Abstract: A continuous loop tape cassette for use with an external tape player/recorder apparatus, having a cassette base, a cover and a separate tape guide positioned therebetween. The separate tape guide includes an elongated bridge molded of a low friction plastic and having substantially planar top and bottom surfaces, left and right ends with curved, relatively flat, front surfaces which are slightly slanted relative to the substantially planar top and bottom bridge surfaces, and a flange formed integrally of the front top surface of each end. In addition, locating holes are formed at each left and right end to receive corresponding projections formed on the cassette base and to orient the bridge relative to the tape cassette. Finally, there is provided between the left and right ends a leaf spring having a relatively soft, tape contacting member thereon for exerting a uniform pressure on the running tape as it crosses the magnetic head of the external tape player/recorder apparatus.

Abstract: A continuous winch with two, drums at least one of which is driven and is provided with a multiple groove configuration with one discharge groove for the non-loaded cable. The non-loaded, running-off, or discharging cable in the discharge groove is capable of being stressed or tensioned transverse to the discharge direction. The discharge groove is limited by a tensioning disc which is spring-loaded in the tensioning direction. The tensioning disc is capable of being lifted from the cable counter to spring-loading by a hydraulically engaged stroke piston. The cable exit groove, which is located opposite the discharge groove in the axial direction of the drums, is limited by a clamping disc, which is capable of being tensioned by a hydraulic pressure piston against the cable. The stroke piston of the tensioning disc, and the pressure piston of the clamping disc, are coupled by a hydraulic control and are capable of being engaged by pressure in opposite directions with respect to the cable.

Abstract: A removable spool for a fishing rod reel is provided comprising a front face having a slightly proeminent and smoothly rounded convex shape forming a smooth surface free of roughnesses on which the line cannot catch. This front face is formed by a resilient membrane integral with a push button for disengaging the spool from its support shaft.

Abstract: A fishing reel includes a spool having a pair of flanges and a drag disc which are disposed opposite to each other, with a contact plate interposed between the spool flange and the drag disc. One of the spool and drag disc is moved axially with respect to the other to transmit a driving force to the spool. The contact plate is brought into contact at a radially intermediate portion thereof with the flange or the drag disc. At the radially inward and outward portions on both sides of the contact portion of the contact plate are provided gaps into which the contact plate can be axially shifted with respect to the spool flange or the drag disc.

Abstract: A method and a device for winding wire spools for electric machines allow rapid change of the delivery spools (28, 28a). The wire lead of a new delivery spool is affixed in a holder (48, 48a) ready for the connection. The remainder of wire length of the preceding delivery spool is measured and winding nozzle (14) of the winding device is stopped at the time point when the wire length required for completion of a spool is found between the winding nozzle and the attachment point (48, 56). Then wire (20) is cut off at the attachment point, and the wire end to the rear is connected by means of a wire connection unit (56) with the ready wire lead of the next delivery spool.

Abstract: A fishing reel having a spool and a magnet brake for diminishing an overrun of the spool is provided with an adjuster for the brake, the adjuster being provided with an operating member which is operable by an angler's hand gripping a fishing rod on which the reel is mounted, so that the braking action of the brake is adjustable during the casting.

Abstract: A dual anti-reverse and self-centering mechanism is disclosed for use in an open face style spinning reel. The mechanism provides for multiple stop positions for the reel rotor in a counterclockwise direction. The mechanism also provides a centering position for the rotor with the bail located in the most advantageous position for pivoting to the casting position. Both functions can be enabled by actuating an actuator for the bail centering mechanism.

Abstract: A fishing reel is provided which includes a reel body with a pair of side frames, a spool mounted on a spool shaft disposed between the side frames, and a drive mechanism. The drive mechanism includes a drive shaft rotatably mounted relative to the side frames, a handle mounted on one end of the drive shaft, a pinion supported on the spool shaft to rotate and slide axially relative thereto, and a main gear rotatably mounted relative to the drive shaft and engageable with the pinion. The reel also includes a drag mechanism which includes a first transmission mechanism responsive to a driving force from the drive shaft to transmit an adjustable transmission force to the main gear. The reel also includes a second transmission mechanism mounted on the drive shaft and selectively engageable with the main gear to transmit the driving force from the drive shaft directly to the main gear independently of the first transmission means.

Abstract: A drag control for a spinning reel includes a disc that rotates with the main shaft. A primary drag plunger is moved against one side of the disc to establish the preset drag. The secondary drag plunger directly opposing the primary plunger is mounted on a cam follower, and a hand-operated cam moves the follower selectively toward or away from the disc. The cam is tapered from side to side so that a different range of movement will be imparted to the cam follower, depending upon the circumference of that portion of the cam engaged by the cam follower.

Abstract: The tool of the invention includes a wire packing element which is set in abutment with the side of carding wire being wound onto a carding drum end forces the other side of the wire into abutting fit with the previously wound wrap of wire. While so doing, the tool subjects the portion of wire just received by the drum's surface to numerous impacts while still forcing the aforesaid abutments. It is believed that these impacts alternating with reliefs from the added force causes the wire to shift minutely to attain the stablest configuration which would then not shift during use of the clothed carding cylinder but retain the desired patterning of points through long termed use.

Abstract: A clutch releasing and braking mechanism for a below-the-rod double-bearing type fishing reel having a simplified and compact construction. An operating lever of the reel is pivotally mounted on a frame member of the reel, and a cam portion, rotatable with the operating lever, is provided at the pivot point of the operating lever. The cam portion engages with and operates a braking mechanism. A clutch operating lever, which may be formed as a separate lever and connected to the operating lever via a rotary shaft or as a rearward extension of the operating lever, has a clutch-operating pin at its outward end. The clutch-operating pin engages a second clutch lever, the latter having a pin which directly operates the clutch mechanism.

Abstract: The invention is incorporated into a reel of the type having a reel housing with a deck plate, a line carrying spool and spinner head assembly mounted forwardly of the deck plate. According to the invention, a feathering element is mounted forwardly of an adjustably relative to the deck plate. Biasing structure urges the feathering element away from the spinner head assembly. An adjustable actuating button urges the feathering element against the bias force toward the spinner head assembly so that the line is trapped between the feathering element and spinner head assembly. The feathering structure is located primarily rearwardly of the spinner head assembly so that the structure is independent of the normal reel structure, yet compact.

Abstract: A fishing reel includes a spool rotatably supported between a pair of side frames, and a guide member mounted across the side frames. The guide member includes an elongate bore which extends axially relative to the spool and both lengthwise ends of which are positioned inwardly of opposite inner surfaces of the side frames. The periphery of the elongate bore includes curved drawn-line guide surfaces for guiding the fishing line as it is wound onto or drawn out of the spool.

Abstract: There is disclosed a toroidal winding apparatus for winding an elongated conductor such as, for example, wire strip or the like, into a coil around an enclosed trunk of a magnetic core having a central opening defined by the trunk which is comprised of a magazine for storing the conductor by winding the same around the outer periphery thereof, said magazine has an aperture provided for pulling out the stored conductor inwards in a radial direction thereof, a magazine stand for supporting the magazine rotatable around the axis thereof which has a space for setting the blank magnetic core therein to allow the magazine to rotate passing through the opening of the core, means for exerting a braking force onto the conductor passing through said aperture, a tension slider being guided movably along the periphery of the magazine, a guide means for guiding the conductor having been pulled out from the aperture, and means for biasing the tension slider in a direction along which distance between the aperture and the t

Abstract: A feathering and braking member is provided on the spinner head assembly associated with a spin cast reel and follows fore and aft movement of the spinner head assembly during normal operation of the reel. The feathering and braking member has a ring body and a forwardly facing, deformable ring edge which ring edge, upon encountering the inside surface of the reel cover, causes light line feathering. The ring edge is deformable so that upon the application of further forward pressure upon the spinner head assembly, the ring deforms to provide a greater contact area between the ring and the inside surface of the front cover so that feathering is increased.

Abstract: To improve the twisting of wire ends on a coil form having contact pins axially located with respect to a winding shaft, a swivel shaft is provided on each coil holder of a coiler tool. One end of the swivel shaft is in the form of a driving pin and the other in the shape of a fork. The fork shaped end of the swivel shaft is capable of engaging a driving pin located on a rotating drive shaft. The coil holder is in the form of a strap and tiltable. The wire ends are cut by a wire cutting device that is displaceable vertically with respect to a wire guide. The contact pins with the wire ends twisted on them in a parallel manner may serve simultaneously as plug-in pins for printed circuits.

Abstract: A device for tensioning core tubes, especially core tubes for webs of paper or similar materials, consists of several tensioning segments in the shape of arcs of a hollow cylinder. The segments can be displaced radially inside a cage and are distributed around an arbor. Supports are positioned between the arbor and the tensioning segments in circumferential grooves on the surface of the arbor. The cross section of the arbor is an equilateral polygon in the vicinity of the grooves. The side of each support that faces a tensioning segment is spherical and is inserted into a corresponding hemispherical depression in the inner surface of the tensioning segment. The side of each support that faces the arbor has a contact surface that matches the cross-section of the floor of the groove.

Abstract: A fishing reel is provided which includes a reel body with a pair of side frames, a spool mounted on a spool shaft disposed between the side frames, a driving shaft rotatably mounted relative to the side frames, a transmission mechanism including a main gear rotatably mounted relative to the driving shaft, a drag mechanism for transmitting an adjustable transmission force to the main gear, and an anti-reverse rotation mechanism including (i) a stopper gear rotatably supported relative to the driving shaft and (ii) a stopper pawl engageable with the stopper gear to prevent reverse rotation of the stopper gear and the spool shaft. A rotary member is mounted on the driving shaft to rotate integrally therewith. The rotary member is disposed in opposed relationship to the stopper gear on the drive shaft.

Abstract: This spinning type fishing reel includes a spool for carrying a coil of fishing line, a rotor which can be rotated in a forwards rotational direction for winding fishing line onto the spool, and a means for rotationally coupling the rotor to the spool, when the rotor is rotating in the reverse rotational direction to the forward rotational direction, so as in this case also to rotate the spool in the reverse rotational direction. Thereby, when the rotor and the spool are thus rotated in the reverse rotational direction, twisting which may have taken place in the fishing line may be cancelled by untwisting the fishing line again. The coupling means may be actuatable according to the desire of the fisherman, or alternatively may be always in operation. A braking means may be provided for braking this reverse rotation.

Abstract: A coil winding apparatus is disclosed which is capable of readily adjusting the traversing of an oscillating arm and wire delivery means to carry out the coil winding with good precision. The coil winding apparatus includes a traverse mechanism for traversing the oscillating arm and wire delivery means in the direction of axis of a coil wound article at a predetermined cycle. Also, the apparatus also includes a detector for electrically detecting motion of a main shaft to actuate the traverse mechanism according to the detected motion of the main shaft.