sheets are arranged at least one of a gap between one of the sheets, disposed toward one ends of the respective reel bodies, and one of main boards, and a gap between the other of the sheets, disposed toward the other ends of the respective reel bodies, and the other of the main boards.

Abstract: A barrier assembly for a wheelchair lift assembly is provided. The wheelchair lift assembly includes a lift frame and a platform reciprocally coupled to the lift frame. The barrier assembly includes a frame having a first side rail and a second side rail. The frame is coupled to at least one of the lift frame or a structural frame. The barrier assembly also includes a barrier slidably disposed between the first and second side rails. A drive assembly is operably coupled to the barrier for selectively moving the barrier between at least a stowed position and a deployed position.

Abstract: A theater rigging assembly having a beam, which is attached to structural support members of a theater or other performing arts venue. The assembly further includes a winch assembly and head block that can be positioned at any point along the beam and selectively fixed in position. The winch portion includes cables for raising and lowering battens or other loads. The head block includes head sheaves, which redirect the cables to loft sheaves that are selectively attached to the beam. The head sheaves are diagonally displaced to separate the cables. The winch portion includes a motor, a gear box, a drum and a brake. The brake includes a ratchet and two brake disks. It uses at least one friction surface that contacts at least one of the brake disks to cause a pawl to engage or disengage from the ratchet.

Abstract: A spool for a spinning reel is attached to a non-circular portion formed on a tip of a spool shaft. The spool shaft moves back and forth but is prevented from rotating with respect to a reel unit. The spool includes a spool unit and a bearing member. The spool unit includes a bobbin trunk and a drag accommodation part. The bobbin trunk is capable of winding a fishing line around its outer periphery. The drag accommodation part is formed on the inner peripheral side of the bobbin trunk. The bearing member is a tubular member made of synthetic resin. The bearing member rotatably supports the spool unit. The bearing member is arranged on the inner peripheral side of the bobbin trunk. The bearing member has an engagement hole non-rotatably engaged with the non-circular portion of the spool shaft.

Abstract: A teaser reel with an audible alarm and line guide provides awareness and protection while trolling for fish. The teaser reel alerts boat personnel that the dredge is being struck by fish and allows quick action to be taken to protect the dredge from damage or loss. The audible alarm consists of a cogwheel affixed to a teaser reel spool with a pivotable pawl positioned contiguous the cogwheel. As the spool turns the pawl strikes each cog in succession to emit a loud, shrill sound. A dredge line guide is also affixed to the teaser reel to prevent damage and injury to boat personnel from inadvertent unwinding of the dredge line into the boat.

Abstract: A winding machine includes flyers 5 rotated around a flyer rotation axis AXf orthogonal to the axis AXs of a rotor 2 constituting a work while at the same time winding wires 6 on core 23 of rotor 2. Rotor 2 is set in the winding machine in such a position that the center position of core 23 in the direction along rotor axis AXs and flyer rotation axis AXf are displaced from each other.

Abstract: A suction roller system includes a suction roller and a control head having a ventilation zone situated at a face side of the suction roller. The suction roller system allows rapid ventilation of the suction bores situated on the face side opposite the control head via a cost-advantageous and space-saving expansion. For this purpose, the suction roller is equipped, on the second face side, with a closure plate having an opening that corresponds to the ventilation zone.

Abstract: A reel unit of the dual-bearing reel is configured to support a spool, a spool shaft, a drag mechanism, and a drag adjusting lever. The reel unit has a first end member with a first opening and a first escape portion. The first opening accommodates a first flange portion and has an edge surface with a first facing portion facing towards the outer peripheral surface of the first flange portion. The first facing portion and the outer peripheral surface of the first flange portion define a gap with an axial length shorter than the axial length of the outer peripheral surface of the first flange portion. The first escape portion is arranged within the inner peripheral surface of the first end member and has a diameter larger than that of the first facing portion.

Abstract: A web conveying apparatus is provided with a plurality of web guiding rollers. The web guiding rollers convey a web on which a functional material has just been coated in a coating section. Concave portions and convex portions that have a substantially semicircular cross section are alternately formed on a peripheral surface along a circumferential direction of each roller. A pitch Pv of the concave portions and a pitch Pm of the convex portions are in the range of 0.01 mm or more and 2 mm or less. A height Hv-m from a lowest point of the concave portion to a highest point of the convex portion is in the range of 0.01 mm or more and 1 mm or less. A curvature radius Rv of the concave portion and a curvature radius Rm of the convex portion are in the range of 0.1 mm or more and 0.5 mm or less.

Abstract: A winding device (1) for a multi polar armature, which simultaneously winds a plurality of wire rods (5) onto a core (7) on which a plurality of winding cores (9) are arranged circularly, includes an index mechanism (11) for rotating the core (7) about a central axis thereof, a nozzle (3) for reeling out the plurality of wire rods (5), and a nozzle moving mechanism (12) for moving the nozzle (3). Every time the nozzle (3) completes a single revolution around the winding core (9), a twist (6) occurring in the wire rods (5) is undone by having the index mechanism (11) cause the core (7) to perform a single revolution about a central axis (T) thereof and having the nozzle moving mechanism (12) cause the nozzle (3) to follow the winding core (9) as the core (7) performs the single revolution.

Abstract: A insert type chain hoist includes a base disc having a transmission disc and a driving disc installed on a side of the base disc. The base disc includes a pivotal pillar disposed at the central position of a lateral surface of the base disc and pivotally connected to the transmission disc and the driving disc, a manual device installed on a surface of the base disc, and a driver for driving the transmission disc. The manual device includes a chain hoist drive wheel installed on the same surface of the base disc and the pivotal pillar for driving the transmission disc. The chain hoist drive wheel is connected to the manual pillar. A sleeve is sheathed onto an end of the manual pillar. A chain hoist is positioned at another end of the sleeve and away from the manual pillar. Users can use the manual device to roll a rolling door quickly and easily.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus are for applying a rotationally driven pressure roller (4) onto a rotationally driven goods guiding roller (3) in stretching equipment for thermoplastic films. The pressure roller (4) is advanced in the direction of the goods guiding roller (3) by at least one first pressurizable piston-cylinder unit (7) in such a manner so that after the advancement an axis-parallel remaining stroke exists between the pressure roller (4) and the goods guiding roller (3). Then at least one second pressurizable piston-cylinder unit (8) operatively connected with the first piston-cylinder unit (7) carries out the remaining stroke, while maintaining the axis-parallelism, until a touching contact exists between the pressure roller (4) and the goods guiding roller (3). Then the pressure roller (4) becomes effective with a nominal pressing force onto the goods guiding roller (3).

Abstract: A fishing spinning reel of the invention includes a spool wound with a fish line, a rotor rotatable through a pinion gear brought in mesh with a drive gear rotated by a winding operation of a handle, a switch mechanism including a switch lever capable of operating to switch a restricting state of restricting rotation of the spool and a free state of making the spool free, and a return mechanism for returning the switch mechanism brought into the spool free state to the restricting state by the winding operation of the handle. The return mechanism includes a connecting gear brought in mesh with a gear driven by the drive gear, and a kick member rotatably supported centering on the connecting gear, and a center of a mesh portion of the gear and the connecting gear is arranged on a side of the drive gear relative to an axis center of the pinion gear.

Abstract: The invention relates to a combination double bottom hook block in which two pulley blocks (2, 3) each with a plurality of pulleys are connected to one another by means of a rocker (1), a load hook being mounted in a pivotable manner on the rocker. If use is made here of two lifting cables, each of these lifting cables is led over a pulley block (2, 3) and, in order to achieve the same loading capability if use is made of just one lifting cable, the latter is led, in addition, over a floating pulley (2) which is mounted between the two pulley blocks (2, 3), the two pulley blocks (2, 3) also being secured against tilting.

Abstract: A power or manually operated winch mechanism for handling the running rigging lines of a sailing yacht. The winch includes a winding drum, operating in conjunction with a level wind mechanism, which winds and stores the line during line retrieving operations and controllably releases the line when desired. Novel level wind features enable the lines to be appropriately tensioned during retrieval, to assure proper windup of the line in organized coils on the drum. During line release, the line is placed under tension by the level wind mechanism and thus positively drawn from the unwinding winch drum even when the line is not under load from the sail to which it is attached. The arrangement enables lines to be automatically released from one winch and retrieved on a second which, under a common control, as when tacking or resetting the sails of a yacht, all without the necessity of any physical line handling by crew members, resulting in a significant improvement in the safety and convenience of the crew.

Abstract: A spool braking device and a spool braking method for increasing spool braking capability. The spool braking device includes a reel attached to a fishing rod in a detachable manner. A rotatable spool is arranged in the reel. A fishing line is wound to the spool. A brake mechanism electronically brakes rotation of the spool. An acceleration sensor detects swing acceleration produced when the fishing rod is swung and generates an acceleration signal. A brake control unit determines whether or not the spool needs to be braked based on the acceleration signal and drives the brake mechanism.

Abstract: Anti-curl control device for an automatic dispenser of wipe materials, of the type incorporating a housing with lid, fixed end plates supporting a drum incorporating a cutting device, a material reel wound on a core having end fittings and a press roller counter-bearing upon the drum. The anti-curl device comprises a roller having a peripheral surface with protruding griping feature. The roller is freely rotatable relative to supporting plates extending from a reel-holder end plate which is flexible relative to a fixed end plate. The roller is angled obliquely relative to the material reel and comes into localized contact along its generatrix with the last turn of the reel to ensure a braking effect. The roller is linked to rotation of the drum and the reel-holder end plate is elasticly deflected to adjust in position as the reel is unwound.

Abstract: An apparatus for winding wire about a tooth of a core includes an amount of wire, a winding member configured to receive a portion of the amount of wire, and a winding device operatively coupled to the winding member. The winding device being configured to apply a number of wraps of the amount of wire to at least one of a plurality of teeth of the core. The number of wraps including a number of twists that is fewer than the number of wraps.

Abstract: A guiding apparatus and method for a shift generated by a web during web transportation is provided, in which a coarse position guiding module and a fine position guiding module function to directly adjust the web so as to compensate the shift occurred during the process of transportation according to a position of the web. By means of monitoring a location of the fine position guiding module at any time, a reference of the coarse position guiding module will be adjusted when the location of the fine position guiding module satisfies the condition defined in the guiding method, so as to change a position where the web enters into the fine position guiding module.

Abstract: A winch assembly includes a housing member, a drum rotatably coupled to the housing member, a drive shaft extending through the drum and into the housing member, a gear train located within the housing member, and an actuation mechanism. The gear train includes a sun gear driven by the drive shaft, a ring gear, and a planetary gear assembly driven by the sun gear and including a planetary gear rotatably coupled to a carrier plate and engaged with the ring gear. The actuation mechanism includes a locking member displaceable between first and second positions and a biasing member having a radially extending arm engaged with the locking member to provide displacement between the first and second positions. The locking member rotationally fixes the ring gear relative to the housing member in the first position and allows relative rotation between the ring gear and the housing member in the second position.