Abstract: A slitting and transporting roller of the described type for sheets of material is suitable particularly as a mating roller in an apparatus for winding up sheets of film, paper and similar materials coming in continuously. In the inner cavity of the roller, a separator is inserted, which forms with the periphery of the roller the boundary at least one pressure space which extends essentially axially over the whole axial length of the roller and is in contact over penetrating boreholes in the roller sheath with the surroundings. Outside of the region of the penetrating boreholes the periphery of the roller additionally is provided with a penetrating slot, which extends, in turn, essentially over the whole axial length of the roller, for a separating slitter supported in the inner cavity of the roller.

Abstract: An adapter (1) for dispensers receiving coreless toilet paper rolls (3) having a receptacle (2) into which to place a coreless toilet paper roll (3) and at least one suspension arrangement (8) for fastening the adapter (1) to conventional mountings (9) of wall mounted dispensers (10) use for core-type toilet paper rolls.

Abstract: A tape cartridge 1 including a cartridge body 2 including an upper half 2a and a lower half 2b, a magnetic tape 20 with a distal end being continuous with a leader tape 10, and a single tape reel 3 having the magnetic tape 20 taken up thereon and rotate-ably received within the cartridge body 2, wherein a thickness t2 of the leader tape 10 at an end edge portion 12 of a connecting portion 11 thereof connected to the magnetic tape 20 is larger than eight times but less than or equal to twenty times a thickness t1 of the magnetic tape 20.

Abstract: A tape reel includes a main body including an outer peripheral cylinder on which a magnetic tape is wound, a cylindrical bearing disposed in the center of the outer peripheral cylinder, and radial ribs radially extending from the cylindrical bearing. An upper flange is mounted to the tape-reel main body through its protrusions press fit into holes of junctions of the radial ribs.

Abstract: A turret winder for winding web material on spindle-supported cores has a turret which is moveable into three indexing positions, one of which is a web transfer, cutting and winding station, and another of which is a winding completion station. Frames adjacent to the turret support carriages which support a secondary lay-on roll. The carriages include a primary carriage which is moveable vertically with respect to the turret and a lay-on roll carriage which is moveable horizontally with respect to the primary carriage. The lay-on roll carriage has an arm which is engaged by the turret during movement of the spindle between the above two positions so that arcuate movement of the spindle is translated to movement of the lay-on roll carriage in such a manner that the lay-on roll accurately follows the movement as the building roll moves to the winding completion station.

Abstract: A circular crown shaped pressure disk (1), furnished with, on its external rim, jutting stirrup shaped, flexible elements (2) whose size makes them press on the internal surface of the drum (7) within which the disk is housed. The internal rim of the disk is equipped with winglets (3) and with flexible tabs (5) directed nearly tangentially in respect to the tubular trunk (8), placed at the center of the drum (7). The flexible tabs are for stopping the rise of the bundle of coils so as to impede their knotting and to help guiding the wire, as it is pulled to the outside of the drum and unwound from the bundle.

Abstract: A wall mounted toilet paper dispenser, comprising a back wall member having two side edges and a width slightly wider than a roll of toilet paper. Opposing side walls are coupled to the two side edges of the back wall member, each side wall having a front edge and an interior face forming opposing sides of a compartment for housing the roll of toilet paper. The side walls include opposing receptacles configured for receiving opposing ends of a telescopically sliding, spring biased toilet paper support tube. A mounting flange is coupled to the front edges of the opposing side walls and extends around an opening of the compartment as a perimeter fascia. At least one of the interior faces of the side walls includes a recessed guide channel having an open channel end exposed near the opening of the compartment for receiving an end of the support tube when the support tube is fully extended.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for winding tissue webs into a parent roll includes a rotatable reel drum having a flexible outer shell for engaging a web of tissue paper against a reel spool. A deflection sensor is mounted adjacent to the inner surface of the outer shell for measuring the amount of deflection of the flexible outer shell caused by the paper roll. The amount of deflection is related to the pressure at the nip point and, by moving the reel spool and flexible reel drum away from each other as the diameter of the paper roll increases, the pressure can be controlled at a desired level. Accordingly, a predetermined light nip pressure can be applied to the roll as the tissue web is wound thereon and large parent rolls of high bulk tissue can be manufactured with desired properties when unwound.

Abstract: The winding of tape into pads is effected on a machine which controls the tension in the tape as it is laid onto the pad by a lay-on roller which also drives the rotation of the pad. A pad is a spiral winding of tape in which each turn of tape is laid directly on top of the previous turns. The machine includes a series of cores one for each tape mounted on a shaft for independent rotation of each core relative to the shaft. The tape is directed from common guide rollers to a series of individual arms one for each tape with each arm being mounted on a shaft for individual adjustment along the length of the shaft to a position associated with the particular core. The shaft drives a lay-on roller at an outer end of the arm and the arm can pivot about the shaft to accommodate changes in diameter of the package as built.

Abstract: An apparatus (20, 400) comprising: first driven gear (402) operatively linked a spool of a retractor (20) to rotate the spool (24) in a direction of retraction to cause a seat belt (31) wound thereabout to retract; flexible first driving member (430, 432) having a front end (435) initially maintained out of engagement with the driven gear and pushed into engagement with the first driving member to cause same to rotate; second driving member (420) operatively linked to a rear end of the first driving member for pushing the first driving member into engagement with the driven gear thereby causing the driven gear to rotate.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing a roll or log of bathroom tissue or kitchen toweling with a pattern being repeated between each pair of transverse perforations wherein an extensible web having a pattern thereon repeated at equally longitudinally spaced position is advanced along a path toward a rewinder having a knife-equipped perforator and a cutoff mechanism. A detector senses the position of each pattern and also sensed is the position of the perforation knife with the positions being reported to a controller. The perforation knife is adjusted to insure that each perforation is between pattern positions and the cutoff mechanism is adjusted to stay in time with the transverse lines of perforations to provide a selected count of patterns in each winding cycle.

Abstract: A lined spiral-forming pipe (11) for a spiral-forming head of spiralling machines for metallic wire, comprising a plurality of wear-resistant inserts having an inner hollow through which the metallic wire passes and an outer surface connecting with the inner surface of the spiral-forming pipe (11) and an inner through hollow (12). The wear-resistant inserts (10) are substantially all alike with a substantially annular conformation with a longitudinal dimension ("1") mating with the minimum radius of curvature of the spiral-forming pipe (11), and have rounded front faces (10a) at least partly convex. The inner through hollow (12) comprises a first lead-in segment (12a) to introduce the metallic wire and a second following segment (12b) which is substantially cylindrical. Also included is a method to recondition a spiral-forming pipe (11) of a spiral-forming head in spiralling machines for metallic wire.

Abstract: Servomechanisms (58 and 60) control a takeup reel (12) and a tension arm (16) in a cassette recorder. The servomechanisms receive control signals (54 and 56) generated in accordance with respective control functions, each of which includes a respective constituent function of the difference between a commanded tension-arm position and a measured tension-arm position. In a position of the tension arm that prevails at the beginning of tape threading the constituent of the tension-arm control function that depends on this arm-position error is a relatively large contribution and gradually decreases to zero as the tension arm moves to the position that it assumes for normal recording and playback. During the same time, the the constituent of the reel-control function that depends on arm-position error begins at zero and gradually increases. Such a gradual transfer of position-error-based control suppresses tape-tension transients that would otherwise result.

Abstract: An apparatus for conveniently storing and retrieving leads associated with a patient monitor in a medical room. The apparatus comprises a rectangular plate having opposed top and bottom edges and opposed left and right edges. For each of the monitor leads a pair of spaced-apart, opposed hooks is mounted on the plate near opposed edges, with each of the hooks comprising a stem having a first end in contact with the plate and a second, opposite end and a longitudinal axis. An arm extends perpendicularly outwardly from the stem second end. At least one of each pair of hooks also has a means for allowing rotation of the stem and arm about the longitudinal axis. Accordingly, each of the cords can be wrapped around a pair of hooks for storage when the arms are facing away from each other and the cords can removed from storage by rotating the at least one hook so the arm faces toward the other of the pair.

Abstract: A tape tension adjusting device for use in a video cassette recorder includes a tension lever rotatably mounted on a deck to be biased toward the tape by a spring and having a tension pole coming into contact with the tape, a band holder mounted on the tension lever and having a first fixing portion which is of a cylindrical shape and a second fixing portion which is substantially a semicircle, the first fixing portion having a smaller diameter than that of the second fixing portion, and a band brake retained around the supply reel, for exerting a braking force on the supply reel. One end of the band brake is fixed to the first fixing portion of the band holder and the other thereof is fixed to the second fixing portion of the band holder, thereby controlling a rotating speed of the supply reel and adjusting tape tension.

Abstract: A reel feeding apparatus comprises a rotational shaft to be rotatably driven, plural pairs of reel supporting arms radially provided in an equally divided arrangement around the rotational shaft, each of the pairs of the supporting arms being arranged opposite to each other in an axial direction of the rotational shaft and movable in accordance with the rotation of the rotational shaft, and a reel supporting member rotatably provided at the reel supporting arm. Both sides of the web are supported by the reel supporting members of the opposing pair thereof.

Abstract: A reel table driving apparatus for a tape cassette recorder includes a main plate, a reel table having a reel disk rotatably installed on the main plate, a driving gear coaxially combined with the reel disk, for transmitting a driving force, and a friction gear having a larger diameter than that of the driving gear, for transmitting the driving force to the reel disk by a frictional engagement with the driving gear.

Abstract: In a magnetic tape cartridge in which a guide roller for guiding the running trace of a magnetic tape is mounted on a cartridge body, a through hole is formed at a predetermined position in the cartridge body so that a center shaft of the guide roller is fitted into the through hole. The height of the cartridge body can be reduced, and, in the case where the guide roller is inclined, the inclined angle of the guide roller can be held accurately.

Abstract: A tape reel driving device for generating torques for high and low speed tape travel, has first reel gears respectively combined with the reel driving tables so that each of the first reel gears and a corresponding one of the reel driving tables rotate together, and second reel gears respectively combined with the reel driving tables so that each of the second reel gears rotates by a predetermined frictional force together with a corresponding one of the reel driving tables, each of the second reel gears being capable of racing. A first idler is movably supported to be selectively connected to either one of the first reel gears of the pair of reel driving tables, and a second idler is movably supported to be selectively connected to either one of the second reel gears of the pair of reel driving tables.

Abstract: A recording medium cassette being easily miniaturized if necessary, and a recording and/or reproducing apparatus, such as a VTR, adapted to use the same recording medium cassette. The recording medium cassette includes a printed wiring board having a plurality of information indicating contacts and which is fixed to the bottom wall of a case of the recording medium cassette so that the information indicating contacts are accessible from outside through slots formed in the bottom wall. The recording and/or reproducing apparatus is provided with a plurality of information detecting contacts respectively corresponding to the information indicating contacts of the recording medium cassette. The information detecting contacts may respectively contact the information indicating contacts upon insertion of the recording medium cassette into the recording and/or reproducing apparatus so as to enable information to be transferred therebetween.