Abstract: The present invention is directed to a winding bay and a method of winding to provide for a high quality wind of a viscoelastic material. A viscoelastic material and a supporting liner are wound onto a roll. After unwinding the liner from a liner let-off roll, the liner is guided under high tension. Before guiding the viscoelastic material onto the liner, the tension in the liner is isolated to reduce the tension in the liner. The viscoelastic material is guided onto the liner, and the viscoelastic material and the supporting liner are wound onto a windup roll.

Abstract: A string control system for conveniently dispensing for use and retracting for storage an elongate flexible member. The string control system includes a reeling device for dispensing an elongate flexible member during use of the flexible member and retracting the flexible member for storage of the flexible member. The device comprises a frame having laterally spaced side portions and longitudinally spaced end portions defining an opening. The end portions extend between the side portions. A spool is provided for winding a length of an elongate flexible member thereon. The spool is positioned in the opening of the frame and is rotatably mounted on the frame. The spool has a pair of flange portions and a central portion mounted between the flange portions. A crank is provided for rotating the spool. Preferably, each of the flange portions of the spool has a hub and at least two guide spokes extending radially outward from the hub.

Abstract: A winder for cord or line attachable to a power drill. The winder has a handle which rotatively supports a shaft having a threaded section. A pair of conical seat members are slidable on the threaded section to engage the core of a reel. A retainer such as a wing secures the seat members and reel in place. The user may hold the handle with one hand while operating the power tool to cause the reel to be rotated in a direction to take up the line. The conical seat members adapt the winder to use with reels of varying core diameter.

Abstract: An apparatus and method is provided for storing and handling holiday light strings such as icicle lights. The device in accordance with the invention includes a vertically disposed rotatable spindle. The icicle light string can be conveniently wound on the spindle by rotating the spindle in the direction of winding. The device allows for ease of storage and handling of such light strings without any substantial tangling of the strings. When it is desired to mount the lights after a period of storage, the light strings can be readily unwound from the rotatable spindle and directly mounted at desired locations.

Abstract: The present invention teaches a cable management system for supporting and routing cables. The cable management system includes one or more cable supports attached to a support structure such as a wall or electronics cabinet. Each cable support includes one or more cable spools detachably mounted to a spool guide. The spool guide includes a channel extending along its length and in-turned flanges that extend partially across the opening of the channel. Each cable spool includes a spool body and a coupler. The coupler has a retractable brace that can be inserted into the channel, rotated and retracted toward the spool body for clamping the in-turned flanges between the brace and the spool body.

Abstract: A multi-roll media supporting and supply system is provided for supporting and supplying a web of media from a roll of media to a media using machine. The multi-roll media supporting and supply system includes a support mechanism having a first side and a second side; a media supply assembly supported rotatably on the support mechanism, including a cylindrical member having a circular periphery, a shaft defining a first axis of rotation, and a plurality of elongate recesses for each supporting a roll of media. The multi-roll media supporting and supply system also includes a staging assembly associated with at least one of the first side and the second side of the support mechanism for assisting loading of a roll of media onto the media supply assembly.

Abstract: Device and process for winding a material web onto a winding core to form a wound reel. The device includes a reeling drum positionable against a winding core or a wound roll to form a winding nip, a secondary transport device to displace the winding core/wound roll along a path of travel, and a pressure device and an air squeezing element. Secondary transport device carries air squeezing element and pressure device, and pressure device is arranged to press air squeezing element against wound reel prior to a reel change. A primary transport device moves a new, still-empty reel spool into an initial winding position, and a lift device is coupled to air squeezing element and pressure device and to secondary transport device. Lift device is arranged to move air squeezing element and pressure device to distance from a rotational axis of wound reel which corresponds to a current layer thickness.

Abstract: A seat belt retractor has a belt reel that is rotatably mounted on a frame and on which a seat belt can be wound and unwound. A motive spring biases the belt reel in the winding direction. An electric motor adjusts the spring force of the motive spring can be adjusted and/or a torque produced for tightening the seat belt. The torque can be transmitted to the belt reel by a clutch. The deformation of a deformable spring element brings the clutch into an engaged state. The spring element is held on one end of the spring by a holding device actuated by inertial force, at least for initiating its deformation.

Abstract: A rewind spring in a cassette for a seat belt retractor is assembled by first placing a mechanism cover on a winding jig. An arbor is fitted to a winding shaft of the jig. One end of a coiled metal bank spring is then fixed to the spring arbor. The band is then wound onto the arbor in the mechanism cover and a spring cover is fitted to the mechanism cover. Finally, a locking clip is attached to the spring cover to lock the arbor against rotation. A spring arbor for use in the cassette has a generally cylindrical shape and an axially extending slot for receiving an end of the spring. A step is provided in the profile of the cylindrical outer surface of the arbor in the region of the slot to compensate for the thickness of the band wound thereon.

Abstract: A storage device for a long vacuum hose such as used for cleaning a pool has a frustoconcial member mounted on a reel rotatably supported on a frame. The frustoconical member frictionally fits and secures the end of the vacuum hose to enable the winding of the hose on the reel.

Abstract: A torsion bar in a seat belt retractor includes a torsion portion to be twisted. The torsion portion has an outer portion, and a center portion inside the outer portion. The outer portion has a hardness lower than that at the center portion to thereby increase energy absorption in twisting the torsion portion. Therefore, even if higher stress is applied to the outer portion of the torsion portion when the torsion bar is twisted, the number of turns until the torsion bar is broken can be increased as compared to the conventional one. Accordingly, the belt withdrawing amount is ensured enough after the twisting of the torsion portion is started, thereby improving the energy absorbing capacity.

Abstract: A light string holder has a central hand grip with upright members spaced from the hand grip to partially define storage areas for light string segments. Lateral extensions on the hand grip have horizontal edges for supporting spaced apart loops of a light string. Removal of the light string loops is upwardly to permit segments of the light string to disentangle from one another. Slots in the holder receive ends of the light string.

Abstract: The present invention proposes an improved structure of a wire winding box, which comprises a housing, a rotary disk, a communication cable, a spiral spring, and a locking button. The housing comprises a top cap and a bottom cap. The rotary disk is pivotally installed in a rotary disk tank in the housing. A shaft bushing is installed or integrally formed on one disk surface of the rotary disk for the penetrating and winding of the communication cable. A ring is installed on another disk surface of the rotary disk to be hooked by the spiral spring received in a receiving tank beside the rotary disk tank to provide uniform rewinding force for the rotary disk with respect to the communication cable. The locking button is worked by a resilient element to let a push part thereof protrude out of the housing. A bump is formed on the locking button and extends to the rotation path of a slanting retaining block preset on the rotary disk to stop the retaining block timely to lock the rotary disk.

Abstract: A band steel plate winding apparatus comprises a winding drum for winding a band steel plate; unit rolls, and curved surface guides adjacent to the unit rolls, provided along a circumferential surface of the winding drum forwardly and backwardly movably between a winding drum surrounding position and a retreat position, the position of the unit roll relative to the winding drum at the time of entry of the band steel plate being downstream at an angle of about 15 degrees or less from the position of contact between the winding drum and the band steel plate; and ejection nozzles provided in a guide surface of each of the curved surface guides for ejecting a gaseous or liquid fluid at a high speed toward the band steel plate before the band steel plate collides with the curved surface guide. The band steel plate winding apparatus permits high speed winding of a band steel plate while effectively preventing buckling of a front end of the band steel plate, and can avoid a great increase in equipment cost.

Abstract: A seat belt retractor has a winding shaft for winding a seat belt. A motive spring biases the winding shaft in the winding direction of the seat belt. A drive unit provides at least partial relaxation of the motive spring when the seat belt is at least partially unwound. A bridging device can also be provided, by means of which the winding shaft can be driven more directly by the drive unit during a process of winding the seat belt.

Abstract: An apparatus for removing a floor covering is provided. The apparatus has a casing, and a drive therefore that is disposed in the casing. A fastening device, for the floor covering, is disposed on the outer surface of the casing. A support structure, for the casing, is disposed at at least one end portion thereof.

Abstract: A strapping machine having an inertial rotating system allowing for strapping materials to be continually fed to the feed wheel of the device is provided. The inertial rotating system allows the strapping machine to continue to feed strapping material such that loops of excess material are not generated upon the cessation of pull force on the strapping material. The inertial rotating system includes a twisted belt allowing the motor shaft to be placed approximately perpendicular to the pulley attached to the reel of strapping material such that the pulley and strap may be housed within the housing of the strapping machine. The use of a twisted belt allows for the use of a motor having a single drive shaft, thus simplifying the motor used in the strapping machine. The inertial rotating system further provides a means to rewind and recover strapping material from the strapping machine.

Abstract: A roll paper pulling load-buffering device enables smooth roll paper transportation and minimizes the space required for its installation in the printer. The load-buffering device has an arm 22a that moves a specified angle around the shaft 24 on which the roll paper turns. A roller 23 extends widthwise to the roll paper from the arm 22a at a point offset from the outside diameter of the roll. Paper pulled off the roll is draped around this roller 23. When a transportation roller is driven to advance paper from the roll by pulling from the end of the roll, tension applied to the paper causes the arm 22a to turn in one direction by way of the intervening roller 23. An urging means 25 such as a spring then urges the roller 23 and arm 22a in the opposite direction, maintaining even tension on both sides of the roller 23 and thereby enabling smooth roll paper transportation.

Abstract: A safety belt winding device is provided having a tensioning mechanism with a cable that can be unwound from a pulley, and also having a force-limiting device for a predetermined belt withdrawal, wherein the connection between the belt winding shaft and the tensioning mechanism is adapted to be eliminated after conclusion of the tensioning movement. A retaining element is disposed on an end of the cable and is releasably fixed in position on the pulley, wherein an ejection arm is mounted on the pulley such that it can be pivoted out radially and that during a tensioning process in a belt winding direction is held in a pivoted-in position by the housing in which the pulley is accommodated. During rotation of the belt winding shaft in the belt withdrawal direction, the ejection arm pivots outwardly and is fixed from further rotation via a configuration of the housing and thereby displaces the retainer element of the cable out of engagement with the housing.

Abstract: A seat belt retractor is provided in which a torsion bar of an energy absorption mechanism and a ratchet wheel of an emergency locking mechanism can be easily combined in a constant angular phase without requiring any special precise working, which always stably operates without causing any problem such as that the emergency locking mechanism is out of synchronization, and in which an energy can be effectively absorbed without accompanying any time delay.