Free End Spindle Patents (Class 242/573.7)
  • Patent number: 10562734
    Abstract: A roll holder is inserted with a hollow tube of one of a first roll having a first inner diameter and a second roll having a second inner diameter greater than the first inner diameter. The roll holder includes a holder and a cam assembly that are supported by a support shaft and movable in an axial direction of the support shaft. The cam assembly includes an abutment and a cam. The abutment contacts a lateral end of the second roll in the axial direction of the support shaft. The cam presses against one of a first presser and a second presser of the holder in a radial direction of the support shaft to cause the one of the first presser and the second presser to press against and hold an inner circumferential face of the hollow tube of the one of the first roll and the second roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Ryo Honda
  • Patent number: 10450158
    Abstract: A mandrel with a biasing assembly that extends the mandrel's life for turning of sheet materials. The mandrel's biasing assembly having a pivot, sleeve, cup and screw that connect a gripper to the arbor and works to alleviate the forces that can cause damage to such a winding machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Inventors: Andrew Frederick Wahlberg, Jr., Anthony Alessandrini
  • Patent number: 8708271
    Abstract: There is proposed a clamping mandrel for a rotationally symmetrical hollow body in the form of a beverage can integrally comprising a body portion and a bottom. Accurate coupling and precise control of the movement of the mandrel is to be transmitted to the hollow body. For that purpose there are provided a plurality of clamping segments forming an outwardly facing cylindrical clamping surface for engaging an inside surface of the hollow body. The clamping segments are radially movably guided. A force-transmission device arranged in the interior of the clamping mandrel is provided for synchronous control of the radial movement of the clamping segments. That provides for controlled precision movement of a hollow body clamped by the clamping device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Ball Packaging Europe GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Noll, Helmut Thate
  • Patent number: 8523100
    Abstract: A bobbin holder for tensioning a bobbin tube and receiving a wound thread bobbin is presented. The bobbin holder includes a rotatable drive shaft that is connected to a drive with a bearing end thereof and that has a tensioning device for tensioning a bobbin tube on a tensioning end. The tensioning device includes a plurality of bobbin tubes on the periphery of the drive shaft and interposed tensioning rings. A tensioning piston guided on the free end of the drive shaft acts upon at least one of the bobbin tubes to deform the tensioning rings. In order to allow the use of high fatigue strength materials for the tensioning ring, the tensioning ring includes a continuous separating slot on the periphery, which extends between two opposite ring ends of the tensioning ring, deformation being essentially achieved by an expansion of the tensioning ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jan Westphal, Claus Matthies, Friedrich Lennemann
  • Patent number: 8029201
    Abstract: A rewinding reel for rewinding a carbon ribbon or a label carrier in a label printer is provided, including a shaft, a gear, at least two sliding bases, at least two outer casing members, a resilient element, and a knob. The gear is mounted to the shaft to mate a transmission of the label printer for driving rotation of the shaft. The sliding bases are mounted to the shaft and are rotatable by the shaft. The sliding bases include movable portions that form camming projections and follower projections respectively in camming engagement with follower projections and camming faces formed on the outer casing members to radially move the outer casing members away from and toward the sliding bases for expanding and contracting the outer casing members in order to selectively loosen the carbon ribbon or the label carrier wound around the outer casing members. The knob is fixed to the movable portions and is manually depressible to move the movable portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: TSC Auto ID Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ching-Wen Chen
  • Patent number: 7905444
    Abstract: A carbon ribbon shaft is provided for a barcode printer and includes a shaft rod and at least one first rotation member and one second rotation member. The shaft rod has an end coupled to a housing of the barcode printer. The first and second rotation members are fit over the shaft rod. Arranged between inside of the first rotation member and the shaft rod is a resilient element that allows the first rotation member to effect resilient rotation with respect to the shaft rod. The first rotation member has an outer surface forming sliding-resistant resilient tabs. Arranged between inside of the second rotation member and the shaft rod is a resilient element that allows the second rotation member to effect resilient rotation with respect to the shaft rod. The second rotation member has an outer surface forming sliding-resistant resilient tabs. The surfaces of first and second rotation members receive a carbon ribbon roll of the barcode printer to fit thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: TSC Auto ID Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ching-Wen Chen
  • Patent number: 7506834
    Abstract: A winding apparatus for a winding material. A drivable rotary shaft having a longitudinal center line (M). A receiving unit for the winding material, which is rotationally connected to the rotary shaft. A clamping unit for reversibly clamping the winding material fast to the rotary shaft. An actuation unit. The clamping unit can be reversibly moved from its clamping position into its release position by at least one translatory movement of the actuation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: Avery Dennison Corporation
    Inventor: Johannes Lenkl
  • Patent number: 7341218
    Abstract: A cooled mandrel for winding a band-type product into a coil, including a set of adjacent segments mounted to slide radially on a central shaft and fitted each of a cooling circuit having two orifices, respectively an inlet orifice and an outlet orifice, connected each, by a connection fitting having a variable length, to a supply or exhaust duct, respectively of a heat exchanging fluid. The linking fittings corresponding to each segment are connected to a distribution part threaded on a lateral face of the shaft, wherein both ducts emerge transversally, respectively of the supply duct and the exhaust duct, which are arranged inside the central shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2008
    Assignee: Siemens VAI Metals Technologies SAS
    Inventors: Dominique Tellier, Jean Perret
  • Patent number: 7007886
    Abstract: A winding spindle for mounting a plurality of yarn winding tubes, and which is formed by an inner tube and an outer tube surrounding the inner tube. The inner tube connects to a drive shaft. Between the inner tube and the outer tube, a clamping device is arranged, which comprises a plurality of clamping elements which extend through openings of the outer tube for mounting the winding tubes. The outer tube extending on the circumference of the inner tube is stayed by a plurality of support members that are arranged in an axially spaced apart relationship between the inner tube and the outer tube. To this end, the support members produce a radially acting clamping force between the inner tube and the outer tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Assignee: Saurer GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Roland Oesterwind, Rainald Voss, Heinz Jäschke, Roland Kampmann, Jorg Spahlinger
  • Patent number: 6883745
    Abstract: An adjusting device is mounted for rotation about a central axis and can be axially actuated. The adjusting device can be displaced or shifted between an inoperative position and at least one working position by an axially displaceable fluid-driven piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2005
    Assignee: Koenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Hartwig Horst Trutschel
  • Patent number: 6883746
    Abstract: A winding device, comprising a ring-shaped holder disposed concentrically with a winding shaft, a ring-shaped slider fitted onto the outer peripheral surface of the holder, and a plurality of chips disposed at angular intervals on a tapered inclined surface formed on the outer peripheral surface of the slider, wherein a fluid pressure passes through a first flow path in the winding shaft, the slider is moved in the axial direction of the winding shaft by a first piston, each chip is moved in the radial direction of the winding shaft by the inclination surface of the slider and pressed against the inner peripheral surface of the winding core so as to hold the winding core, a second piston is pressed against the end face of the holder by a second flow path independent of the first flow path, and the torque of the winding shaft is transmitted to the holder, slider, chips, and winding core by the friction between the second piston and the holder so as to rotate the winding core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2005
    Assignee: Nishimura Seisakusho Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsumi Murachi, Hideo Miura, Takashi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 6786443
    Abstract: An expanding mandrel is useable for rotatably mounting a strip of material that is wound around a sleeve or core. The expanding mandrel includes an ejecting device that is useable to strip the sleeve or core from the mandrel. The ejecting device includes at least a first part, which is rotatable about an axis together with the sleeve or core, and a non-rotatably mounted second part. The first part can strip the sleeve or core from the mandrel by actuation of the second part. That second part is a piston which can be driven by a fluid under pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2004
    Assignee: Koenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Hartwig Horst Trutschel
  • Patent number: 6695248
    Abstract: A light-shielded photosensitive material roll is provided in which a length of a light-shielding flanged cylinder is a length of an extent which enables easy insertion, industrially, of the flanged cylinder into a winding core of the photosensitive material roll, and also, the photosensitive material roll can be stably supported at any of various types of driving shafts. In the light-shielded photosensitive material roll, a spacer sheet, which has substantially a same thickness as a thickness of the light-shielding flanged cylinder, is bonded and fixed to an inner side wall surface of the winding core corresponding to a position at which a distal end portion of a cylindrical portion of the flanged cylinder is extended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masafumi Fukugawa, Nobuhiko Kashiwagi, Taisuke Nakanishi
  • Publication number: 20040026560
    Abstract: A winding device, comprising a ring-shaped holder disposed concentrically with a winding shaft, a ring-shaped slider fitted onto the outer peripheral surface of the holder, and a plurality of chips disposed at angular intervals on a tapered inclined surface formed on the outer peripheral surface of the slider, wherein a fluid pressure passes through a first flow path in the winding shaft, the slider is moved in the axial direction of the winding shaft by a first piston, each chip is moved in the radial direction of the winding shaft by the inclination surface of the slider and pressed against the inner peripheral surface of the winding core so as to hold the winding core, a second piston is pressed against the end face of the holder by a second flow path independent of the first flow path, and the torque of the winding shaft is transmitted to the holder, slider, chips, and winding core by the friction between the second piston and the holder so as to rotate the winding core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2003
    Publication date: February 12, 2004
    Inventors: Atsumi Murachi, Hideo Miura, Takashi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20040011915
    Abstract: A device for mounting a delivery spool (3) having a wound band strip, in particular a labeling delivery spool, is described, which has a mandrel-like mounting core (15), a holding device, by means of which the delivery spool is releasably arrestable and/or is releasably clamped on the mounting core, and a device for axial alignment of the delivery spool. In order to make possible the attachment as well as the adjustment of a delivery spool in a comfortable manner, it is provided that the holding device that secures the delivery spool and the device for axial alignment of the delivery spool can be actuated through a common drive (30, 16). The actuation preferably takes place automatically.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2003
    Publication date: January 22, 2004
    Inventor: Manfred Korthauer
  • Patent number: 6554217
    Abstract: A fiber optic cable winding tool having a disk-shaped base with a central axis, and four quarter-circle spools. Each spool has a fiber optic cable contacting surface with a radius of curvature exceeding a minimum bend radius of the fiber optic cable. The tool further includes four radial guides connected to the disk-shaped base for slidably mounting the four spools on the disk-shaped base such that the spools are radially adjustable relative to the central axis of the disk-shaped base. A resilient ring inwardly biases the spools on the radial guides towards the central axis of the disk-shaped base. A moveable wedge-shaped disk engages the spools to permit the spools to be radially adjustable relative to the central axis of the disk-shaped base. The radial guides permit the spools to be radially collapsed towards the central axis of the disk-shaped base after winding the fiber optic cable to permit removal of the fiber optic cable from the spools.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2003
    Assignee: Stocker Yale, Inc.
    Inventor: Louis Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 6494401
    Abstract: An arbor for temporarily securing a reel to the shaft of a machine such as an unwind machine. A plurality of blades are extendable and retractable from a cylindrical body by means of an axially shiftable cam assembly. The cam assembly shifts in response to an actuator which is mounted on the end of the support shaft which extends from one end of the arbor. In one embodiment the cam assembly carries annular cam members and in another embodiment the cam assembly defines cam grooves having ramps which receive bearing member in cooperation with aligned cam grooves in the blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2002
    Inventors: Franklin C. Bradshaw, Craig D. Churchill
  • Publication number: 20010025899
    Abstract: An arbor for temporarily securing a reel to the shaft of a machine such as an unwind machine. A plurality of blades are extendable and retractable from a cylindrical body by means of an axially shiftable cam assembly. The cam assembly shifts in response to an actuator which is mounted on the end of the support shaft which extends from one end of the arbor. In one embodiment the cam assembly carries annular cam members and in another embodiment the cam assembly defines cam grooves having ramps which receive bearing member in cooperation with aligned cam grooves in the blades.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2001
    Publication date: October 4, 2001
    Inventors: Franklin C. Bradshaw, Craig D. Churchill
  • Patent number: 6216977
    Abstract: For a directly driven coiler for winding rolled strip into coils, a piston/cylinder unit is proposed which can be supplied with pressure medium through rotary feeds arranged on a shaft extension or on a coiler shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2001
    Assignee: SMS Schloemann-Siemag Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Helmut Setzer, Ulrich Patzelt, Georg Gernand
  • Patent number: 5089892
    Abstract: A transversal filter filters an input video signal with a filtering characteristic determined by tap gains. A row of error signals are generated on the basis of a difference between a ghost cancel reference signal in the input video signal and a predetermined reference signal. A magnification setting circuit sets a first magnification in accordance with the row of the error signals. A weight setting circuit converts an output signal from the magnification setting circuit into weighting data and feeding the weighting data into the transversal filter as the tap gains. The weight setting circuit functions to correct the first magnification into a second magnification in accordance with row numbers denoting the respective error signals in the row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1992
    Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsushi Koguchi, Shigehiro Ito, Kazuyuki Ebihara, Yuji Nishi