Abstract: A safety system including a web guide comprising: a load-bearing member; a roller rotationally supported in relation to the load-bearing member; a one-way clutch for permitting the roller to rotate in a first direction and for prohibiting the roller from rotating in an opposite second direction.

Abstract: A magnetic tape cassette and a guide roller in which the magnetic tape can stably travel and the magnetic head can read/write the record correctly, and a method of manufacturing the guide roller are provided. The magnetic tape cassette of the present invention comprises a guide roller (106) rotatably supported by the lower cassette half. The guide roller is almost in the shape of a barrel of which a coefficient of curvature T expressed by the expression [1] representing the extent of curvature of the circumferential surface is in the range between 0.001 and 0.01, and comprises a primary molding and injected resin injected within the primary molding for bulging said primary molding into the shape of said barrel shaped cavity that has a largest diameter at the parting line by the injection pressure.

Abstract: A tape guide device for a magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus includes a pole base assembly to guide a tape supplied from a supply reel and passed through a predetermined path to be moved horizontally to a read surface of a head drum. The pole base assembly includes a pole base installed adjacently to or separately from one side of the head drum during a loading/unloading operation of the tape. The pole base assembly also includes a pole unit including a spiral flange inclined to the pole base to be in a horizontal direction to the read surface of the head drum, to guide the tape entering the head drum to be inclined at a predetermined angle and positioned in the horizontal direction to the read surface.

Abstract: A device for guiding a flexible elongated element such as a cable or the like, designed to guide the element during a drawing process, and comprising several rollers mounted pivoting about an axis and arranged such that they define a space for receiving the element and whereof the contour is substantially closed, the shafts of the rollers being borne by a support capable of opening into two parts whereof one is mounted articulated relative to the other; a first part is a bent flat iron such that it is formed by three abutted U-shaped brackets, two brackets being arranged facing each other and coupled each with the end of the wing of the other bracket whereof the web extends perpendicular to the parallel webs of the two brackets and the second part is a flat iron bent so as to form a bracket similar to the brackets of the first part but whereof the ends of the wings, not coupled to the web of the U-shaped bracket, are prolonged along two lugs extending outwards of the U parallel to the U web.

Abstract: A twist controlling device for ribbon material wound in a coil about a central axis. The device controls twists in the ribbon material as it is fed from the coil to a processing machine. The device includes a gate adapted to be positioned along a ribbon feed path from the coil to the processing machine and having an opening therethrough for receiving the ribbon material. The gate is adapted to engage the ribbon and is rotatable about a gate axis generally coincident with a center of the opening for controlling twisting of the ribbon.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a film transfer tool which allows a transfer head to be disposed in any of spaces between letters of normally used word processors for implementation of a smooth transfer operation of film,

Abstract: A spiral winder wrinkle remover capable of wrapping a material of varying thickness into a structurally stable, smooth coil. As a material is supplied to the spiral winder, the collecting device, such as a spool, rotates and oscillates linearly along the axis of rotation to distribute the material along the length of the collecting device and form a structurally stable coil of material. As the material is directed to the collecting device it is threaded through a tilting guide. The guide tilts with the linear oscillations of the collecting device and maintains a uniform tension across the width of the material. The oscillations and tilting guide ensure that a material, particularly if the material's thickness varies along its width, is wrapped into a structurally stable coil where the layers of the coil are wrapped smoothly, without folds or wrinkles.

Abstract: A device for pickling or cleaning rolled steel strip which is moved in the form of loops through several pickling and cleaning containers arranged within a treatment line, wherein at least one strip side is subjected tot he action of a pickling or cleaning medium. For this purpose, squirting or spraying units are provided which can be switched on or off and/or are adjustable with regard to their spraying width and/or are operated with controllable squirting or spraying pressure and/or volume flow. Deflection rolls for deflecting the strip are arranged before and after the treatment line for deflecting the strip out of the horizontal strip running plane into an upright vertical strip running plane and vice versa, wherein the deflection rolls are elevated or slanted relative to the horizontal strip running plane.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method and a device in a paper machine, coating machine, intermediate winder, unwind stand of a slitter-winder, or in any other device for treatment of a web. In the event of disturbance, the web (P) is made to be wound in a controlled way around at least one web guide roll (18a).

Abstract: A winding flange guide (10) is utilized to provide a better quality wind of a strand media. The guide (10) has a first flange (12) and a second flange (13) which constrain the movement of the outer wraps of the tape pancake formed by the tape media. The winding flange guide (10) is utilized in a servo writer (20), tape cartridge (40, 60) and tape drive (80).

Abstract: A hose winder includes a frame, and a hose guiding device which is prefabricated and disposed in a chamber of the frame. The hose guiding device includes a first roller mounted on a first shaft, and a second roller mounted on a second shaft. The first shaft is slidably disposed in a first inclined track. The second shaft is slidably disposed in a second inclined track. The distance between two corresponding points of the two inclined tracks is variable, thereby enabling hoses of various specifications to be reeled out and reeled in between the first roller and the second roller.

Abstract: An air exhausting concave portion is provided on an outer peripheral surface of a paster roller that pushes a first web and a second web in their overlapped state. Both end portions of the outer peripheral surface of the paster roller are chamfered. The paster roller is formed like a crown shape.

Abstract: A tape roller bearing is provided that prevents the development of an air film between the roller surface and the tape. The spool surface is made from porous material so that air flows through the spool surface. The porous material vents air uniformly over the roller surface, and the tape remains in direct contact with the roller, even at high speed. The inventive roller has many advantages, including improvement of tape wear characteristics, enhancement of tape guiding abilities, and increased tape speed stability.

Abstract: A spiral winder wrinkle remover capable of wrapping a material of varying thickness into a structurally stable, smooth coil. As a material is supplied to the spiral winder, the collecting device, such as a spool, rotates and oscillates linearly along the axis of rotation to distribute the material along the length of the collecting device and form a structurally stable coil of material. As the material is directed to the collecting device it is threaded through a tilting guide. The guide tilts with the linear oscillations of the collecting device and maintains a uniform tension across the width of the material. The oscillations and tilting guide ensure that a material, particularly if the material's thickness varies along its width, is wrapped into a structurally stable coil where the layers of the coil are wrapped smoothly, without folds or wrinkles.

Abstract: A retractable hose guide for guiding a hose through and around gardens, flowerbeds and other yard emplacements. The retractable hose guide is permanently placed in the ground. It overcomes the problems of being a permanent obstacle in the yard, of being susceptible to damage, of having to be removed after each use, or of presenting a safety hazard. A hose may be moved freely around the yard, being guided by the retractable hose guide, thus avoiding damage either to the hose or to the landscaping. The retractable hose guide is placed in the stored position by pressing on the cover by hand or foot, compressing the spring and allowing the spool to be hidden in the body. The retractable hose guide is secured in place by engaging bayonet tabs into bayonet sockets by a simple twist of the cover by hand or foot.

Abstract: A passive installation reel stand automatically dispenses a flexible conduit pipe, such as irrigation pipe for underground sprinkler systems, in a desired position within a trench dug in the ground by a vibratory plow. The power of the forward advancing vibratory plow machine pulls the flexible conduit pipe from its spiral coil configuration upon a reel mounted upon the stand. The stand includes a wheel barrow-type carriage having one or more wheels, at a front end, and a kickstand at a liftable rear end with at least one handle. The reel is passively rotated by the flexible conduit pipe being pulled by a connection, such as a chain linkage, linked to the forward moving vibratory plow digging a trench for installation of the flexible conduit pipe therethrough. The coiled, flexible conduit pipe is mounted on the reel, fed through a guide opening, picked off the reel, and attached in the trench dug by the advancing vibratory plow.

Abstract: A tape guide that includes multiple spaced grooves or a spiral groove in the surface of the hub to bleed air from between the surface of the hub and the tape. The distance between adjacent grooves or turns in the case of a spiral groove is 2.4 to 3.7 times greater than the width of each groove or turn. For tape guides used with ½ inch type data storage tapes that have a nominal tape width of 12.65 mm, the grooves or turns are 0.30 mm to 0.38 mm wide and spaced 0.90 mm to 1.12 mm center to center.

Abstract: A safety system including a web guide comprising: a load-bearing member; a roller rotationally supported in relation to the load-bearing member; a one-way clutch for permitting the roller to rotate in a first direction and for prohibiting the roller from rotating in an opposite second direction.

Abstract: A modular guidance device for routing cable through an underground chamber includes a plurality of rollers positioned in adjacent relation. End plates hold the rollers in position. A support leg is connected to the end plates and a support member is secured to the support leg and is movable in different positions within the underground chamber. The support leg is further connected to articulation means for allowing the modular guidance device to be oriented according to the position of the support member during routing of the cable between inlet and outlet orifices of the underground chamber. The articulation means further includes two plates placed at right angles to a main axis of the support leg, the plates and respective support leg portions thereof facing each other and capable of rotating relative to each other and then fixed in position.

Abstract: A magnetic tape cassette and a guide roller in which the magnetic tape can stably travel and the magnetic head can read/write the record correctly, and a method of manufacturing the guide roller are provided. The magnetic tape cassette of the present invention comprises a guide roller 106 rotatably supported by the lower cassette half. The guide roller is almost in the shape of a barrel of which a coefficient of curvature T expressed by the expression [1] representing the extent of curvature of the circumferential surface is in the range between 0.001 and 0.01, and comprises a primary molding and injected resin injected within the primary molding for bulging said primary molding into the shape of said barrel shaped cavity that has a largest diameter at the parting line by the injection pressure.

Abstract: A recording and/or reproducing apparatus having at least one guide arrangement that facilitates recording and reproduction even when a tape edge comes into contact with an end flange of the guide arrangement. The guide arrangement structure preferable is in the form of a tape guide roller, for guiding a record carrier in the guide arrangement. There is at least one damping projection in the area of the guide surface. The damping projection extends in tangential directions of the guide surface and is adapted to damp axial relative movements of the record carrier with respect to the guide arrangement.

Abstract: A web-processing apparatus comprises a dryer with air-turn apparatus for flotatingly supporting a web and, preferably, for changing a direction of web movement. The air-turn apparatus may be used in the web dryer or with other suitable web-processing equipment, particularly in applications where a coated web side faces the air-turn apparatus. Preferred forms of the air-turn apparatus comprise a body having an outer surface defining a web flotation zone facing a coated side of the web and a plurality of openings in the body positioned along the web flotation zone. An air-conducting conduit provides pressurized air to the body and body openings thereby forming an air cushion at the web flotation zone on which the coated web is flotatingly supported without contacting the body.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method and a device in a paper machine, coating machine, intermediate winder, unwind stand of a slitter-winder, or in any other device for treatment of a web. In the event of disturbance, the web (P) is made to be wound in a controlled way around at least one web guide roll (18a).

Abstract: The invention is a retractable hose guide for guiding a hose through and around gardens, flowerbeds and other yard emplacements. The retractable hose guide is permanently placed in the ground. It overcomes the problems of being a permanent obstacle in the yard, of being susceptible to damage, of having to be removed after each use, or of presenting a safety hazard. A hose may be moved freely around the yard, being guided by the retractable hose guide, thus avoiding damage either to the hose or to the landscaping. The retractable hose guide is placed in the stored position by pressing on the cover by hand or foot, compressing the spring and allowing the spool to be hidden in the body. The retractable hose guide is secured in place by engaging bayonet tabs into bayonet sockets by a simple twist of the cover by hand or foot.

Abstract: A tape guide that includes multiple spaced grooves or a spiral groove in the surface of the hub to bleed air from between the surface of the hub and the tape. The distance between adjacent grooves or turns in the case of a spiral groove is 2.4 to 3.7 times greater than the width of each groove or turn. For tape guides used with ½ inch type data storage tapes that have a nominal tape width of 12.65 mm, the grooves or turns are 0.30 mm to 0.38 mm wide and spaced 0.90 mm to 1.12 mm center to center.

Abstract: A pinch roller includes a cylindrical elastic body formed of a polymer blend including acrylonitrile butadiene copolymer rubber (NBR), and at least one of highly saturated copolymer rubber containing nitrile group obtained by hydrogenating a butadiene part of said acrylonitrile-butadiene copolymer rubber, and ethylene-&agr;-olefin type copolymer rubber, and a resin sleeve press-fitted in the elastic body. The elongation of the elastic body is set to at least 5% and not more than 15%. A pinch roller apparatus includes this pinch roller.

Abstract: A deflecting subassembly 10 for the guided deflection of a band 12 consisting, in particular, of plastic may be provided, in particular, for a strapping machine 16 comprising a strapping subassembly 14, for the purpose of deflecting the band 12 in a region located between a band store 18 and the strapping subassembly 14. The deflecting subassembly comprises a deflecting roller 20, a band-inlet channel 22, which is arranged upstream of the deflecting roller 20, a band-outlet channel 24, which is arranged downstream of the deflecting roller 20, it being possible for the band-inlet channel 22 and the band-outlet channel 24 to be adjusted relative to one another, and an outer, flexible directing member 26 which bridges the interspace between the band-inlet and band-outlet channels 22 and 24, respectively, and is located opposite the outer circumference of the inner deflecting roller 20.

Abstract: In processing web material, the material is passed through a guiding arrangement which has a plurality of guide elements. In order to enable removing the guide element for repair without disturbing the web material, each of the guide elements is provided with a lifting arrangement which is concentric to the guide element and is movable from one angular position withdrawn from the path of the elongated material engaging the guide element to a second position lifting the elongated material off of the guide element so that the guide element can be axially withdrawn from the machine.

Abstract: A corona discharge web conveyance roller (10) and process for finishing the surface (14) of the roller (10) with plateaus (30) and down features (22) adjacent to the plateaus. Interconnected channels (30) formed in the surface (14) of the roller (10) by overlapping down features (22) comprise at least 50% of the surface area while plateaus (30) comprise at least 20% to about 50% of the surface of the roller. Down features (22) have depths greater than about 12 microns but less than about 125 microns.

Abstract: An anti-crimping roll is fixed to a vehicle moving in a direction perpendicular to the moving trace of a piston by way of a cylinder extending/shrinking the piston in a linear direction, and they are disposed at a position capable of moving along a longitudinal direction of a steel sheet within a plane in which the anti-crimping roll is perpendicular to the axis of rotation of a tension reel. A control device calculates an aimed winding angle of the steel sheet to the anti-crimping roll capable of avoiding occurrence of crimps based on a thickness and a width of the steel sheet, and drives the cylinder and the vehicle such that the calculated angle is aligned with an actual wind-up angle calculated from the stroke amount of the piston, moving amount of the vehicle to adjust the position of the anti-crimping roll.

Abstract: In a web transporting apparatus that transports a web while floating the web by jetting air from jetting holes formed in a transporting surface to the web, edge rollers that is rotatable and supports edges of the web are provided at both ends of the transporting surface. The web is transported while the edges of the web are supported by the edge rollers, and thus a floating amount of the web can be kept. Also, the supplied air can be prevented from escaping from a space between the transporting surface and the web through the edges of the web, and the web can be stably floated and transported with little air.

Abstract: A tailer for transporting coiled pipe and assisting in the unwinding of the pipe for laying in a trench. A support cradle contacts the outer surface of the coil, thereby obviating the need for a reel. The cradle includes self-centering support rollers upon which the coil freely rotates during the pipe laying operation. Horizontal rollers are provided as a retainer for engaging the inner surface of the coil. The position of the retainer rollers is adjustable to accommodate a variety of coil diameters. To remove coil set from the pipe unwinding from the coil, a reforming assembly includes a straightener and rerounder. The pipe reforming assembly is mounted on rollers on the base of the trailer for translating back and forth to track the pipe during unwinding to maintain alignment. The rerounder and straightener are provided with a releasable gate and top portion respectively, to assist in the loading and unloading of the pipe in the reforming assembly.

Abstract: A roll for a tape guide 8 and a method for manufacturing the tape guide roll. The tape guide roll 8 is molded by injecting a molding material into a pre-set cavity 22. The tape guide roll 8 is made up unitarily of an inner cylindrical portion 9, an outer cylindrical portion 10, and plural connecting portions 11, 11, . . . unitarily interconnecting the inner cylindrical portion 9 and the outer cylindrical portion 10. The length of the inner cylindrical portion along the axial direction is longer than the tape width, and the length along the axial length of the outer cylindrical portion is longer than the length along the axial length of the inner cylindrical portion.

Abstract: A combination flexible web roller guide assembly and an integral centrifugal pump (fan) functional device located inside the roller's outer surface where an air bearing flexible web support Hydrostatic air film is created upon the roller guide's exterior circular surface. The air bearing film is created when a web is mounted onto the roller's exterior surface with web tension applied and the roller's Outer Tube is rotated by some external means. This results in a web support device that possesses the advantages of roller guides AND air bearings, and none of their disadvantages. A highly reliable mechanical device is obtained simply by the incorporation of centrifugal fan-like vanes and an air path from the atmospheric exterior, to inside the outer tube of the roller into spaces between the vanes, and finally through multiple air ports located on the roller's outer tube surface.

Abstract: A magnetic tape cassette and a guide roller in which the magnetic tape can stably travel and the magnetic head can read/write the record correctly, and a method of manufacturing the guide roller are provided. The magnetic tape cassette of the present invention comprises a guide roller 106 rotatably supported by the lower cassette half. The guide roller is almost in the shape of a barrel of which a coefficient of curvature T expressed by the expression [1] representing the extent of curvature of the circumferential surface is in the range between 0.001 and 0.01, and comprises a primary molding and injected resin injected within the primary molding for bulging said primary molding into the shape of said barrel shaped cavity that has a largest diameter at the parting line by the injection pressure.

Abstract: A wire-winding device is characterized, by including a stand, a wire reel carried to the stand with an axis, a carrier with an axis parallelly arranged to that of the wire reel, a guide reel having a drum formed in a beer barrel with side-flanges and rotary supported to the carrier, an apparatus for movably supporting the carrier, and an apparatus for biasing the carrier in such a manner that a wire to be wound is maintained so as to be turned to the wire reel at a predetermined turning point.

Abstract: A mechanism for restricting a lateral position of a tape traveling in a longitudinal direction is disclosed, that comprises a base having a convex portion, a guide directly disposed on the convex portion, a lower flange having an opening through which the convex portion passes, the lateral position of said lower flange against said base being movable between the front edge of said base and the bottom edge of said guide, and a member for pressing said lower flange to the bottom edge of said guide.

Abstract: A cable deflection pulley pertaining to a window lifter comprising a drive unit, a guide rail for a driver which is connected to the window and to the cable, and cable deflection pulleys with a guide or bearing groove for the cable. The device has an axially directed assembly groove in the proximity of the bearing groove to facilitate and accelerate assembly and to reduce the amount of cable required. The assembly groove contains an area adjacent to the axis of the cable deflection pulley, and an area adjacent to the bearing groove, through which the cable is pulled from the assembly groove into the bearing groove.

Abstract: A dispensing system and method for premoistened wipes. The dispensing system includes first and second longitudinally extending dispensing guides. The first guide is positioned substantially parallel and in proximity to the second guide to define a gap. The dispensing guides may each be rotatable about a longitudinally extending axis and comprise cylinders having a plurality of lands and grooves. The wipes are dispensed by passage through the gap and a dispensing opening having an edge which is defined in part by an impingement surface. The impingement surface has a first outer portion, a second outer portion and a central portion positioned between the two outer portions. The impingement surface is configured whereby the outer portions of the impingement surface more forcibly engage the wipe into engagement with the dispensing guides than the central portion of the impingement surface.

Abstract: A method and device to support a storage tape of a tape drive in the event of a loss of tape tension. Flexible bristles are provided between a tape guide and tape rollers to prevent the storage tape from “falling” below the tape guide and tape rollers and maintaining the storage tape in a position to return between the tape roller flanges when tape tension is regained. In one embodiment, a plurality of flexible bristles are provided along a lower portion of the tape guide. The bristles extend toward a bottom flange of each tape roller in a direction generally perpendicular to the tape path. In another embodiment, the flexible bristles extend radially from the bottom flange of each tape roller. In either embodiment, the bristles are rigid enough to support the storage tape and flexible enough to enable a tape buckle to traverse between the tape guide and tape roller.

Abstract: A welding wire feeding system feeds welding wire from a barrel to a welding gun. The system includes a feed mechanism for drawing welding wire from the barrel and advancing the welding wire toward the welding gun. A free-wheeling wheel is disposed between the barrel and the feed mechanism and is freely rotatable about an axis. The welding wire is wound around the wheel, whereby a curvature is imparted to an otherwise-straight welding wire. Also, any twists generated in the welding wire at the welding gun will be stopped at the wheel before reaching and fouling the barrel.

Abstract: A molten metal is deposited on the surfaces of a metal strip by continuously dipping the metal strip in a coating bath. The metal strip is lifted at a constant speed while supported with a pair of upper and lower support rolls in the coating bath. The coating weights of the molten metal deposited on the surfaces of the metal strip are adjusted by wiping the molten metal with gases from gas wiping nozzles disposed above the surface of the coating bath.