Abstract: A feed mechanism for sheets of material or continuous webs in a printer or typewriter, comprising a pin wheel feed mechanism for the feeding of continuous webs and a friction feed mechanism for the feeding of sheets of paper as well as the webs. The pin wheel feed mechanism and the friction feed mechanism are coupled together in at least two separate units for the feeding of the webs. During feeding of the webs the frictional feed pressure is reduced compared to that prevailing during friction feed of the sheets when the pin wheel feed mechanism is inactive.

Abstract: A universal paper transport mechanism for feeding both continuous form and single sheet paper to a printer includes pin belt tractors longitudinally displaceable along a guide bar transversed to the direction of movement of the paper, the tractor is driven from a laterally positioned motor. The tractor drive transport mechanism is pivotable from a horizontal position to a vertical position and attachable and detachable guiding elements are provided for use with single sheet paper, and are affixable to the tractor transport mechanism in an area adjacent and above a printing station area. The guiding elements are substantially symmetrical relative to one another and can be attached to the guide strip of the tractor transport mechanism on which the individual pin belt tractor assemblies are guided.

Abstract: A tractor for a web feeding assembly has a chassis providing a pair of apertures extending therethrough and a belt extending thereabout. A drive pulley mounted in one of the chassis apertures is engaged with the driven surface of the belt and has an aperture therethrough receiving the drive shaft. Convexly arcuate belt support means cooperates with the drive pulley to define the web drive path for the belt therebetween, and a cover on the chassis overlies the belt and web drive path. Belt tensioning means is movably supported on the chassis below the drive path for resiliently biasing the belt against the guide means. As a result, pressures on the belt during operation of the tractor tending to produce deflection away from the cover are resisted by the belt tensioning means to maintain a rectilinear drive path for the web tightly against the cover.

Abstract: The developer-printer assembly comprises a housing having a plurality of tanks formed therewithin for confining developing fluid, fixing fluid, wash water and rinse water, and a plurality of conveying roller assemblies and guides for directing and conveying photographic papers, i.e., photosensitive papers or negatives, which are to be developed and printed, between the tanks, through the fluids and waters. The conveying roller unit, a plurality of which are employed in the developer-printer assembly, has a pair of rollers spaced apart with an intermediate roller interposed therebetween, and bands replaceably looped about the pair of rollers and atop the intermediate roller, for constraining the photographic papers firmly to the intermediate roller. The unit further has a trough for positively directing papers to the intermediate and pair of rollers.

Abstract: An improved transport for developing film in a photographic film processor, the transport received in a tank having film processing liquids therein. The transport characterized by having a housing with film guide rollers that are mounted on removable bearings so that the individual rollers can be quickly removed from the housing without having to disassemble the housing end plates. Further, the transport is modular in design so that the housing end plates with rollers can be added or subtracted for changing the film process cycle time.

Abstract: A filament-feeding apparatus for a wet freshly dyed yarn has a feed wheel centered on and rotatable about an axis and having a pair of side parts having generally circular peripheries lying in parallel spaced-apart planes perpendicular to this axis, and a plurality of angularly spaced center parts axially bridging the side parts and having outer edges axially aligned with the peripheries. The wheel is open and free of structure in zones radially inward of the peripheries and radially outward of secants extending between the outer edges. A flexible endless belt having a width equal at least to the axial spacing between the peripheries is held by a plurality of pulleys in a circular arc radially against these peripheries so that the belt forms upstream and downstream nips at the ends of the circular arc.

Abstract: A single facer includes a pressure member adjacent the lower corrugating roll to apply pressure for effecting bonding of a corrugated web and a liner web, the liner web being adjacent the surface of the pressure member. The pressure member is provided, in the area facing the lower corrugating roll, with an arcuate surface having a curvature equal to or exceeding that of an arc extending through the tips of the flutes of the corrugating roll. The pressure member is of a circumferential length at least exceeding the distance between two adjacent flutes of the corrugating roll. In order to reduce the friction between the arcuate surface of the pressure member and the liner web passing thereover, a conveyor in the form of an endless belt is disposed with a portion thereof extending between the arcuate surface of the pressure member and the liner web.

Abstract: The developer-printer assembly comprises a housing having a plurality of tanks formed therewithin for confining developing fluid, fixing fluid, wash water and rinse water, and a plurality of conveying roller assemblies and guides for directing and conveying photographic papers, i.e., photosensitive papers or negatives, which are to be developed and printed, between the tanks, through the fluids and waters. The conveying roller unit, a plurality of which are employed in the developer-printer assembly, has a pair of rollers spaced apart with an intermediate roller interposed therebetween, and bands replaceably looped about the pair of rollers and atop the intermediate roller, for constraining the photographic papers firmly to the intermediate roller. The unit further has a trough for positively directing papers to the intermediate and pair of rollers.

Abstract: Apparatus for successively receiving and transporting long cut lengths of wire from a wire cutting mechanism and stacking the cut lengths in a receiver, a pair of long looped belts being supported with confronting surface faces coacting to form a longitudinally moving V-trough having an inlet and coupled with the wire delivery end of the cutting mechanism. One of the belts is supported on a fixed frame structure, and the other belt is supported upon a pivoted frame structure, a power actuator being selectively energizable to swing the pivoted frame structure in a direction to separate the converging belts and form an elongate discharge opening along the bottom of the trough through which the delivered cut wire length in the trough may be discharged by gravity into a receiver, and thereafter swing the pivoted frame in an opposite direction to close the discharge opening.

Abstract: A method of and a device for applying an enlacing tape around an object, in hich the tape is taken along its path around the object to be enlaced by an endless conveyor belt by its being held urged against said belt and at the same time is fed by a tape feeding device at the speed of the belt during the full period of its movement around the object.

Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for the attenuation or advancing of strand material, such as glass strands. The apparatus includes a single belt and a plurality of wheels around which the belt is driven and guided. The strand is attenuated as it passes between the belt and one of the wheels. The wheel which, along with the belt, attenuates or advances the strand may have a plurality of pins or bars to form its exterior surface, which surface is then discontinuous. Alternatively, this wheel surface may be continuous. The driving force for the belt comes from another of the wheels, with the driving force being applied to the belt on the opposing surface of the belt from that which contacts the strand.

Abstract: Three or more tanks holding photographic processing solutions are arranged in series in a processing machine that transports photographic material sequentially in and out of each tank by turn-around assemblies inside each tank and by crossover assemblies between adjacent tanks. Each assembly includes a driven roller and an endless belt which holds the processed material against the periphery of the driven roller. Similar assemblies feed the first tank at the input end of the machine and deliver the material from the last tank at the exit end of the machine.

Abstract: A wire-feeding mechanism comprises a rotatably mounted pulley formed on its edge with a continuous circumferential groove and plural rollers arranged to hold an endless flexible belt against a segment of the edge of the pulley. The belt thus is adapted to hold the wire in the groove as one roller is driven.

Abstract: A fixed guide plate is disposed on one side along a paper passage before and after turning bars, and a circulating running belt is disposed on the other side along said paper passage, so that the front end of running paper is fed in the state gripped therebetween; in each turning bar, the end portion of said guide plate is curved along the peripheral face of the turning bar with a clearance corresponding to the paper thickness, so that the front end of running paper is guided by said curved portion; and an endless belt from which a sticking plate projects toward the paper running passage is made to stand by at the point where the front end of running paper separates from the final turning bar, so that the top of running paper is stuck to the sticking plate of the endless belt and withdrawn from the turning bar mechanism; or, in each turning bar, flanged pins are planted on the side face of the circulating running belt, and a female type rail curved along the peripheral face of the turning bar with a clearance

Abstract: In a film conveyor for use in developing films comprising a first and a second belt racks consisting of a plurality of narrow belts and pressure rollers, and a roller rack consisting of a plurality of squeegee rollers and spray tubes arranged between said two belt racks, the pressure rollers of the two belt racks are so positioned as to press the belts at the mid points of two vertically adjacent squeegee rollers, and the squeegee rollers of the roller rack are arranged in two vertical rows between which an adequate number of said spray tubes are horizontally disposed so that developing solution may be sprayed out directly toward between said two rows of squeegee rollers. Further, the squeegee rollers of the roller rack are driven in synchronism with the moving speed of the belts so as to effect smooth conveyance of the film held between the belts and the squeegee rollers.

Abstract: An elongatable endless belt passes around four rollers and, in so doing, passes adjacent to the heated surface of a U-shaped platen which has its edges adjacent to two of the rollers. The surface of the belt which faces the platen is in driving engagement with a film coming from a recording means. One of the noted two rollers is driven faster than the other so that the belt moves the film along the platen surface and leaves one edge of the latter at a higher speed than that at which the belt arrives at the other edge of the platen surface. Therefore, the belt progressively elongates and moves along the film as it is moving the latter along the platen surface.

Abstract: A device for pulling up and paying out an oil boom comprises a structural frame, a pair of end pulleys horizontally journaled on the frame, an endless belt engaged with the end pulleys and having a plurality of engaging projections for oil boom and a pusher member for slightly urging the oil boom against the endless belt, the pusher member being resiliently supported by a supporting member with a proper distance held between the bottom portion of the pusher member and the upper surface of the endless belt.

Abstract: Apparatus for use in a sanding and shaping or other machine comprised of a plurality of individually mounted feeding and hold down members adapted to engage and hold a work piece against a table and against a guiding fence as the work piece is fed through the machine to keep the work piece from turning or binding in the machine.

Abstract: A device is disclosed, for treating a material (for example photographic films) through a plurality of processing baths, different stay times being required in different baths. The desired variations of the stay times are obtained by varying the geometrical configuration of the material strip, this being obtained by causing the travel path of the material to be varied geometrically by increasing or reducing lap bends introduced in the strip of material by lifting or depressing a few conveying rollers.

Abstract: A thread delivery device, particularly for use with a texturing device, is described wherein an endless belt runs over two freely mounted rollers on a pivotable support. In the operative position of the support, the belt between the rollers contacts a power driven cylinder over a predetermined wrap angle. In this position, an adjustable abutment keeps a spring loaded belt guide element out of contact with the belt. However, when the support is swung to an inoperative position in which the belt is withdrawn from the driving cylinder, the abutment ceases to be effective so that the guide element, which is carried by a pivotally mounted arm to which the spring is applied, engages the belt and takes up the slack that would otherwise appear due to the elimination of the wrap on the cylinder. The spring may be connected either to the support or to a fixed part.

Abstract: Disclosed is document transport apparatus for advancing documents between two locations, for example between the printing and output stations of copying equipment, the transport apparatus including a high friction continuously driven belt cooperating with a stationary strip of low friction material to define a transport guideway path for the documents with document pinch points being defined along spaced locations of the guideway path. The continuous belt is preferably of a cross-sectional size and configuration to transportably engage the documents along a line contact at, or immediately adjacent, the edge thereof.

Abstract: This invention provides a U-shaped pathway for cut film and prints as the cut sheets are automatically moved in a prescribed manner, path and speed through a processing tank or tanks. This transport is between rollers which are spaced from each other sufficiently so that any potential squeezing or pressing on the emulsion surface of the film is safely absent. Large rollers are arranged in three vertical columns and provide the down and up travel path of the film. At the bottom of this transport path a large roller provides an inside guide for the film. A series of small rollers provide an outer guide path for the U-shaped transport section of film. These small rollers are driven as are all the other rollers but this outer U-guide is formed of short rollers arranged in an intermeshed pattern to provide a closely guided contour. Short small rollers are carried in spaced array on common shafts.

Abstract: A conveyor apparatus for transporting sheets in a longitudinal direction along a transport path comprises a plurality of guide rollers arranged in axially spaced parallel relation and extending transverse to the direction of sheet transport. An endless belt means is provided having a lower run thereof coacting with the guide rollers to capture a sheet between the lower run of the belt and the guide rollers for advancing the sheet in a transport path. Selected ones of the guide rollers are positively driven and have their axes lying on an arc of slight curvature extending between axes of a first and a last guide roller with the arc curved upwardly towards the transport path. This arrangement provides a slight curvature to the lower run of the belt means to increase the frictional force exerted on the sheets for positive transport of the sheets in the transport path.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for placing magnet wire in the slots respectively defined by spaced, parallel blades of coil transfer apparatus which lie on an imaginary cylinder thereby to form a dynamoelectric machine field winding. The wire is pushed and simultaneously guided with a motion having components in at least two mutually perpendicular directions in a path having sections respectively aligned with at least two of the slots thereby to push the wire into the slots, the path also having sections respectively within and outside of the cylinder.

Abstract: A yarn transport mechanism for a needle band weaving machine comprising a carrier which can be placed into revolving motion with variable speed, said carrier possessing a friction coating against which there can be placed the yarn which is to be conveyed for the purpose of entrainment thereof.

Abstract: An endless belt is disposed between the cloth take-off roller of a weaving machine and the pressing roller in order to press a cloth passing between the belt and the take-off roller or between the belt and each of the take-off roller and pressing roller. The belt is disposed around a pair of tubes which are freely mounted within the belt.