Abstract: A coupling disc for a belt retractor of a vehicle safety belt comprises a coupling catch which is pivotally mounted on the coupling disc so as to be movable between a position of rest and a coupling position. The coupling catch and the coupling disc are formed in one piece from plastic.

Abstract: A cable guiding fin for managing cable in a cable management system. The fin includes a base and an upstanding wall with a convex surface. The upstanding wall may be tilted at an angle relative to the base and may define a plurality of tie-down apertures. The base may include an adhesive or fastener holes to secure the base to a surface of the cable management system.

Abstract: A seatbelt pretensioner (10, 210, 310) with a soft-start piston actuator (50) is provided. The pretensioner (10, 210, 310) cooperates with a webbing reel shaft (112, 212, 312) of a seatbelt retractor webbing reel (not shown). The pretensioner (10, 210, 310) includes a housing (16, 216, 316) with at least one passage, and preferably two volumetrically intersecting perpendicular passages (18, 218, 318; 20, 220, 320). A clutch assembly (30, 230, 330) is fixed within the first passage (18, 218, 318), and a webbing reel shaft (12, 212, 312) extends axially through the clutch assembly (30, 230, 330). A soft-start piston actuator (50) with at least a first pressure surface (54) and a second pressure surface (56) is positioned in the second passage (20, 220, 320), and is actuatable with a gas generant composition (60, 260) that produces pressurized gas upon signaling from a remote sensor (not shown).

Abstract: Motion picture film reel for holding, transporting and storing film comprising a pair of disc-shaped side retaining members and a central hub around which the film is wound. Each disc-shaped side retaining member is formed with a central hub engaging section with an annular projecting collar that defines a central primary opening for receiving a shaft and at least a single secondary opening that defines an appendage formed integrally therewith. A bendable prong, which extends from the central hub of each disc-shaped side retaining member normal to the plane thereof, includes a distal end and defines a slotted opening for engaging the appendage. A hub defines a central aperture for receiving the annular projection collar, a shaft and a pair of openings for receiving the bendable prongs, which are caused to pass through their respective openings and extend outwardly as the distal end of each prong engages an appendage.

Abstract: A payout tube for insertion in a radial hole of a wound coil of filamentary material and the radial hole extending from the inner to the outer wind of the wound coil, the payout tube including an entrance and an exit opening in coaxial and spaced relationship with one another; the size of the entrance opening is determined by the following: Yc=3.5 sin x/Dm where Dm is a diameter of the mandrel on which the coil of filamentary material is wound, x is the length along the circumference of the wind and Yc is the substantially sinusoidal FIG. 8 coil pattern; Yc′=3.5Dm Cos x/Dm; at x=0; Yc′=3.51/Dm; and the slope H of the coil pattern=Tan−1 [3.5/Dm]=23.

Abstract: A winding head of a cheese-producing textile machine, having a device for the accurate determination of the length of yarn traveling through a measuring head (7), and having an evaluating device for accumulating the yarn lengths that have passed. The winding head has a device for determining yarn length portions which are removed in the course of a yarn connecting process. The evaluation device is adapted to subtract the removed yarn lengths from the total length of the yarn (2) which has passed through the measuring head.

Abstract: A device for aiding rewinding a fishing reel by an individual includes a suction cup base having a convex bottom and top portion having a central hub, a screw threadably connected to the hub at a first end and having a second end extending therefrom, and an elongated pole member threadably connected to the second end of the screw which extends outwardly from the hub and is of a diameter to be received through the hub of a spool of line. A spool retainer is provided which is frictionally slidably connected to the pole member to retain a spool of line between the hub and retainer.

Abstract: A mobile wire dispensing apparatus for carrying and moving spools of wire to desired locations. The mobile wire dispensing apparatus includes a frame including tubullar members and also including connectors interconnecting said tubular members; and also includes wheels upon which the frame is mounted; and further includes handle members being connected to the frame; and also includes a support stand assembly being connected to the frame; and further includes wire-carrying spools being removably mounted to said frame.

Abstract: Paper web sections which may have been produced by longitudinally cutting a wide paper web, and which are being fed in a production direction, are laterally shifted with respect to that production direction. The web sections are fed within a device for deflecting the paper webs transversely from the left and from the right, with respect to the machine production direction. Two upper 45° deflection devices are supported by lateral side frames and can be displaced horizontally transversely to the machine production direction. Each of these two upper deflection devices has a lower surface that lies in a horizontal plane and the two horizontal planes have different heights.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for turning-up a web is disclosed that results in greater efficiency. The method has been found to work especially well when the web is a bulky tissue web, but is also suitable for other web materials. The apparatus includes a reel spool having a cylindrical surface, the cylindrical surface includes at least one axial line of adhesive and a plurality of apertures operatively connected to a source of vacuum.

Abstract: A light-shielded photosensitive material roll is provided in which a length of a light-shielding flanged cylinder is a length of an extent which enables easy insertion, industrially, of the flanged cylinder into a winding core of the photosensitive material roll, and also, the photosensitive material roll can be stably supported at any of various types of driving shafts. In the light-shielded photosensitive material roll, a spacer sheet, which has substantially a same thickness as a thickness of the light-shielding flanged cylinder, is bonded and fixed to an inner side wall surface of the winding core corresponding to a position at which a distal end portion of a cylindrical portion of the flanged cylinder is extended.

Abstract: A system and method for producing a spool having a continuous fabric strip is disclosed which produces an extended length fabric strip made from a plurality of seamed standard lengths of the fabric, the extended length fabric strip being spirally wound upon a hollow core with consecutive windings of the extended length fabric strip being located close adjacent each other, and with consecutive rows of the extended length fabric strip overlaying each other on the hollow core. In the preferred embodiment, the standard length fabric strips are joined together at their respective contiguous ends using a small strip of heat-activated seaming tape.

Abstract: An apparatus (10) for helping to protect an occupant of a vehicle seat (14) comprises a seat belt (20) and a seat belt retractor (30) including a spool (60) supported for rotation about a spool axis (64) in a seat belt withdrawal direction (68) and an opposite seat belt retraction direction (66). An electric motor (110) is energizable to rotate the spool (60) in the seat belt retraction direction (66) and is de-energizable. The electric motor (110) is energizable to rotate the spool (60) in the seat belt retraction direction (66) to apply a predetermined amount of tension to the seat belt (20). An electrically actuatable brake (140) associated with the motor (110) is actuatable to maintain the predetermined amount of tension on the seat belt (20) after the motor applies the predetermined amount of tension to the seat belt.

Abstract: A jig adapted for atmospheric as well as heated and pressurized treatment of web material. The jig incorporates an arrangement of self lubricating and self aligning bearings disposed in supporting relation at the ends of roller shafts. At least one roller within the jig is adapted to be oscillated in an axial direction.

Abstract: A tool for reeling in a tip up apparatus for convenient and easy coiling of fishing line on the reel of a tip up apparatus. The tool for comprising a drive motor housed in a sealed enclosure with self-contained power supply and lighting device. A permanent non-replaceable chuck designed to engage with a tripping rotor as is generally used in tip up and fishing reel devices. The device includes controls for activating the motor and light. The enclosure is designed to comfortably fit the user's pocket or hand and the control device is designed so that a person wearing cold weather hand coverings could easily work the control while gripping the tool. The light is directed through a lens to illuminate the area that the chuck engages the trip rotor to provide the user with a well-illuminated area of work when engaging or disengaging the device from the tip up apparatus.

Abstract: A seat belt pretensioner has a piston; a tube housing the piston; a force reservoir, activatable when a crash is sensed, to drive the piston along the tube; a resilient steel band connected to the piston; and means for selectively connecting the steel band to a retractor spool. Preferably the force reservoir is a gas generator which may be pyrotechnically activated and has an output in the tube on one side of the piston to drive the piston along the tube pulling the steel band and engaging the connecting means to turn the retractor spool and shorten the belt webbing. The steel band has indexing features, such as indexing holes or slots to engage teeth on the outer periphery of a drive wheel attached to the retractor spool. As the steel band is pulled by the piston it tightens around the drive wheel and the indexing holes engage the teeth, turning the drive wheel and thus the spool and pulling in the webbing to secure the vehicle occupant.

Abstract: The device comprises in combination: a carriage (1) movable in a direction of displacement between a loading and unloading position and an unwinding position; on said carriage, at least one oscillating arm (25) for supporting at least one reel (B) of web material, and at least one actuator (39) for moving said oscillating arm; in the unwinding position, a flexible unwinding member (45) driven around a plurality of pulleys (47, 49, 51, 53), at least one of which is motorized, a member (61) for tensioning the flexible unwinding member being associated with at least one (47) of said pulleys.

Abstract: A drive for a belt tensioner for safety belts has a drive chamber formed between two plates. A drive band whose two ends are fastened to a drive shaft such that the drive band forms a loop which can be exposed to expanding gas discharged from a gas outlet such that the drive band winds off and drives the drive shaft. The drive band is fixed to the plates by a fixing apparatus at a position disposed between its ends.

Abstract: A seat belt retractor has a spool mounted for rotation on the retractor frame, for retraction or pay-out of seat belt webbing depending upon the rotation direction of the spool. The spool is locked against rotation when a crash is sensed. A force limiting mechanism allows further pay-out of the seat belt webbing after the spool shaft has locked, under the influence of a vehicle occupant's forward momentum. The force limiting means includes a torsion bar attached in the force path between the spool and its axis of rotation; and a resilient mechanism. A mechanism selectively connects the resilient mechanism into the force path between the spool and its axis of rotation. A selecting mechanism selectively activates the connecting means in response to a control signal.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a device for discharging webs at a predetermined web speed in an uninterrupted process, in which the web end (37) on an initially active take-off roll (2) must be placed against and joined to the beginning of a web on a roll initially situated in a waiting station. To this end, the web tension in the processing line (39) is adjusted to a predetermined target value. In order to influence the web tension in additional areas during the joining of the web ends (37), a web accumulator equipped with an externally controlled drive is provided in addition to the compensation system.