Abstract: A creel component and a creel manufactured of several such components for textile yarn packages is illustrated having four arms with each arm having a yarn package holder at the end thereof. At a point central to said yarn package holders is a component with at least one yarn guide for the pulling of yarn from the yarn packages mounted on said holders. Above said yarn guides are a yarn tension device, a yarn stop motion, and additional yarn guides. The disclosed arrangement provides for yarn packages positioned closely together with simplified yarn flow so as to produce a creel with compact dimensions.

Abstract: A forms leader is disclosed for use in printing of business forms by a printing device. The leader includes a rectangular sheet of flexible material having a series of line holes formed along the edges of the sheet. The sheet is folded along a crease to define a front portion of the sheet which is of less length than a rear portion. The crease is further positioned so that the line holes formed on the front portion align with those of the rear portion. An adhesive strip is formed across the front surface of the rear portion of the sheet, the strip being positioned along the surface so that at least a portion thereof is above a line corresponding to the bottom edge of the front portion. The adhesive has a relatively low tack, whereby the form can be removably secured to the adhesive with the front portion of the sheet extending over a portion of the form and the line holes of the form aligning with those of the sheet.

Abstract: The delineating cylinder of the web apparatus of this invention has a cutout around one-third of its periphery to be out of contact with the web through an idle phase of its rotational cycle during which a web portion at that cylinder is drawn rearward through an adjustably variable distance. Through the remainder of that cycle that web portion is moved forward in step with delineating cylinder rotation. Upstream and downstream from that cylinder are feed roller pairs, driven through a variable ratio planetray transmission, whereby other portions of the web are moved forward steadily at the rate of one repeat interval length per delineating cycle. Between each pair of feed rollers and the delineating cylinder is a control roller around which there is a loop of web. Each control roller is moved bodily in an orbit whereby its loop is alternately increased and permitted to decrease. The radius of its orbit is adjustably variable for variation of repeat interval length.

Abstract: In an apparatus such as a camera which automatically performs film winding and rewinding by means of a motor, an automatic rewinding circuit is arranged to detect interruption of a winding action by means of a timer circuit which is set at a length of time longer than a predetermined length of winding time. Upon detection of the interruption, the automatic rewinding circuit automatically shifts the winding action to a rewinding action. The apparatus is also provided with a memory storage which mechanically memorizes the operating state of the automatic rewinding circuit or with a forced rewinding device which permits a rewinding operation irrespective of the operating state of the automatic rewinding circuit.

Abstract: A winder for continuously winding a traveling web such as paper onto a large roll with a support roll in contact with the roll being wound such as where the support roll is one or both of a pair of parallel horizontally extending drums with the outer surface of the drum being of rubber with embedded nonextensible annular cords and the surface being supported by a plurality of inflatable chambers along the length of the drum so that the outer surface of the drum deforms with contact with the roll being wound and accommodates irregularities along the length of the roll being wound.

Abstract: The invention relates to a hub for magnetic tape cassettes, especially compact cassettes, and to magnetic tape cassettes possessing such hubs. In a first embodiment, spring means are provided on the inner periphery of the hub and exert radial pressures on the drive spindle, the spring means consisting, for example, of sprung teeth. In a further embodiment, the teeth have a spring rate of from about 1 P/mm to 40 P/mm. In another embodiment, the hub consists of an inner part and an outer part which can be coupled to one another and between which there is some play after coupling. A large number of specific examples of hubs are given to show possible shapes and arrangements of the teeth, and to show the types of material that can be used. In an advantageous embodiment, the inner part of the two-part hub can also be made a part of the drive spindle on the recorder, which inner part can be coupled with the outer part when the drive spindle enters the cassette.

Abstract: A rope reel display and dispensing assembly for perforated panel boards often referred to as Pegboards in which reels of ropes, wire, cable, chains, tubing, hose products can be dispensed in measured continuous lengths and which are supported in rows upon the panel board in such a manner that reels are individually removable without disturbing any of the other reels of the row. All reels are connected to rod brackets, projecting forwardly from the panel board, by rod extending adapters that are in turn respectively snap-fitted to the forward-extending rod brackets and to which reel adapters that will have been inserted respectively in the respective opposite ends of the reels and will slide fit down upon the rod adapters and be removable with the reel from the extended axial-aligned assembly of reels.

Abstract: A tape cassette comprises a cassette case comprising a main cassette body having a front opening at the front thereof and a lid rotatably mounted on the main cassette body for normally covering the front opening, and a sliding body slidably provided within the main cassette body so that a part of the sliding body is extractable through the front opening for supporting a pair of tape rolls of a magnetic tape. The sliding body comprises guide parts for guiding the magnetic tape between the pair of tape rolls along the front of the sliding body and a cutout part through which the magnetic tape along the front of the sliding body traverses. When the tape cassette is not in use the sliding body is completely accommodated within the main cassette body and the cutout part is covered by a bottom plate of the main cassette body.

Abstract: The present invention relates to fast forward (FF) and fast rewind (REW) mechanism of a magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus. This mechanism has: first and second arms to which first and second gears for tranferring the rotational forces of first and second flywheels to first and second reel axes are rotatably supported; a driving plate whose rotating direction differs in accordance with the running direction of a magnetic tape; and an FF lever and an REW lever for rotating this driving plate, wherein the driving plate is rotated by operating the FF or REW lever, the first or second arm is rotated by this driving plate, the rotation of first or second flywheel can be transferred to the first or second reel axis, and the FF operation is performed when operating the FF lever and the REW operation is executed when operating the REW lever irrespective of the running direction of the magnetic tape.

Abstract: A magnetic tape reel (10) is illustrated which includes a central hub (A) and a back flange (B) and a front flange (C). The central hub (A) is symmetrical about a plane represented by line (26) which is normal to the reel axis (28) passing through the axial center of the reel. Through a section of the central hub there is provided a compression resisting Y-shaped section (D) that includes a transversely widened web stem (44) which carries an enlarged compression-resisting body at the top thereof which carries the tape winding ring (12). The compression-resisting body includes a shoulder (46) and a Y-shaped crossarm (48). Winding of tape on the tape winding ring (12) causes compression forces which are effectively resisted by the structure afforded through the Y-shaped web section (D). Attachment between the back flange (B) and the central hub is had between a ledge supporting surface (78) and a side of the shoulder (46b).

Abstract: A textile yarn creel having a circular supporting framework and plural yarn package supporting members mounted removably and circumferentially slidably thereabout and axially thereof, the supporting members having plural radially inwardly extending pins for mounting of yarn packages thereon for radially inward yarn withdrawal. Guide eyelet members are mounted in a circular arrangement on the circular framework radially inwardly spaced from the package supporting members for receiving the yarns and for direction therefrom to an associated textile machine e.g. a multi-feed circular knitting machine. The package supporting members may be selectively mounted at substantially any locations and spacings circumferentially about the framework for selective expansion and reduction of the creel capacity without changing the floor space occupied.

Abstract: An improved creel assembly for use with strand winding devices such as warpers or the like. The creel has modules supporting yarn packages on both an active side and an inactive side, and also has yarn tensioning devices separately associated with both sides of the modules. The modules and yarn tensioning devices rotate as an entire assembly. Fresh yarn packages thus can be preloaded on the inactive side of the creel, and prethreaded through the tensioning devices associated with the inactive side, before the creel modules are rotated to the active side of the creel. Also disclosed is an improved balloon guard having a yarn opening sufficiently large to accommodate a person's hand for threading yarn through the opening, yet which accomplishes the anti-ballooning function of the balloon guard.

Abstract: A dispenser for rolled material includes a pair of opposed support arms each provided with a cylindrical support for insertion within a tube about which the rolled material is scrolled. A tubular support assembly is provided for insertion within each cylindrical support for increasing the degree of axial support for more positively supporting and securing the roll upon the dispenser. The support tube may be designed to accommodate a commercially available paper roll dispenser or may be provided within a paper roll dispenser particularly adapted to receive the support tube. The support tube includes a finger grasping bar disposed therein for axially moving the support tube within the support cylinder. A locking bar is secured to the finger grasping bar and projects radially outwardly therefrom through an aperture formed within the support tube for engagement with the support cylinder.

Abstract: A tape cartridge of the type including walls defining an enclosure in which a magnetic tape is directed along a tape guidance path adjacent an edge of the cartridge for access by a magnetic transducer further includes at least three pins bearing against one or both major surfaces of the tape in a direction perpendicular to the plane of the tape, an enlarged shoulder extending from each of the pins toward the tape to bear upon an edge of the tape and provide a containment force parallel to the plane of the tape and in a direction transverse to the direction of tape motion. The shoulders of the pins are arranged alternately along the tape path so that the shoulders of successive pins bear against opposite edges of the tape, and the planes containing the shoulders are spaced a distance equal to or less than the width of the tape to ensure contact between all of the shoulders and the tape edges and positive confinement of the tape in the direction transverse to tape motion.

Abstract: A guiding and braking unit for a material web which passes through a processing machine, such as a machine for the manufacture of packing containers. The unit comprises a roller adapted to a guide cylinder for the web. This roller is manufactured from a material with a high coefficient of friction. The roller is adapted so that it can be swivelled via an arm in a direction transverse to that of the material web to thus follow the material web when it is moved sideways, or axially in relation to the guide cylinder. Each sideways movement, however, because of the suspension of the roller, brings about a lifting of the roller which is continuously counteracted by the pressing of the roller against the cylinder. As a result, the roller is returned automatically to a central position and through friction, carries the material web with it to a central position in relation to the guide cylinder.

Abstract: A video tape cassette rapid rewinding/fast forwarding is characterized by a housing on a surface of which are drive and idler sprockets. To rapidly advance or rewind a cassette, the cassette is placed on the surface to extend the sprockets into its tape reels, with winding or rewinding being determined by the orientation of the cassette and therefore the particular one of its reels engaged with the drive sprocket. A selected one of a pair of microswitches is actuated by the cassette in accordance with its orientation, and controls energization of an electric motor to rotate the drive sprocket in the appropriate direction. Releasable clips hold the cassette on the sprockets and the drive sprocket has tapered teeth, so that upon completion of forwarding or rewinding and termination of rotation of the reels, the cassette is forced off of the drive sprocket and away from the clips to deactuate the microswitch and deenergize the motor.

Abstract: A wire dispensing device having two brackets adapted to mount on spaced apart step ladder support legs and a spool holding shaft spanning the distance between brackets and secured thereto. The shaft is so mounted to the brackets that one end can be swung out for adding or removing spools.

Abstract: A tape cassette dust door polar member, a dust door spring assembly and a related method for manufacturing and assembling the dust door spring assembly. The dust door polar member has a fixed end and a rounded free end. The rounded free end has a wide slit and a narrower slit extending therefrom toward the fixed end. The dust door spring assembly comprises this polar member and a spring having a short first leg and a long second leg angled relative to each other. The short first leg of the spring is positioned within the second slit of the polar member and the second leg of the spring is urged against the dust door to effect torsion of the spring. In the method of assembly, the wide and narrow slits of the dust door polar member sequentially receive the first short leg of the spring and twist the spring in a clockwise direction, to urge the second long leg against the dust door to effect torsion.

Abstract: A variable capacity reusable dual tape dispensing cartridge for use with tape printing machines having guide rings to support the tape within the cartridge, select apertures in the cartridge to allow the cartridge to store large quantities of tape, use of a roller bearing to prevent tape backflow into the cartridge and reusable fastener means to allow the cartridge to be opened and resealed so as to replace tape or repair the internal components of the cartridge.

Abstract: In a tape winding machine, a vacuum probe assembly for attaching one end of a section of tape to an adhesive patch oriented on the periphery of a reel mounted within a cartridge, and means for winding the tape on the reel, severing the tape an reattaching the trailing end to the vacuum probe for subsequent adherence to the reel of the next cartridge.