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Actor Marlon Brando has four patents, all named "Drumhead tensioning device and method."
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7201343 | Carrier-less patch protection including cassette and separation device The present invention is a laminate media, in the form of a continuous strip of carrier-less, pre-cut plastic patch protections, connected by perforations. The invention further describes both a method for separating the patches from each other by stressing the perf... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7178753 | Thread brake A drum brake (1) having a rotatably journalled drum (2) and means for adjusting the torque applied to the drum (2) has several peripherally-extending take-up slots (4) for filaments (5) with the slots being spaced from each other i... | 02/20/2007 |
| 6978961 | Band sheet coiling tension applying apparatus and endless belts for the band sheet coiling tension applying apparatus, and an endless belt lubricant for the band sheet coiling tension applying apparatus It is an object of this invention to eliminate the necessity of using pulleys which will bring about cost increase, trouble and reduction of service life, and give rise to the positional irregularity of the coil edge. Two sets of endless belts 1 are di... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6708919 | Turning bar assembly for use with a moving web A turning bar assembly rotatably disposed adjacent a web of material moving at an operational speed in a web forming device has a turning bar for changing a direction of the moving web. Moreover, the turning bar is controllably rotated 360 ° against the moving web ... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6419179 | Reel device with cable guiding unit A reel device includes a housing, a spool, a cable guiding unit, and a cable. The housing has a pair of spaced-apart lateral side wall sand a cable winding space formed between the lateral side walls. The cable winding space has a rear opening. The spool ... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6311459 | Device and method for loading film on machines for wrapping products In a device for loading film (3) on machines for wrapping groups of products, there is an area (H) designed to allow the free passage of the film (3) and located between a drive carriage (4) and one end (6a, 7a) of each of the film (3) feed rollers (6, 7)... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6239362 | Device for compensating variations in the length of tensioned cables, with substantially constant traction A device for compensating length variations of tensioned cables, with a substantially constant tension, including a contrast element, which is meant to be interposed between one end of the tensioned cable and an anchoring element and is adapted to generat... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6007014 | Winding machine In a winding machine for the production of at least one coil (10) of a supplied material web, such as in particular a paper web and/or a card web, the material web (12) is guided through a longitudinal cutting device (16) and the partial webs of the longi... | 12/28/1999 |
| 5660348 | Computer controlled filament winding system having tensioning device An apparatus for winding fine filaments onto stationary long rods includes supporting base having control mounting and filament mounting regions. The filament winding region includes first and second parallel bearing rods on which are slidably mounted a f... | 08/26/1997 |
| 5558262 | Plastic bag dispenser A plastic bag dispenser holds a continuous roll of bags, connected by perforated separation lines. The dispenser is provided with a tongue, which the bags are dispensed over, that engages the separation line between the bag at the end of the roll and the ... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5445337 | Tape recorder having integral tension pole and impedance roller A traveling apparatus of a tape recorder uses a tension pole of a tension arm as a rotating shaft, and the tension pole is inserted in an impedance roller to simultaneously control change of tension of a tape, to adjust speed variation of the tape, and to... | 08/29/1995 |
| 5421534 | Apparatus for and method of controlling tension of a filamentary material To regulate the wire tension, a wire tension regulator is disposed on a winding device for electrical coils. A return roller and a contact roller can be mounted on the regulator for prebraking of the winding wire. The winding wire is subsequently wrapped ... | 06/06/1995 |
| 5060881 | Process for the winding of warp beams A process for the continual comparison of the actual-value relationship with the target-value relationship of the wound diameter of a warp beam and the number of revolutions executed by said beam, said values being continually transmitted. There is also p... | 10/29/1991 |
| 5000397 | Cassette for the storage and dispensing of thread or ribbon at a preset tension A cassette for storing and dispensing filamentary material to a machine for producing hollow articles by filament winding includes a housing having an outlet; a spindle supported internally of the housing; a hollow roll rotatably mounted on the spindle; a... | 03/19/1991 |
| 4700905 | Arrangement for tape winding machines for the compensation of a unilateral tape tension An arrangement for tape winding machines for the compensation of a unilateral tape tension of tapes to be wound which can be easily attached to a winding machine or integrated into the same. This is achieved in that the arrangement consists of a compensat... | 10/20/1987 |
| 4667946 | Method of preventing multiple breakage of webs running in rotary press A method of preventing the subsequent breakage of webs running in a rotary press which would be caused by a first broken web. In this method, when a signal of web breakage is received from any one of web breakage sensors which are provided to sense the br... | 05/26/1987 |
| 4484713 | Thread reeling apparatus The thread reeling apparatus includes a rotary cam drum with a traversing thread guide assembly used to guide a thread from a delivery mechanism to a bobbin or thread package. A roller having a smooth, peripheral surface is interposed at a location downst... | 11/27/1984 |
| 4434945 | Winding apparatus An improved winding apparatus for winding wires and the like, which includes a flyer having a passage for passing the wire through it and driven for rotation around a winding form or winding frame for winding the wire onto the winding form, a roller movab... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4403744 | Method and apparatus for controlling strand tension during winding A method and apparatus satisfactorily controls the tension of filamentary material during winding of the material into a layered package. In the method, filamentary strand is conveyed from a source to a rotating contacting means having a drive means to dr... | 09/13/1983 |
| 4379528 | Thread reeling apparatus The thread reeling apparatus includes a rotary cam drum with a traversing thread guide assembly used to guide a thread from a delivery mechanism to a bobbin or thread package. A roller having a smooth, peripheral surface is interposed at a location downst... | 04/12/1983 |
| 4346551 | Method and apparatus for twisting and winding yarns on packages A method and apparatus for obtaining packages for dying by twisting and winding processed yarns by a double twister. Between a double twisting spindle and a take-up roller disposed above, there are arranged a winding angle-adjusting device, a feed roller ... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4342431 | Dispensing unit for sheet and/or ribbon products packaged in reels A reeling display unit for sheet and/or ribbon products has a frame with at least one level receiving the sheet or ribbon in rolls. Each roll rests on a rear brace fixed to the frame and on a movable transverse bar sliding under the weight of the roll or ... | 08/03/1982 |
| 4277032 | Automatic apparatus for continuously forming cloth rolls An automatic apparatus for continuously forming cloth rolls of a selected length from great size rolls or continuous bands made of a number of cloth pieces sewn together, comprises a detecting means such as a photocell responsive to a seam between two adj... | 07/07/1981 |
| 4274604 | Winding machine The winding machine is provided with a tension control means which is adjustable to vary the contact length over which a filament slides on a guide roller before being wound onto a mandrel. The guide roller and associated cam drum can be adjusted simultan... | 06/23/1981 |
| 4128212 | Seam responsive shear and method An apparatus and method in which lengths of web material joined by widthwise seams are guided along a path of travel adjacent a shear, either for decorative shearing or for roll winding. In the instance of decorative shearing, the web material surface is ... | 12/05/1978 |
| 4078738 | Automatic winding machine for rolled towel An automatic winding machine for a rolled towel in which a towel winding shaft and a friction roll are journalled respectively above and below a driving shaft horizontally journalled in an upper part of a machine frame. A horizontal bar is mounted on an a... | 03/14/1978 |
| 3971524 | Device for connecting an expiring first web of a web-shaped material with the beginning of a second web of a web shaped material An apparatus for connecting a first web of a web-shaped material unwinding from a first roll with the beginning of a second web of a web-shaped material unwinding from a second roll. The beginning of the second web is cemented to a transfer element by mea... | 07/27/1976 |
