Abstract: A winder has an extra section. The extra section includes a gripper; and a brake, for controlling a wire force without having to change a pitch diameter of the gripper or a sprocket. The wire winder, is controlled by, as a tower travels around a tank, generating a square wave from the wheel drive; feeding said square wave to a counter and counting the square waves; comparing the number of counts with a number selected by an operator for a spacing location; powering a proportional hydraulic valve, and thereby pressurizing fluid into an elevator hydraulic motor; thereby rotating the motor until the spacing counter has counted the pre-selected number; and shutting the hydraulic flow. Epoxy is used to protect seismic cables from liquids.

Abstract: A hydraulic capstan to pull electric or communication wire through conduit or open trenches over long distances from a stationary position. The capstan is powered by a hydraulic motor. An operator can activate the motor from inside the cab of a vehicle to turn the capstan. The rope attached to the wire is wrapped around the capstan. When the rope is pulled tight on the turning capstan, the rope comes on one side and off the other side, pulling the wire load.

Abstract: A fishing reel with side walls includes a spool shaft rotatably supported therebetween and a level wind comprising a line guide having an eyelet therewith through which the fishing line is threaded. The spool shaft supports a spool that holds the fishing line. The level wind comprises a multiple-part transverse shaft rotatably secured between the side walls in front of the spool. The transverse shaft is adapted to be rotated by the driving gear, and is formed with a single continuous helical thread along the length thereof extending approximately 180° along the length of the shaft in a first direction and the approximately 180° along the shaft in the opposite direction. The threaded portion of the shaft is engaged by a pawl carried by the line guide.

Abstract: A locking preset mechanism for a fishing reel is provided by interlocking in the preset knob with a bridge plate. Spring-biased pins engage depressions in the mating face of an axially moveable means in the mechanism. By depressing the knob, the knob can be rotated. When at rest, the knob is locked against rotation.

Abstract: A lifting arrangement for overhead traveling cranes. The lifting arrangement includes two single reeved drums that are reeved together to provide true vertical lift of a load. The lifting arrangement allows for equalization of full up and full down rope fleet angles through utilization of axially staggered dual drums and/or a bottom block with two separate sheave nests. The lifting arrangement may utilize commercially available components to reduce the overall cost of the crane when compared with other powerhouse crane designs.

Abstract: A wheel securing device is utilized with a wheel cradle of a automobile dolly for securing an automobile wheel towing an automobile. The wheel securing device includes a frame, a shaft mounted to rotate in the frame. The shaft extends beyond the frame and the shaft has a slot through it within the frame. A ratchet gear is mounted on the shaft outside and adjacent to the frame. A latch is mounted to rotate on the frame to engage the ratchet gear to permit rotation of the ratchet gear and the shaft in only one direction. A web assembly is utilized for mounting on the automobile wheel. The web assembly is connected to the shaft at the slot. A drive pulley is mounted on the shaft and the drive pulley has a nut extending from it on the side of the drive pulley opposite from the side facing the ratchet gear for tightening the web assembly on the automobile wheel.

Abstract: A magnetic tape cartridge includes a cartridge case, which is formed by fastening upper and lower cases integrally and has a tape leader opening in side walls of the upper and lower cases. Within the cartridge case, a single reel with magnetic tape wound thereon is rotatably housed. A slender leader pin firmly attached to the leading end of the magnetic tape is detachably held near the tape leader opening and between the upper and lower cases. In the magnetic tape cartridge, a small-diameter pin for fastening the upper and lower cases is press-fitted near a holding portion of the cartridge case which holds the leader pin.

Abstract: A swing arm type chain support with a hook arrangement integral with a swing arm which allows a mooring chain to ratchet over the hook while tensioning, then automatically engage the hook when tension is reduced.

Abstract: An active feedback levelwind apparatus and method for winding cable on a drum has a rotary encoder providing signals representative of drum rotation and a shuttle adjacent the drum receives, bidirectionally moves and wraps the cable on the drum. An outboard sensor assembly on the shuttle has an angular sensor providing signals representative of the angle of extension of an outboard extending portion of the cable. An inboard sensor assembly on the shuttle has an inboard sensor providing signals representative of the angle of extension of an inboard extending portion of the cable. A stepper motor coupled to a computer system bidirectionally displaces the shuttle and cable in response to the rotation signals, outboard angular signals, inboard angular signals and limit signals to smoothly wind the cable. Error position feedback signals from the computer system create corrective displacements for the shuttle to smoothly wind cables of varying widths.

Abstract: A wire-winding box structure with an increased use area has a wire-winding box body, a wire-winding disk, a communication wire and a power spring. One end of the communication wire is wound around a wire-winding pivot of the wire-winding disk to form an inner ring portion. The other end of the communication wire is wound in a receiving groove to form an outer ring portion. The communication wire, can thus be disposed around the wire-winding pivot and in the receiving groove at two faces of a first disk body of the wire-winding disk, respectively. The power spring is received in a spring receiving groove of the wire-winding disk. One fastening end of the power spring is fastened at the wire-winding disk, and the other fastening end thereof is fastened at the wire-winding box body.

Abstract: A fishing spinning reel includes a rotating member disposed rotatably in a reel frame about a first axis, and a coupling member disposed movably in the reel frame and connected to a reciprocating spool spindle. A cam member has a first cam end loosely engaging a slot in the rotating member to be movable along a non-circular path defined by a non-circular guideway, and a second cam end engaging a cam follower of the coupling member. When the first cam end is moved by rotating movement of the rotating member through a handle, the coupling member and the spindle reciprocate along a second axis perpendicular to the first axis.

Abstract: An apparatus is described for guiding a metal band (1) on a gas cushion with blowing boxes (4) which are disposed one after the other in the longitudinal direction (3) of the band and whose nozzle fields (5) which extend transversally to the longitudinal direction (3) of the band comprise hole-type nozzles (6) distributed over the field surface area and slotted nozzles (8) along the edges (7) which extend transversally to longitudinal direction (3) of the band. In order to provide advantageous constructional conditions it is proposed that the slotted nozzles (8) along the edges (7) consist of several nozzle slots (9) which are arranged one after the other parallel to the edge and are inclined inwardly with respect to the edge (7) starting from the respective center (10) of the edge.

Abstract: A dual speed fishing reel having a housing with a spool on a spool shaft, a driven gear on the spool shaft and having a low speed pinion and a high speed pinion, a drive shaft, a low speed drive gear for engaging the low speed pinion and a high speed drive gear for engaging the high speed pinion, with the drive gears carried on the drive shaft, with one of the drive gears fixed to the drive shaft for rotation by the drive shaft and with the other of the drive gears riding on the drive shaft independent of rotation of the drive shaft, with the high speed drive gear engageable with the low speed drive gear, and a gear shift for moving the low speed drive gear into and out of engagement with the high speed drive gear.

Abstract: A braking device includes a brake wheel, a pair of rotation shafts, a pair of brake arms which is rotatably supported through the rotation shafts, a pair of brake pads arranged at one end of the brake arms and contacting and separating from the brake wheel, and a brake part connected to another end of the brake arms for providing and releasing a braking force of the brake pads. When the centers of the rotation shafts are fulcrums, the centers of contact of the brake pads with the brake wheel are points of action, and the connections between the brake arms and the brake part are power points, the fulcrums, the points of action, and the power points are located in a semicircular area of the brake wheel.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a sleeve sized to receive a bar, the sleeve having a nub. The apparatus includes a movable assembly including a spindle, a drive axle to receive the chuck of a drill, and a bracket, the bracket sized to fit over either of the bar and the nub. A power relay of the apparatus receives a power cord of the drill and applies power from an electrical source to the power cord of the drill upon the operation of a power relay switch. A retainer, separate from the movable assembly, retains a drill power switch in an ON position.

Abstract: An outer-side holding member (5) of a braking device (A) is fitted to the inner side of a large-diameter recessed portion (2g) in a rear portion of the inner side of a fishing-line winding barrel portion (2h) of a spool (2) in such a manner as to be prevented from rotating, and is prevented from coming off. An adjusting member 8 is provided at a distal end portion of the spool shaft for adjusting braking force of the braking device by relatively displacing an outer-side holding member (5) and the inner-side holding member (7) of the braking device in an axial direction.

Abstract: Strip material is fed to a reduction rolling mill by a steering device in the form of a pinch roll stand comprising pinch rolls to which strip gripping forces are applied by hydraulic cylinder units located at the ends of the pinch rolls. A reduction mill is similarly provided with a pair of hydraulic cylinder units which are independently operable to vary the pressure applied by the reduction rolls across the strip. Sensors sense the position of the strip at a first location in advance of the pinch rolls and a second location in advance of the rolling mill. This output of sensors is fed to a controller which controls operation of both sets of hydraulic cylinder units to steer the strip.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for winding wire coils on cores of dynamo-electric machine components such as stators and alternators are provided. The apparatus may be used to wind wire coils on the poles of a stator. The apparatus includes a movable wire dispenser and a set of wire pullers. The wire pullers are used to form a loop in an initial stretch of wire dispensed by the wire-dispenser alongside a stator pole. The loop is first formed adjacent to the pole and then moved above the pole out of the paths of subsequent wire stretches dispensed to form the wire coils. The loop may be pulled taut in either direction upon completion of the winding operation to connect the wire to a terminal.

Abstract: The combination of a bobbin assembly and a support for the bobbin assembly. The bobbin assembly has a core around which a supply of thread can be wrapped. The core has a rotational axis. The bobbin assembly further has a first flange with first and second oppositely facing surfaces. The first surface bounds a storage space for thread wrapped around the core. The first flange has at least one projection from the second surface. The support has a third surface facing the second surface and bearing against the at least one projection for limiting movement of the spool in a direction substantially parallel to the rotational axis with the bobbin assembly operatively connected to the support.

Abstract: In an elevator drive sheave, positioning of divided segments in a circumferential direction relative to a sheave body and transmission of torque between the sheave body and the divided segments are performed by a torque transmission mechanism having a plurality of keys interposed between the sheave body and the divided segments. A projecting portion projecting radially inward is disposed on an axial end portion of the divided segments, a contact surface being disposed on the projecting portions. Positioning of the divided segments in an axial direction relative to the sheave body is performed by the contact surface being placed in contact with an axial end surface of the sheave body.