Abstract: An improved apparatus and method for dispensing wire includes a shuttle system such that the wire may be rapidly and efficiently changed. In addition, improvements are made to the individual dispensing mounting plates and mandrels to facilitate the changing of the coils, and also to ensure smooth flow of the wire off of the coils.

Abstract: A severing and spool assembly employs various weakening devices and techniques to provide a shear force along a narrow elongate portion of the web. One method involves scoring a paper web being spooled in a manner to provide for a controlled tearing along the scored web across its width. A portion of the web adjacent the origin of the score is attached to a take up spool using an adhesive flag member. The change in direction of the spool from roughly horizontal to nearly vertical places forces on the web sufficient to cause web tearing in a manner substantially following the score. High pressure air may be used to assist the vertical turn up action of the paper onto an empty spool.

Abstract: A web winding apparatus and a method of operating the apparatus include a turret assembly, a core loading apparatus, and a core stripping apparatus. The turret assembly supports rotatably driven mandrels for engaging hollow cores upon which a paper web is wound. Each mandrel is driven in a closed mandrel path, which can be non-circular. The core loading apparatus conveys cores onto the mandrels during movement of the mandrels along the core loading segment of the closed mandrel path, and the core stripping apparatus removes each web wound core from its respective mandrel during movement of the mandrel along the core stripping segment of the closed mandrel path. The turret assembly can be rotated continuously, and the sheet count per wound log can be changed as the turret assembly is rotating. The apparatus can also include a mandrel having a deformable core engaging member.

Abstract: A method and device for winding a material or fibrous web, wherein a number of separate web rolls are formed around separate roll cores placed one after another and side by side, while being supported by support members and loaded by a load of rider rolls in rider roll units in a truncated rider roll unit. During disturbed winding situations when the web roll separate from the winding rolls, the attachment of the rider roll unit/units to the rider roll beam is changed so that the rider rolls load the web rolls that are in a disturbed movement with a load substantially higher than the rider roll load during normal winding.

Abstract: A wire reel stand that is capable of supporting multiple wire reels in its open position and is easily collapsed for storage. The stand includes a pair of "U"-shaped frame supports, with a central wire reel support rod disposed between the open ends of the frame supports. A pair of angle brackets, attached to one of the frame supports, is utilized to maintain the stand in a fixed, open position. Side bars are releasably attached to each frame member and, advantageously, remain attached to the wire reel stand in its closed configuration.

Abstract: A cartridge adapter, comprising: a case into which a cartridge of a photographic film is loaded, the cartridge, including: a door for shielding an entrance/exit port of the photographic film; a door shaft which is rotated in a first direction so as to open the door and release the shielding of the entrance/exit port, the door shaft being rotated in a second direction which is the direction opposite the first direction so as to close the door and shield the entrance/exit port; and a spool shaft which is rotated in a third direction so that the photographic film is wound around the spool shaft, the spool shaft being rotated in a fourth direction which is the direction opposite the third direction so that the photographic film is conveyed out of the entrance/exit port; and a shaft body which is axially supported by the case so as to be rotatable and which engages with the door shaft of the cartridge loaded into the case, wherein the case is provided with a slit port which, when the photographic film is loaded in

Abstract: A reel assembly for large packages of cable and wire. The reel assembly includes a pair of separate drum segments which, when assembled, form a hollow cylindrical drum for winding wire or cable therearound. The drum segments have inwardly extending beads which lock separate end flanges on opposite sides of the drum. The end flanges are of two piece construction including a hub secured to a skirt The hub has a lip for engaging the beads of the drum segments when the reel is assembled. The reel assembly has means for automatically releasably locking the drum segments to the hub lip when the drum segments side edges are urged into engagement with one another.

Abstract: A sub-system for controlling the flow of cable pulled from a cable pack by an automatic cable processing machine. The sub-system may include a barrel cap for containing and controlling the outward momentum of the cable over a cable pack such as a barrel and guiding the cable through a passage in the top of the cap. The passage is positioned in line with a center line of the barrel. A variable rate braking system may be positioned over the barrel and adjacent an outer wall of the barrel to control the circular movement of the cable as the cable is unwound from the barrel. A spacer may be positioned to prevent the cable from being pulled towards the center of the barrel or toward the barrel core and so that the cable engages the variable rate braking system. The system prevents cable from overlapping, entangling, knotting and snapping during the automatic processing of the cable for use in wire harnesses.

Abstract: A take-up reel with a cylindrical core is used to wind up an elongated tape such as a container tape containing small electronic components spaced apart longitudinally at uniform intervals. After the front end of the tape is longitudinally transported to a vicinity of the core, it is compressed against the core and the reel is rotated while the front end of the tape remains thus compressed against the core.

Abstract: A recording tape take-up reel assembly, comprising an annular hub having a top, a bottom, an axis of rotation and a radial surface, a first and second sub flange concentric with the annular hub, each sub flange having a top surface, a bottom surface and an outside circumferential edge surface, wherein the edge surface is adapted to have a tape wound thereon, and wherein the bottom surface of the first sub flange is concentrically attached to the top surface of the hub and the top surface of the second sub flange is concentrically attached to the bottom surface of the hub; and a first and second main flange concentric with the annular hub and the sub flanges, each main flange having a top surface and a bottom surface, wherein the bottom surface of the first main flange is concentrically attached to the top surface of the first sub flange and the top surface of the second main flange is concentrically attached to the bottom surface of the second sub flange.

Abstract: A roll towel dispenser is constructed to inhibit ingress of water into the dispenser cabinet during washdown operations. The dispenser includes a back housing portion for mounting to a planar mounting surface, such as a wall. A front housing portion is closeable on the back housing portion to define an interior compartment and a dispensing slot. The front housing portion and back housing portion define a lip and groove arrangement forming a labyrinthine seal when the dispenser housing is closed. A deflector shield is defined at a lower region of the back housing portion to inhibit entry of sprayed liquid through the dispensing slot. In addition, the latch mechanism utilized to releasably maintain the front housing portion closed on the back housing portion is constructed to inhibit ingress of liquid. A support structure located in the compartment rotatably supports the roll of towel product for dispensing through the slot.

Abstract: The distal end of a handle employed to rotate a line tightening mandrel has a line engaging stop thereon and a removable pin for holding the line on the stop to prevent the stop from working free of the line.

Abstract: Method of winding a strip of material includes providing a reel having a first flange and a second flange, with a core disposed between the first and second flanges. A cross groove is provided in the core, the cross groove being configured for receiving a strip of material therein. A strip of material is then provided in the cross groove. The strip of material may be a strip of the type having a plurality of wires disposed adjacent to each other. The plurality of wires may be glued together. One or more pegs may be provided to connect the first flange to the second flange. A tube may be provided in order to receive the peg. A spool of such wound strip material includes first and second flanges spaced apart by a core. A cross groove provided in the core receives a leading end of a strip of material.

Abstract: A method and a system are used for supplying printed products such as newspapers, magazines or brochures or intermediate products for such printed products (sheets, part-products) as substantially continuous scaled streams to a plurality of feeding points of processing stations. The method and system are designed to allow a supply which is as flexible as possible and at the same time economic. The scaled streams are continuous and are produced selectably from products in storage formations, e.g. rolls, vertical stacks, manipulatable stacks, spiral stacks. Discrete scaled formations are prepared in separate method steps in which different loading devices depending on the product formation and supplying devices are loaded with these scaled formations. Loaded supplying devices are transported to the feeding points.

Abstract: A tape cassette capable of permitting a parting line during manufacturing of a die for molding a casing thereof to be kept constant to accomplish joining between an upper casing member and a lower casing member with increased accuracy and facilitate incorporation of components for the cassette into the casing. The upper casing member has tapping bosses for screwing provided thereon and having the same height as a peripheral wall thereof. The lower casing member has tapping bosses, at least one of which also functions as a reference hole, and which have a height greater than a peripheral thereof. The tapping bosses of the lower casing member which are arranged on opposite sides of a front portion of the casing are each formed on a peripheral wall thereof with a cutout so as to fit therein a portion of a front wall of the upper casing member.

Abstract: A tape cartridge is provided with a cartridge case constituted by installing a cover on an upper surface of a base plate, a magnetic tape runningly installed in the cartridge case, and a drive belt for running the magnetic tape.The base plate includes a hard protective coat layer at its upper and lower surface or either of upper and lower surfaces.The base plate is formed by punching a base plate material sheet covered with the protective coat layer into a predetermined shape.

Abstract: A resin pulley was made of a resin material wherein an inorganic fiber such as glass fiber, an inorganic powder such as silica powder, an organic fiber such as cotton cloth fiber, and an elastomer are blended in a phenol resin.Each content of the inorganic fiber, inorganic powder, organic fiber and elastomer in the above resin material is within the following range.

Abstract: A film feeding apparatus includes a roller pair for pinching a film stored and wound within a film container or its leader, and a restricting passage for restricting a posture of a non-pinched portion of the film or its leader. The roller pair is disposed in such a manner that the film or its leader is entrained about one roller of the roller pair in an arcuate form toward an upstream side in a film feeding direction relative to a pinching position of the roller pair. With driving rotation of the roller pair pinching the film or its leader, the film is withdrawn from the film container held at a holding portion to be fed to a film processing section. The restricting passage is curved along an entraining passage of the roller for the film or its leader as the restricting passage is viewed in a direction of an axis of the roller.

Abstract: A conventional webbing-locking inertia reel is modified by integration of a device for the prevention of slap-back lock of the inertia reel upon excessively rapid retraction of the webbing worn by a seat occupant as a safety belt and/or harness. The device also slows the retraction of the webbing enough to prevent a hard collision of the webbing stop at the inertia reel. This is accomplished by interacting the reel shaft with a specially designed damping disk so that both the shaft and the damping disk rotate counter-clockwise when an external force pulls the webbing from its rotatable spool, while simultaneously the shaft also interacts with a conventional housed return spring, causing it to wind and build up a rewinding force, which, when the external force is removed or ceases, causes rotation of the shaft, spool, and damping disk clockwise and rewinds the webbing on the spool.

Abstract: A tape hub including a support portion defining a peripheral surface around an axis adapted to frictionally receive a cylindrical inner surface of a core wound with tape, and axially spaced radial projections and locating members on the tape hub for positioning a first edge of the length of tape wrapped around the core at either of two discrete tape edge positions axially with respect to the hub. The tape hub is useful on devices that adhere tape along one edge of masking material to afford selecting different amounts of overlap between the tape and the masking material. The tape hub can have a plurality of radially extending hub portions having spaces therebetween and axially extending ribs on the hub portions defining its peripheral surface with the peripheral surface being adapted to frictionally receive the cylindrical inner surface of cores of slightly different inner diameters.