Abstract: Method and apparatus for longitudinally reinforcing continuously generated, resin-impregnated fiber pipe includes deposition longitudinal reinforcing fiber elements directly onto the surface of the pipe into the nip formed between the surface of the pipe being generated and fiber elements being wound circumferentially onto the pipe. Rollers contacting the pipe at the nip guide the longitudinal deposition of fiber elements supplied from a swinging supply tube.

Abstract: A click brake for a fly reel includes an adjustment mechanism whereby line may be released either soundlessly or with an accompanying clicking noise. In the soundless condition no braking force is applied, but in the clicking condition, the braking force may be steplessly increased by increasing the pressure on a pawl engaged with the click gear. The pressure on the pawl is applied via a spring which is adjustably tensioned by a cam and control lever arrangement.

Abstract: A wire feed winding needle mounting support and a stack mounting support permit movement of the winding needle and a stack in at least three coordinate axis directions relative to each other. The supports may be formed on separate modules for variable angular orientation relative to each other. A number of motors control relative movement of the winding needle and stack along the three directions for winding selected teeth in the desired distribution. The invention provides as a basic component pliant bearing surface clamp members on either side of the row of teeth of a stack to be wound. A clamp mounting yoke and further motor means alternately move the pliant bearing surfaces toward and away from the row of teeth on either side between a clamp position and an open position.

Abstract: In the manufacture of electrical coils (10), particularly large transformer coils, an insulated wire (11) is wound on a rotatable winding arbor (12) so as to form a succession of turns of the insulated wire. Particularly when large gauge enamelled copper wire is wound, the insulation (14) has a tendency to crack or chip during the winding process, causing shorted turns and producing a defective coil. This disclosure relates to systems for testing such a coil to detect a short as it is wound so as to permit interruption of the winding process and repair of the insulation fault on the spot. The test equipment includes a pair of test windings (41, 42) positioned at opposite ends of the winding arbor (12) and magnetically coupled by flux paths (50, 51) to each other and to the coil being wound so that an A.C. input signal (V.sub.1) applied to the first winding (41) induces an A.C. output signal (V.sub.

Abstract: In a rotating spool casting reel a permanent magnet carried on the housing and a fan blade rotor with metallic disc attracted by the magnet and fan blades rotatable with the shaft but slidable thereon. The fan blades tend to pull the rotor away from the magnet and spring means biases it toward the magnet whereby magnetic attraction is maximum at low speeds and minimum at high speeds.

Abstract: An apparatus for making a rotationally symmetrical body formed of crisscross-wound layers includes a winding mandrel, a carriage reciprocating along the mandrel and a thread laying assembly mounted on the carriage. The assembly has a pivotal device, and four thread laying rollers mounted for rotation on the pivotal device. The shafts of the rollers extend parallel to one another and are situated at points of an imaginary equilateral trapezoid having a plane perpendicular to the roller shafts. Each roller has a plurality of circumferential grooves for simultaneously guiding and depositing on the mandrel a plurality of parallel-running threads. Two rollers are situated on one side of the pivot axis of the pivotal device and form a first roller pair and two rollers are situated on an opposite side of the pivot axis and form a second roller pair.

Abstract: A power winch mechanism having a rotatable cable drum in which is rotatably mounted a D.C. electric drive motor. One end of the cable drum, and one end of the electric drive motor is operatively supported by a fixed support member on a base plate. The other ends of the cable drum and the electric drive motor are rotatably supported by a fixed gear housing, axially spaced apart from the first mentioned fixed support member. The electric drive motor is provided with an elongated output shaft that extends into the fixed gear housing, and it carries a fixedly mounted sun gear that is in mesh with, and drives a pair of planetary gears. The planetary gears are in mesh simultaneously with a fixed ring gear mounted in the fixed gear housing and a rotatable ring gear that is fixed on the cable drum. The rotatable ring gear on the cable drum is provided with two more teeth than the fixed ring gear on the fixed gear housing.

Abstract: Elongate articles of non-circular cross section such as those of an airfoil cross section are constructed by winding filamentary material in layers about a form between a pair of spaced turnarounds generally conforming in shape to the cross sectional shape of the form. Adjacent layers are continuously wound by winding the filamentary material across the edges and outer face of each turnaround while reversing the direction of relative longitudinal displacement between the filamentary material and the form. The shape correspondence between the turnarounds and the form effect a minimization of expanse between the turnaround edge and form surface, thereby minimizing bridging of the filamentary material between those two members.

Abstract: A fishing spinning reel in which a bail arm has opposite ends secured to a bail arm lever and a bail arm cam, the bail arm lever and the bail arm cam being rotatably shouldered on a pair of opposing arms of a rotor. The bail arm is rotatable from a line-casting position to a line-rewinding position. A first kick lever is provided for rotating the bail arm from its line-casting position to an intermediate position upon the rotation of a handle of the fishing spinning reel. A second kick lever is provided for rotating the bail arm from its intermediate position to its line-rewinding position upon successive rotation of the handle of the fishing spinning reel.

Abstract: A fly-fishing reel has a rotatable spool provided with a click gear engaged by a pivoted pawl which can apply resistance to rotation of the spool in opposite directions by independently adjustable spring means. A pair of exteriorly exposed adjustment knobs are each provided with an eccentric pin extending into the reel housing to slide a plate which carries a pretensioned spring engaged with one of the opposite radial sides of the pawl. By rotating the knobs, the slides move linearly to vary the contact point of the springs with the pawl and thereby regulate the moment arm of the force resisting rotation of the pawl and thus the click gear and spool to which is engaged. Since the adjustments are independent, the resistances to rotation of the spool may be varied as to degree and to which direction of rotation they apply. The slides mount the springs in a manner to limit the degree to which the springs may follow movements of the pawls.

Abstract: A spinning reel is provided with a rotor having opposed arms projecting over a skirted portion of a normally non-rotated spool. A line guide bail has arm cams at its ends to pivotally support the bail to the rotor. One of the bail arm cams also forms a lever portion. The bail is pivoted through a wide angle, in response to rotation of the rotor, from a line casting position to an intermediate position and finally to a line winding position. In moving from the casting to the intermediate position, the bail arm lever strikes a kick plate carried by a stationary reel support leg. This conditions the bail so that an interior, stationary kick bose is engaged by a kick plate connected by a link to the bail arm cam to swing the plate and connected bail to line winding position.

Abstract: A braking mechanism for retrofitting onto a fishing reel allows the drag on the fishing line to be preset. The mechanism includes a braking wheel, a crank, and a stop. The stop is adjustably mounted on the crank. The fisherman moves the stop to a desired position to control the amount the braking wheel can be turned.

Abstract: Fishing spinning reel having a hollow main body having front and rear ends, a main shaft within the main body having a spool attached to its front end, a handle shaft rotatably mounted on the main body, a handle connected to the outer end of the handle shaft, a gear mechanism within the main body drivingly connecting the handle shaft and the main shaft, a drag knob telescoped over the handle shaft and disposed adjacent to the handle, a rotatable hollow shaft telescoped over the handle shaft and having the drag knob affixed to the outer end thereof, and a drag force generating mechanism connected between the rear end of the main body and the rear end of the main shaft and operated upon the rotation of said drag knob and hollow shaft.

Abstract: The invention relates to a fishing reel. It comprises a fishing line storage spool which is driven rotatively by an oscillating movement lever through a gear which includes a one-way coupling, whereby the lever is allowed to return to its initial position at the end of the power stroke. The spool is rotatively coupled to the gear through a torque limiter which also allows the spool to rotate independently of the operation of the lever.

Abstract: A winch for sheet winding on seacrafts, including a fixed mount, a drum for sheet winding, a rotatable shaft for operationally rotating the drum, a pair of blocking rings operationally connected to the drum and forming between the rings a groove having an axis extending in a predetermined direction and arranged to grasp and drag the sheet into rotation when the sheet is under stress, and a roller for passing thereover the sheet coming from the drum and directed to the groove or vice versa and having an axis which extends in a direction substantially corresponding to the direction of extension of the groove and is slanted to the axis of the groove at a small angle, so that when the sheet passes from the groove to the roller the sheet reaches the roller in a direction almost perpendicular to the axis of the roller.

Abstract: A double bearing type fishing reel which is provided with a reel mounting leg at an upper portion of a reel body, which reel mounting leg has a fishing rod mounting member and an operating lever pivotably connected to its base portion in such a manner that an operating portion of the lever is positioned under a front portion of the fishing rod mounting member, which operating lever is adapted to be drawn upward by the forefinger of the hand gripping the fishing rod mounting member and fishing rod. This reel permits the clutch operation and spool braking operation to be carried out quickly and easily, controlling the spool braking force to an arbitrary level, and reliably preventing backlash of the fishing line.

Abstract: The safety system in a hoist having a motor with a motor shaft, a gear reduction unit, a drum, a safety brake drivingly coupled on an operating element on or close to the drum in which a mechanical out-of-sync detector produces a unidirectional brake-setting output from inputs from the drum and the motor shaft, the unidirectional brake-setting rotational output for setting the brake. In a preferred embodiment, an error correction is made into the detector for obtaining a first unidirectional output during normal operation, and the brake-setting unidirectional rotation is in the opposite direction for setting the brake. One form of detector is a mechanical differential assembly and another form of detector is a set of coaxial shafts that measure differential rotation between the drum and motor input shafts. A unique brake actuator is provided and is easily reset remotely after the brake has been set.

Abstract: A fly reel is provided with a pivotable brake structure and a roller clutch between the brake and the spool. A clicking sound generating mechanism is provided which is operable to generate a sound when the spool is rotated in either the pay-out or winding directions. The mechanism is manually removable and reversible for silent operation or selective clicking in either direction. The roller clutch contains removable and reversible springs for converting the reel braking action between left-handed and right-handed modes of operation.

Abstract: A drag brake for a spinning reel includes a stack of friction disks accommodated in a cup. A member threadedly mounted in the cup adjusts the braking force through a resilient element. The brake adjusting member is stopped in its outward retracting movement by a transverse spring extending across and mounted by the cup. A knob is attached to the end of the brake adjusting member and has an internally corrugated skirt that surrounds the cup. The spring projects beyond the cup to engage the corrugations yieldingly to maintain the setting of the brake.

Abstract: A fishing reel has a spool arranged between first and second opposing side plates, a handle shaft carrying a master gear supported between the first side plate and a gear cover provided outwardly thereof, and a spool shaft carrying a pinion in mesh with the master gear supported between the second side plate and the gear cover through bearings, the first side plate being provided with support means having a support for supporting the spool shaft at an intermediate portion thereof, so that the spool shaft is normally free from the support but is supported in contact therewith when deflection occurs in the spool shaft.