Abstract: A desktop printing apparatus (100) for 3-D printing an object comprising: a print module (200) and a build module (300) provided in-line in a unitary housing. The print module comprising one or more print heads (230, 230?) for printing a portion of a medium (500) to define a media layer (701) of the object. The build module a build plate (310), and cutting means (321), bonding means and adhesive dispensing means (320) for building the 3D object from a plurality of media layers. The apparatus further comprising a medium transport passage defined in the housing between a medium input and medium output, and a transport means (160) to continuously transport the medium from the medium input along the medium transport passage through the print module for printing and subsequently to the build module for profiling and bonding to define a media layer of the object.

Abstract: A filter package is provided with a support structure, a filter device having terminals, impedance matching circuits formed on the support structure and electrically connected to at least some of the terminals of the filter device, and at least one electrical ground structure electrically connected to the impedance matching circuits. Moreover, the filter package has an outer housing to contain the support structure, filter device impedance matching circuits, and at least one ground structure.

Abstract: A device for the automatic coiling and/or uncoiling on reels (28) of a flexible tape carrier of electronic components (60), the device comprising a coiling location (80) where a reel (28) can be connected to a rotation actuator, and retractable tape guides (35), consisting of articulated jaws (35) that can be closed together forming a channel to guide the flexible tape (60) and connect a free end of the flexible (60) tape (60) to a hub (29) of the reel (28), the device further having a stopper element (87) that engages with the slot in the reel hub, in order to stop the reel in a position in which the slot is aligned with the tape guide.

Abstract: A filter package is provided with a support structure, a filter device having terminals, impedance matching circuits formed on the support structure and electrically connected to at least some of the terminals of the filter device, and at least one electrical ground structure electrically connected to the impedance matching circuits. Moreover, the filter package has an outer housing to contain the support structure, filter device, impedance matching circuits, and at least one ground structure.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for rolling up a metallic strip (1), in particular a steel strip, to a coil (2), the strip (1) being kept under longitudinal tension between a driver (3), consisting of at least one driver top roll (4) and at least one driver bottom roll (5), and a winding pin (6). The strip (1) is rolled up on the winding pin (6) to form the coil (2). In order to prevent the undesired opening of the wound coil in a simple manner, a bending moment (MB) is initiated in the strip, said bending moment acting perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the strip (1) and causing a plastic deformation when a defined remaining length of the strip (1) is reached. The invention also relates to a device for rolling up a metallic strip.

Abstract: A filter package is provided with a support structure, a filter device having terminals, impedance matching circuits formed on the support structure and electrically connected to at least some of the terminals of the filter device, and at least one electrical ground structure electrically connected to the impedance matching circuits. Moreover, the filter package has an outer housing to contain the support structure, filter device, impedance matching circuits, and at least one ground structure.

Abstract: At least two or more flat rectangular wires having been fed separately or simultaneously (two or more are superimposed) are integrated by being pinched in a width direction and a thickness direction by at least two or more pairs of rollers and are rolled and formed simultaneously in a forming part to be formed into two or more flat rectangular electric wires. The two formed electric wires are stacked in layers in a wind-up part while being wound into a disk shape to provide a multi-stage coil. Two or more systems up to the forming part of the winding apparatus may be disposed in a planar layout. Each system may supply one flat rectangular electric wire separately, and the supplied electric wires may be stacked in layers in the wind-up part while being superimposed. The coil may be molded entirely.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for rolling up a metallic strip (1), in particular a steel strip, to a coil (2), the strip (1) being kept under longitudinal tension between a driver (3), consisting of at least one driver top roll (4) and at least one driver bottom roll (5), and a winding pin (6). The strip (1) is rolled up on the winding pin (6) to form the coil (2). In order to prevent the undesired opening of the wound coil in a simple manner, a bending moment (MB) is initiated in the strip, said bending moment acting perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the strip (1) and causing a plastic deformation when a defined remaining length of the strip (1) is reached. The invention also relates to a device for rolling up a metallic strip.

Abstract: The invention concerns an installation comprising: at least two location (15, 15′) for positioning coils (14, 14′) winding a sheet (2) of molding compound material, said locations being in succession along a globally horizontally direction (X-X′): a carriage (20) consisting of a main frame (20A) and a secondary frame (20B), provided with rollers (22) guiding the sheet (2) and mobile (F4) in translation, along said direction (X-X′), between a first position located globally above the first location (15and a second position located globally above the second location (15′), and reciprocally, the main (20A) and the secondary (20B) frames being capable of sliding relative to each other parallel to said horizontal direction (X-X′).

Abstract: The invention relates to a photographic recording arrangement for the recording of photographic images onto a band-shaped medium, with a medium source which a supplies a band-shaped medium, with a clamping arrangement which provides a clamping track and a band-shaped medium output at the beginning of the track through which the band-shaped medium is supplied by the medium source along which clamping track the band-shaped medium is guided and tightened and at the end of which track the guided band-shaped medium is clamped by a first holding mechanism for tightening, with at least one recording apparatus for the recording of images onto the tightened band-shaped medium.

Abstract: The present invention is a tape feeding device with splicing capabilities for reliably conveying parts to a pickup location for attachment to a substrate using a pick and place machine, including an extensible carrier tape reel support, a system for sensing the state of a carrier tape take-up reel, and a split hub take-up reel design to facilitate the removal of carrier tape therefrom.

Abstract: A film running device which enables the film to run stably, which as a whole is small in size, simple in construction and requires easy maintenance. A long film 1 is delivered from a delivery roll 2. A drive rotor R of the delivery roll incorporates an outer rotor-type electric motor 25M therein, and is rotated by the motor.

Abstract: To assure that a tape-shaped package is automatically wound around a reel, a tape winding apparatus includes as essential components a reel driving shaft having a reel fitted thereonto, a tape-shaped package guiding slider for guiding the movement of a tape-shaped package from a pair of pinch rollers to the reel driving shaft, slider driving mechanism for displacing the tape-shaped package guiding slider to each of the tape-shaped package receiving position for receiving the foremost end of the tape-shaped package delivered from the pinch roller, the tape-shaped package delivering position for delivering the foremost end of the tape-shaped package toward the reel, and the tape-shaped package guiding position located between both the foregoing positions for guiding the movement of the tape-shaped package during a winding operation performed for the tape-shaped package by rotating the reel driving shaft, and tape-shaped package foremost end seizing mechanism disposed on the tape-shaped package guiding slider fo

Abstract: A device for winding a carpet strip into a compact roll for handling and transport winds the carpet strip about a motor powered winding spindle controlled by, for example, a foot pedal, the strip being guided onto the spindle by a pair of selectively spaced apart guiding discs. The rolling machine may be attached to the frame of a sewing station through which the strip is passed to provide a binding tape along an edge of the carpet strip, the strip passing without handling from the sewing machine to the carpet strip rolling machine. Pedal or other controls at the sewing machine permit the operator to control both the rolling device and the sewing machine from this single location.

Abstract: A reel slitter includes a slitting station for slitting a material web into partial webs and a winding station to wind the partial webs into partial web rolls. A transporter conveys at least one partial web from the slitting station. The transporter is disposed between the slitting station and the winding station. In order to provide for the winding of the partial webs across the entire width of the partial webs, the transporter has a width which is narrower than the material web. The transporter is also movable transversely to the running direction of the partial webs.

Abstract: A mechanism is provided for unwinding ribbon from a supply spool, for rolling the ribbon to form a wound roll, and for cutting the roll free of the supply. The rolled ribbon segments resulting from this operation are transported to a conveyor for assembly with a toy balloon.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for the winding of a knitted material web which is being delivered from a warp knitting machine to a material roll by using an axial drive which is being regulated by sensors which measure the tension in the material web. For the purpose of winding a knitted elastic material, a spreader roller is arranged adjacent to the run-on site of the web onto the material roll and is held there with a constant gap. In order to maintain an essentially constant gap between the spreader roller and the material roll, the spreader roller undergoes a relative shifting along a radial guide.

Abstract: A warp formed of a multiplicity of parallel filaments is wound on a warp beam by an apparatus having a supply of the warp, a transport roller, and an adjustment roller adjacent the transport roller and movable between a holding position engaging the transport roller and a winding position spaced therefrom. The warp extends from the supply along a path around the transport roller, hen around the adjustment roller, and then around the warp beam. The beam and transport roller are rotated to displace the warp along the path and wind it up on the beam while maintaining the adjustment roller in the winding position. Tension is detected in the warp at least during winding of the warp on the beam and the adjustment roller is displaced during winding of the warp on the beam in a predetermined first direction transverse to the path to increase and decrease the tension to maintain the tension within a predetermined range when the adjustment roller is not in the holding position.

Abstract: A web winding and severing apparatus using a linear carriage arrangement wherein the cores are positioned relative to feed to a winding drum in a bilateral manner such that a core is always adjacent to the drum ready to receive the leading edge of the web. A pair of reciprocating carriages are mounted on a frame which supports a winding drum for rotation. The carriages movement relative to the drum is independent, yet coordinated such that as one carriage carries a filling winding core, the other stands ready on the opposite side of the winding drum with an empty core. As the web is severed the second carriage positions its core to become the winding core and the first carriage moves away to off-load the full core, then, returns to a ready position with a fresh core.

Abstract: A strapping reclaimer includes a strapping feeder. There is a strapping joining station adjacent the feeder. A strapping reeling apparatus is adjacent the strapping joining station. Preferably the feeder includes a strapping straightener. The strapping joining station may include a pair of spaced-apart clamps. Preferably there is a member with a strapping receiving surface extending between the clamps. The member may have two portions mounted for moving apart to stretch joined lengths of strapping or to adjust gaps or degrees of overlapping therebetween. Strapping is reclaimed by feeding lengths of strapping successively to the work area. Adjacent lengths of strapping are joined together. The joined together lengths of strapping are then wound onto a reel.

Abstract: A device for affixing a shaft drive element to a loom warp beam shaft includes a clamping element having teeth, teeth at one end of the drive shaft and teeth on the drive element, and a displacement mechanism for sliding the clamping element and drive element on the drive shaft such that the clamping element teeth and the drive element teeth engage the drive shaft teeth. Upon sliding the drive and clamping elements over the drive shaft, the clamping and drive element teeth and the shaft teeth are mutually rotated to cause oppositely facing flanks on the drive and clamping element teeth to be pressed against corresponding flanks on the drive shaft teeth and thereby prevent relative rotation.

Abstract: A film receptacle for winding a long length of film including a film box having an entrance for admitting a film and a winding member provided in the film box. The winding member including a curled holding portion for winding the film admitted through the entrance and holding for a roll of the film thus wound. The holding portion has a resilience to an expanding force of the film roll in the holding portion, and the resilience is such that the increase in the radius of curvature of the holding portion when the film is wound one turn in the holding portion is substantially equal to the thickness of the film. Thus, newly entering film is wound over the roll of the already wound film, and no slip or friction occurs within the film roll, which facilitates continuous admission of a long length of film at a constant force.

Abstract: A substrate capable of being wound is transported to a substrate carrier and wound onto the latter. For that purpose the substrate is first held in a defined storage position. With the substrate in that storage position the substrate carrier is moved into a threading position and brought into engagement with the substrate. The substrate is then automatically threaded around the substrate carrier. When the threading operation is complete, the substrate carrier is moved into a winding position in which the substrate is wound onto the substrate carrier. The rate of feed at which the substrate is transported by a motor to the substrate carrier is regulatable. The substrate carrier is motor-driven in a controllable manner, at a uniform torque and in dependence on the feed rate at which the substrate is transported to the substrate carrier.