Abstract: A method for installing cable in a building wherein the cable is to be pulled from a central room or closet to multiple outlets in multiple offices, the method comprising providing a spool of cable to be installed, providing a cable guide device having a plurality of apertures therein and identifying indicia thereon for identifying the apertures and corresponding to the outlets to which the cable is being installed, inserting the free end of the cable through an aperture in the cable guide device, pulling the cable through the guide member to the outlet whose identification corresponds to the identifying indicia for the opening in the cable guide member through which the cable was pulled; also a cable guide member and a cable installation cart which supports multiple spools of cable to be installed and one or more cable guide having removable indicia thereon.

Abstract: A method for assembling seatbelt webbing with a sill-end bracket using an apparatus for feeding seatbelt webbing through a sill-end bracket has a form-feeding member with a tapered channel for receiving one end of a length of seatbelt webbing on an assembly line. A webbing pull-through member is fed through the sill-end bracket and engages one end of the webbing. The pull-through device is then drawn back through the sill-end bracket thus drawing the webbing through the tapered channel of the form feeding member.

Abstract: A yarn blow-in valve is constructed of a base body and a connecting piece. This permits locating a compressed air line behind a cover wall, assembling the yarn blow-in valve, and then coupling it to the air line in a readily performed manner. In order to facilitate the assembly, a coupling device is provided to connect the base body with the connecting piece.

Abstract: An elevator guide system for flat rope tracking prevents the flat rope from hitting the shoulders on a rotating sheave to prevent premature degradation emitting objectionable sounds. The rope guide system includes one or more guide bodies having channels generally aligned with sheave grooves to which each block is adjacently positioned using a frame-mount. The guide bodies align the flat belt on entry into and exit from a sheave. The guide bodies may have a planar back surface, or a circular back surface, with the channel sidewalls disposed thereon and extending outwardly at right angles therefrom.

Abstract: An apparatus comprising two lateral guide devices guiding the paper web at the longitudinal edges of the endless paper web, and a deflection means is provided. With the aid of the deflector the paper web is deflected at least once from its direction of movement to increase the stiffness of the paper web while the paper web is moving between the lateral guide devices. Because of that, the paper web is prevented from ascending the lateral guide devices and a damage to the paper web is avoided when the paper web comes into lateral contact with the lateral guide device.

Abstract: A dispenser of individual sheets by unwinding from the center of a product in roll form, without a central tube, having a plurality of successive sheets forming a coiled strip, a free end of which projects toward the outside of the roll from the center, of the type including a fixed dispensing nozzle which delimits a passage of frustoconical general shape and which includes a generally vertically oriented cutout to make it easier to introduce the free end of the strip of a roll into the passage, the width of the cutout in the vicinity of the upper orifice of the passage being markedly greater than its width in line with the lower outlet orifice of the nozzle.

Abstract: A pay-out tube for container-packed coiled wire or cable in which the tube in use has a cable entrance end within the container and a cable exit end on the container exterior. The tube has a flange thereon adjacent the cable exit end and passes through a hole or opening in the wall of the container. The tube has a plurality of latching fingers extending from adjacent the exit end toward the entrance end and a flange adjacent the exit end. Each of the latching fingers has a camming surface and a carton wall engaging lip. The camming surface is so located that when the tube is inserted in the opening in the carton wall and moved longitudinally, the edge of the opening bears against the camming surface to force the latching arm toward the axial center of the tube to allow the tube to be passed through the opening.

Abstract: A method for installing cable in a building wherein the cable is to be pulled from a central room or closet to multiple outlets in multiple offices, the method comprising providing a spool of cable to be installed, providing a cable guide device having a plurality of apertures therein and identifying indicia thereon for identifying the apertures and corresponding to the outlets to which the cable is being installed, inserting the free end of the cable through an aperture in the cable guide device, pulling the cable through the guide member to the outlet whose identification corresponds to the identifying indicia for the opening in the cable guide member through which the cable was pulled; also a cable guide member and a cable installation cart which supports multiple spools of cable to be installed and one or more cable guide having removable indicia thereon.

Abstract: A feeding device is provided for forwarding a pliable thermoplastic rod into a heated pressure chamber for extrusion through an outlet nozzle to effect thermoplastic welding. The device includes a block with a machined channel through the block including an arcuate inlet portion for receiving the pliable rod and a tubular outlet portion dimensioned to closely surround the rod to prevent buckling of the rod for ejecting the pliable rod under longitudinal force into the chamber. A rotatable drive disk has an outer serrated cylindrical surface engaging one side of the rod in the arcuate inlet portion so that the rod is pinched by a counteracting surface portion in the channel in opposition to the contacting portion of the disk whereby angular movement of the disk around the disk axis acts to forward the rod along its length along the channel. The disk sits in a slot cut in the block with the channel at the bottom of the slot with the same width as the slot.

Abstract: A strip guiding device for guiding a strip longitudinally along a feed path has a limiting mechanism for limiting the strip transversely at opposite side edges thereof to cause the strip to pass through a predetermined position in the feed path. The limiting mechanism has a pair of abutment members having respective abutment surfaces for abutting against the side edges of the strip along the feed path. The abutment members are movable in first directions toward and away from the side edges of the strip, and normally urged by a spring assembly to move away from the strip. The limiting mechanism also has a pair of pressing members having respective slanted surfaces held in sliding contact with respective sliding surfaces of the abutment members remote from the abutment surfaces. The pressing members are movable in second directions transverse to the first directions.

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 centerflow rolled paper dispenser is provided in which the dispenser comprises a housing containing a spring loaded drawer member that is slidable between an open and a closed position. The dispenser includes an upper housing and a support member within said upper housing for supporting a roll of paper. Further, a lower housing is attached to the upper housing. An exit port from said upper housing to said lower housing is provided for release of rolled paper that is dispensed from the center of the roll through a predetermined dispensing orifice. Additionally, the drawer member is in substantially overlapping position with the exit port, the drawer member being spring loaded to bias the drawer member towards the open position to make loading a new roll of paper into the dispenser more convenient. A rotatable disk is provided with orifices of varying size disposed on the periphery thereof.

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: An apparatus for assembling seatbelt webbing with a sill-end bracket has a form-feeding member with a tapered channel for receiving one end of a length of seatbelt webbing on an assembly line. A webbing pull-through member engages one end of the webbing. A bracket sensor senses the presence of a bracket at a correct position in the bracket support. Means responsive to a signal from a sensor may be provided for indicating the correct positioning of the sill-end bracket for feeding the pull-through member through the sill-end bracket. Means for driving the webbing into the tapered channel are provided so that said one end is located at a predetermined position relative to the form-feeding member. A method of manual or automatic assembling seatbelt webbing with a sill-end bracket is also disclosed.

Abstract: An extension guide unit 30 is provided on a side portion of a recording medium conveying passage. An extension guide 36 is held in a wound state in an extension guide holder 31 of the extension guide unit 30. In order to convey a recording medium, the extension guide 36 is drawn out, by which the recording medium is guided. This enables the recording medium to be smoothly conveyed.

Abstract: A yarn unwinding tension stabilizer capable of stably unwinding a yarn from various types of yarn suppliers in such shapes as cheese and cone so as to effectively cope with such drawbacks as slide of wound layers on a yarn supplier and slippage of yarn loops therefrom due to the ballooning of an unwound yarn and so forth and a yarn unwinding tension stabilizing apparatus for a warping creel capable of simultaneously setting said stabilizers on the multiple number of the suppliers suspended on the warping creel in an easy operation. The tension stabilizer (3) is arranged by disposing the plurality of elastic wiring materials (2) on the opening (10) of the supporting member (1) in such a manner that said materials convavely curve towards the center of said opening and overlap one another. The frame, in which the plurality of said stabilizers are aligned in rows, is arranged such that it is horizontally movable as a whole.

Abstract: A sway reduction device having a cable receiving section, the cable receiving section being formed of a shock-absorbing material and comprising a flexure portion and an aperture for receiving a cable therethrough. The sway reduction device also includes a mounting section with subsections and at least one mounting member for mounting the sway reduction device to a surface. The subsections are moveable generally toward and away from each other whereby the flexure portion is flexed when the subsections are moved away from each other for installing the sway reduction device around a cable.

Abstract: A modified film transport roller for use with film handling systems to prevent the sticking and bunching of film due to build-ups of static electric charges on the surface of the film. The modified roller has a strip or layer of magnetized polymeric material applied to the hub between the end supports or collars, but of a thickness less than the height of the collars. The film rests on the collars as it passes over the roller and through the magnetic field, but does not come in contact with the magnetized layer. Static charges are polarized by the magnetic field. As a result of the polarization of the static charges, sections of film are not attracted to one another and the film does not stick or bunch as it moves to and from the projector.

Abstract: An electric-component supplying unit for feeding an electric-component tape which includes a carrier tape and holds a plurality of electric components at a predetermined pitch in a lengthwise direction of the carrier tape, and supplying the electric components, one by one, from the electric-component tape, the supplying unit including a frame including a tape-guide portion which guides the electric-component tape, a feeding device which feeds, in the lengthwise direction, the electric-component tape being guided by the tape-guide portion, and positions the electric components, one by one, at a component-supply position, and the frame comprising a main frame member, and at least one tape-guide member which is detachably attached to the main frame member and provides the tape-guide portion.

Abstract: A wire guide nozzle 1 is provided by a single member. The wire guide nozzle 1 is provided by a piece of long-size body 5 which has a nozzle 2 formed to penetrate the body 5 in the longitudinal direction and a wire check pin 4 assembled so as to cross the nozzle 2 and slide in the lateral direction. Provided at proper intervals in the longitudinal direction of the long-size body 5 are a plurality of wire nipping spaces 6, 7, 8 which allow rollers for interposing a wire 3 to enter the spaces.