Patents Assigned to Reel
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Patent number: 4796831Abstract: A multiplier or multiple-action fly casting reel incorporates an anti-reverse mechanism so that when line is withdrawn from the reel, the crank handle becomes disengaged from the spool, but when withdrawal of line ceases, the handle and spool automatically reengage for rewind of the line. A multiplier gear assembly is mounted on a pivoted cluster bracket which is moved between engaged and disengaged positions by action of a one-way friction clutch associated with a spool. A spring returns the cluster bracket to the home position when there is no withdrawal of the line.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 1987Date of Patent: January 10, 1989Assignee: Martin Automatic Fishing Reel Co., Inc.Inventor: William G. Sheppard
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Patent number: 4736861Abstract: Substantially slip and skid resistant reel carriers are disclosed for storing, carrying and shipping reels of motion picture film, videotape, magnetic tape and the like. The reel carriers include a plurality of tapered cylindrical bumpers or feet formed of a material having a high coefficient of friction which are adhered to the external surfaces of the top and bottom walls of the reel carrier. In preferred embodiment the bumpers are formed of a polypropylene-butaliene copolymer and are riveted to the reel carrier. The reel carriers exhibit satisfactory functional affinity for conveyor belts and are well suited for shipping and handling by contemporary automated shipping equipment.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 1982Date of Patent: April 12, 1988Assignee: Plastic Reel Corp. of AmericaInventor: Robert A. Basili
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Patent number: 4662078Abstract: Disclosed herewith is an improved reel assembly for surveyors and other construction trades wherein the resilient member that retrieves the plumb line or string is entirely enclosed in the spool assembly that is contained within the housing of the reel assembly. The spool assembly is formed so that it is difficult to obtain access to the resilient member thereby precluding inadvertent release of the spring assembly.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 1986Date of Patent: May 5, 1987Assignee: Gammon Reel, Inc.Inventors: Norman P. Gammon, Phillip R. Gammon
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Patent number: 4583714Abstract: A truck mounted hydraulic cable reel apparatus for heavy power cable includes bed frame members supporting a circular turntable. A motor rotates the turntable 45.degree. to either side of a longitudinal center line. Two vertical stanchions are mounted on the turntable. One stanchion supports a tail stock assembly, and a second supports a reel drive assembly. The drive assembly includes a reel drive shaft connected at one end to a hydraulic motor and having a reel drive face plate on the other end. The face plate has lugs which engage lugs on an end of the cable reel spool shaft. The hydraulic motor reversely rotates the cable spool to wind in or pay out power cable. Vertical guide rollers are disposed at either end of the horizontal cable roller. Telescoping outrigger booms are adjustably positioned on either side of the bed frame. Multiple guide rollers on the ends of the booms open and lock closed to capture the power cable and to act as outriggers when laying or retrieving cable.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 1983Date of Patent: April 22, 1986Assignee: Hy-Reel Machinery, Inc.Inventor: Lance D. Ridgway
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Patent number: 4476990Abstract: Substantially slip and skid resistant reel carriers are disclosed for storing, carrying and shipping reels of motion picture film, videotape, magnetic tape and the like. The reel carriers are molded from compositions comprising from about 75% to 85% by weight of high density polyethylene and from about 15% to 25% by weight of a thermoplastic rubber, such as a styrene-butadiene-styrene block copolymer, by weight of the overall composition. The reel carriers exhibit improved frictional affinity for surfaces and are well suited for shipping, handling and mailing with modern automated equipment.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 1982Date of Patent: October 16, 1984Assignee: Plastic Reel Corporation Of AmericaInventor: Robert A. Basili
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Patent number: 4461091Abstract: A plumb bob is disclosed that consists of a relatively low-density plastic frustoconical outer shell formed about a relatively high density metallic core. The plumb bob includes a conical support collar at its smaller end, the collar defining an axial bore for receiving either a threaded conventional plumb bob point or a conventional concrete nail. At its other end, the plumb bob defines a smooth curved surface forming a knobbed extension leading to an axial bore for fixing the supporting string. This smooth curve of the knobbed extension prevents undue wear to the supporting string when the plumb bob is in use. The construction of the plumb bob is such that the outer shell and the knobbed extension may be made of impact resistant polycarbonate plastic having a high visibility color.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 1982Date of Patent: July 24, 1984Assignee: Gammon Reel, Inc.Inventor: Norman P. Gammon
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Patent number: 4457195Abstract: The invention disclosed relates to cutters for automatically cutting strips of material such as wire rope, electrical cable, or any other desired cylindrical, linear material. The apparatus proposed is best suited for cutting wire rope having a diameter of from 1/4 inch to about 1 inch. The cutting apparatus includes a controlled turntable upon which a roll of wire rope is mounted, the wire rope is directed through the tubular guide into two oppositely disposed rollers which are adjusted to size for feeding the wire to a cutter. Adjacent the cutter a V-groove platform is provided in which the wire rope lays during cutting. The V-groove is formed by adjacent doorsections that pivot to permit the cut piece to fall through the opened doors to a container below the table. The apparatus is provided with a suitable electrical circuit for operating the cutter motor, the grip roller, the turntable and controls for movement of the cutter and opening the V-groove doors.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 1982Date of Patent: July 3, 1984Assignee: Reel-O-Matic Systems, Inc.Inventor: Dannie L. Brooks
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Patent number: 4428481Abstract: A universal storage container for video cassettes is provided. The container includes substantially rectangular top and bottom walls which are hingedly connected to opposed edges of a rectangular rear wall. Front and opposed side walls extend from the top wall so as to define a substantially U-shaped enclosure. Rotation of the top wall about the rear wall and rotation of the rear wall about the bottom wall forms a hollow enclosure for the cassette. A pair of mounting posts are disposed on the bottom wall and are positioned such that they may be accepted into the central mounting holes of the Beta cassette when the reels of the Beta cassette are biased away from one another. Similarly, the mounting posts may be accepted into the central mounting holes of the VHS cassette when the reels of the VHS cassette are biased toward one another.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 1983Date of Patent: January 31, 1984Assignee: Plastic Reel Corporation of AmericaInventor: Robert A. Basili
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Patent number: 4371147Abstract: A truck mounted hydraulic cable reel apparatus for heavy power cable includes bed frame members supporting a circular turntable. A motor rotates the turntable 45.degree. to either side of a longitudinal center line. Two vertical stanchions are mounted on the turntable. One stanchion supports a tail stock assembly, and a second supports a reel drive assembly. The drive assembly includes a reel drive shaft connected at one end to a hydraulic motor and having a reel drive face plate on the other end. The face plate has lugs which engage lugs on an end of the cable reel spool shaft. The hydraulic motor reversely rotates the cable spool to wind in or pay out power cable. Vertical guide rollers are disposed at either end of the horizontal cable roller. Telescoping outrigger booms are adjustably positioned on either side of the bed frame. Multiple guide rollers on the ends of the booms open and lock closed to capture the power cable and to act as outriggers when laying or retrieving cable.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 1980Date of Patent: February 1, 1983Assignee: Hy-Reel Machinery, Inc.Inventor: Lance D. Ridgway
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Patent number: 4349977Abstract: An automatic fishing apparatus is disclosed which comprises a reel means mounted on a free clutch plate of a clutch assembly. A second clutch plate of the clutch assembly is provided on a driven shaft which also passes through the first plate. Two members are provided with bevelled surfaces one of the members having a rod which is moved when a fish takes a line coupled with the rod. Movement of the rod causes rotational movement of one of the members and also lateral movement of one of the members, which lateral movement is transmitted to the free clutch plate to force the free clutch plate against the driven clutch plate so that drive is transmitted to the free clutch plate and the reel means to reel in the line. Once the fish is reeled in the fish contacts the rod which causes the rod to move to return the said one of the members to its original position to separate the clutch plates to thereby stop the rotation of the reel means.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 1980Date of Patent: September 21, 1982Assignee: King Reel Proprietary LimitedInventors: Marcus T. Brodribb, Antony G. Brodribb
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Patent number: 4291801Abstract: A container for storing and transporting video cassettes of different sizes includes an array of flexible retaining posts affixed to one of the inner surfaces of the container and disposed in spaced relationship so to engage a single access opening in a video cassette in an interference fit manner, thus holding the cassette securely inside the container.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 1980Date of Patent: September 29, 1981Assignee: Plastic Reel Corporation of AmericaInventors: Robert A. Basili, William B. Wilson
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Patent number: 4290563Abstract: Method and apparatus for dispensing flexible materials from multiple coils which are stacked in coaxial alignment upon a rotatable turntable so that the open inner eye of each coil is vertically oriented. For dispensing, the top most coil is clamped between a snubber roll on the outer periphery, and an expandable core which is positioned within the inner eye and activated to provide gripping engagement therewith. Since the expandable core is flexible, it conforms to the shape of the inner eye, thus readily adapting the invention for use with coils which are noncircular or irregularly formed. In a preferred form, the expandable core and snubber roll are coactively connected components of the floating arm assembly which is completely separable from both the turntable and the pay-out assembly. As thus constructed, the floating arm assembly drifts horizontally to follow the irregular motion resulting from rotation of off-centered coils.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 1980Date of Patent: September 22, 1981Assignee: Reel-O-Matic Systems, IncorporatedInventors: Dannie L. Brooks, Ronald S. Fields
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Patent number: 4249705Abstract: Method and apparatus for dispensing unconfined flat coiled strips, mults of which have been stacked in coaxial alignment. The mults form an enlarged cluster coil and in some cases the mults are severably attached to one another. Strip dispensing is effected successively from one coil at a time by means of a turntable upon which the coiled mults are set and associated accessory gear, including supportive coactively mounted coiled snubber and clamping coils, gate and dancer rolls with associated speed control and a pay-out basket assembly, adapted to rotate the dispensed strip to a desired plane. The invention is characterized by eye to the sky dispensing of strips from coils which, aside from the stacking, are otherwise unconfined. In a refined form wherein mutliple mults are attached to one another, the strip is peeled from a given mult by a peeling-blade which is associated with the snubber roller.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 1979Date of Patent: February 10, 1981Assignee: Reel-O-Matic Systems, IncorporatedInventors: Dannie L. Brooks, Ronald S. Fields
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Patent number: D258022Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 1977Date of Patent: January 27, 1981Assignee: Plastic Reel Corporation of AmericaInventor: Peter B. McDermott
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Patent number: D259503Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 1979Date of Patent: June 9, 1981Assignee: Electric Fishing Reel Systems, Inc.Inventor: Peck T. Huffman
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Patent number: D264398Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 1980Date of Patent: May 18, 1982Assignee: Plastic Reel Corporation of AmericaInventors: Robert A. Basili, Gerald Weinstein, William B. Wilson
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Patent number: D265524Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 1980Date of Patent: July 27, 1982Assignee: Plastic Reel Corp. of AmericaInventors: Robert A. Basili, William B. Wilson
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Patent number: D265525Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 1980Date of Patent: July 27, 1982Assignee: Plastic Reel Corporation of AmericaInventors: Robert A. Basili, Gerald Weinstein
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Patent number: D269991Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 1981Date of Patent: August 2, 1983Assignee: Electric Fishing Reel Systems, Inc.Inventor: Carl T. Huffman
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Patent number: D295244Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 1985Date of Patent: April 19, 1988Assignee: Reel Furniture IncorporatedInventor: Jerome Bauman