Abstract: A stunt kite string winder includes a pair of bracket members which hold a pair of string handles substantially spaced apart and in generally parallel relationship to each other. A crank handle extends from each bracket member so that the winder can be rotated about axis which is located between the string handles. A resilient member biases the brackets towards each other to releasably hold the string handles therebetween.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for winding up a magnetic tape in a cassette comprises first and second conveyance devices. The first conveyance device receives a cassette case, in which magnetic tape has not yet been wound up, at a receiving position, conveys the cassette case to a wind-up waiting position, at which said first conveyance means device provides the cassette case to the second conveyance device, and returns to the receiving position in order to receive a new cassette case in which magnetic tape has not yet been wound up. The second conveyance device conveys the cassette case to a wind-up position at which a magnetic tape is wound up in the cassette case. The second conveyance device then conveys the cassette case, in which the magnetic tape has been wound up, to the wind-up waiting position.

Abstract: A magnetic tape contact printing apparatus includes a rotational transfer drum for driving a copy tape in intimate contact with a mother tape on which information signals are recorded, these information signals being transferred from the mother tape to the copy tape. The apparatus also includes a sensor for sensing the rotational speed of the rotational transfer drum, a pair of reel discs each mounting a copy tape supply reel and a copy tape take-up reel about which the copy tape is wound, and a pair of reel disc motors for driving the reel discs. A pair of tensioning devices respectively tension the copy tape running between the copy tape supply reel and the rotational transfer drum and between the latter and the copy tape take-up reel.

Abstract: A flangeless-type reel holder for a device manufacturing reels of video film including a ring-type leaf spring fitted around the reel holder. The reel holder is fitted around a sleeve mounted on a drive shaft of the device, by means of a bearing interposed therebetween. The reel holder is directly coupled to the outer rim of the bearing. The outer diameter of the leaf spring fitted around the reel holder is larger than that of an annular rim of the reel holder so that the inner peripheral surface of a reel hub to be fitted around the reel holder can closely contact with the outer surface of the leaf spring.

Abstract: The textile machine has a cooling fluid circuit for dissipating heat from the heat-emitting parts of the textile machine. The cooling circuit has a coil disposed within an air duct of the textile machine from which the air can be blown to the outside. A longitudinally extending fly suction duct may also be used for cooling the cooling fluid of a cooling circuit used to cool the motor and convertor of the textile machine. The fly duct thus serves to remove heat as well as fly from the machine.

Abstract: A winding apparatus for winding webs of paper, textile fabric, synthetic plastic material or other similar webs into tight rolls comprising a winding chamber having an inlet opening at the top and a pair of drive rollers for frictionally driving a roll of material arranged at the bottom, substantially diametrically opposite the inlet opening. One side of the winding chamber is defined by concave surfaces of a plurality of parallel wall elements, and the other side of the winding chamber is defined by a pivotally mounted shell body. In preferred embodiments, alternate devices for fastening a wound roll with an adhesive strip are disclosed. The winding apparatus of the invention can be manufactured at reasonable cost, does not require excessive space, and functions with a high degree of reliability.

Abstract: A method of and device for winding webs of material, especially webs of paper or cardboard, on cores. In the method, the web is wound on cores in a bed created by two drums and the full reels are ejected from the bed above one drum by an arm that swings around the other. Wound reels with a short diameter are compressed between the ejection surface on the ejection arm and the drum that the reel is being ejected over and are lifted out of the bed by a rotation of the drum. The device has a mechanism for ejecting full reels that swings forward toward the bed created by two drums and has an ejection arm with an ejection surface that extends more or less radially toward the drum that the reel swings around. The ejection surface in one embodiment extends as far as the drum that the reel swings around and, once is has swung forward, its upper demarcation will extend into the vicinity of the adjacent drum.

Abstract: In the event of a yarn breakage the pressing roll of the inlet roll pair of a drafting arrangement is raised by a slubbing guide element from the inlet drafting roll or cylinder while simultaneously forming a clamping location for the slubbing or other fiber material.

Abstract: A bit image converter for composing a decoder for converting the value of counting clocks loaded in response to the width of bars or spaces for composing a bar code into character information of a code reader is composed of a module number calculator for calculating the magnification of the basic module from the number of the modules for composing one code unit (one character), a module number total comparator for comparing the total sum of the number of the calculated modules with a specified number n of the modules, a module number corrector for correcting, if the number of the calculated modules is less than the specified number n (n-1), it to the specified number n, and a bit image output unit. Thus, the code reader is adapted for a multilevel bar code system so composed that a result becomes correct information by correcting, if the number of modules for composing one character is less than a specified number n, it.

Abstract: A rolling key for rolling up sleeping bags and the like is provided. A pair of tubular plastic rods are pivotally attached at one end, one of the rods being pivotally displaceable to a position parallel to and spaced from the other rod forming an open ended fork or key. A metal hook inserted through holes in the free ends of the rods fastens the free ends together and clamps a sleeping bag securely between the rods. In use the rolling key provides sufficient widthwise rigidity to easily roll the sleeping bag. A handle attached to attached end of the non-pivotable rod allows the rolled sleeping bag to tightly compress the rolled bag in a compact bedroll.

Abstract: A reel threader for treading the tail of a paper making web around a partial reel. A flexible panel with interior passages forming an air distribution network has openings on one surface to provide a plurality of air streams out of the surface. The panel is positioned by a computer controlled movable support frame in an arc which is spaced from and concentric with the lower and side portion of a partial reel, regardless of its diameter, to form a gap. The tail passes from the nip into the gap and is pulled through the gap by the rotating periphery of the partial reel.

Abstract: A take-up spindle is used to wind thereon a webbing of a seat belt system. The take-up spindle has a shaft defining a slot through which the webbing may extend, a sleeve fitted externally on the shaft and defining a first slot and a second slot therethrough, and an insert filling out the first slot. Each of the first and second slots of the sleeve permits insertion of the webbing therethrough. The second slot of the sleeve serves to guide the webbing out of the sleeve.

Abstract: A cable reel which electrically connects a fixed portion and a movable portion using a flexible strip cable wound numerous times and received between the fixed portion and the movable portion is provided. A plurality of engaging portions are formed as predetermined gaps around the circumference of the fixed portion. A stopper member projects outside the movable portion and elastically presses toward the engaging portion so that the engaging portion engages the stopper member, thereby locking rotation of the movable portion. The engagement of the stopper and the engaging portion is automatically released, and it is possible to freely rotate the movable portion when the cable reel is assembled with a rotating mechanism.

Abstract: A tape unloading mechanism which includes a frictional arrangment for adjusting torque of reel bases is configured to interrupt a frictional motion of the frictional arrangment in the tape unloading mode to ensure a reliable tape winding operation.

Abstract: A coiler has a plurality of frame units. Each frame unit includes a first frame having a free end portion facing to the periphery of a mandrel for coiling a band plate and a base end portion rotatably pivoted to a shaft parallel to the axis of the mandrel. A first drive unit moves the first frame. A second frame is rotatably pivoted at the free end portion of the first frame to a shaft parallel to the axis of the mandrel. A second drive unit moves the second frame. A pressing roller is rotatably supported by the second frame for assisting fastening of the band plate around the mandrel. A circular guide is provided on the second frame to face the mandrel.

Abstract: A device for feeding a tape which severs a web in a paper or cardboard machine includes a tape and a feeding arrangement for feeding the tape to a space located between a reel spool and a reel drum. The feeding arrangement includes an elongate transfer profile which guides the tape to the space between the reel drum and the reel spool. The transfer profile has an elongate space which is enclosed within a plurality of substantially closed sides and in which the tape travels. One of the substantially closed sides is adapted to permit the tape to emerge from the elongate space.

Abstract: In a cassette for accommodating therein a photo-sensitive recording medium, a pair of cassette halves formed of synthetic resin are united together to form a cassette body having defined therein an accommodating chamber for the recording medium. A drawing opening is formed in an outer surface of the cassette body. The recording medium is drawn out of the accommodating chamber through the drawing opening. An optically inert feed passage is defined by cooperation of a wall section of one of the pair of cassette halves with a wall section of the other cassette half when the one and other cassette halves are united together. The feed passage has one end thereof communicating with the accommodating chamber and the other end communicating with the drawing opening such that the recording medium passes through the feed passage when the recording medium is drawn out of the accommodating chamber through the drawing opening.

Abstract: A variable speed D.C. drive is effective to feed a web or strip of sheet metal from a supply coil supported by a pay-off reel to an intermittant stock feeder for a reciprocating mechanical press. The drive is operated by a computer control system according to a predetermined program, and the system includes sensors for monitoring the surface speed of the strip extending from the coil, the reciprocating movement of the press and changes in a loop formed within the strip between the supply coil and the stock feeder. The drive is connected to rotate the coil support mandrel for the pay-off reel or a set of pinch rolls which pull the strip from the coil.

Abstract: Web splicing method and apparatus for use in a web supply line are disclosed in which the following ends of first and second webs respectively wound around first and second old rolls are respectively spliced to the leading ends of first and second webs wound around first and second new rolls to thereby unwind the first and second spliced webs simultaneously and successively and the first and second spliced webs are superposed on each other at a predetermined meeting point before they are supplied. In the web splicing method and apparatus, the timing of start of splicing of the second web is controlled in accordance with the time of completion of the splicing of the first web so that the relative positions of the respective spliced portions of the first and second webs can be shifted from each other by a preset distance or the relative positions thereof can be made to coincide with each other.

Abstract: A winding tension controlling apparatus controls tensile force to be applied to a tire constituting member spirally wound about a building drum. The apparatus comprises a memory device for storing patterns of tensile forces, a detecting sensor for always detecting winding positions of the tire member and a processing unit for obtaining a tensile force value from a pattern of tensile force received on the basis of the memory device and a detected result from the memory device and outputting the tensile force value as a control signal. The apparatus further comprises a regenerative control device for controlling a DC motor connected to a tension roller to cause the tension roller to rotate at a speed slower by a predetermined value than a running speed of the tire member wound about the building drum and a display device for displaying various informations concerning winding of the tire member.