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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7360572 | Device for cyclical winding of label strips The invention relates to a device for the winding of label strips (17), comprising a rotary driven transport means (1), which cyclically transports the label strip (17) away after removal of the labels and a winding means (2) for the cycl... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7040456 | Elevator car drive and support belt having a twisted orientation An elevator system includes a roller arrangement and a belt for supporting an elevator car. The roller arrangement has two rollers with approximately parallel axes of rotation and structured circumferential surfaces engaging a complementary structured surface of the... | 05/09/2006 |
| 6938850 | Storing method and storing apparatus for elongated plastic deformation member To obtain a storing method for an elongated plastic deformation member in which the elongated plastic deformation member and a liner are overlapped and wound around a reel for storing the elongated plastic deformation member, whereby partial deformation or deformati... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6626394 | Method and device in the process of reeling up a paper web The invention relates to a method and apparatus in a reeling process of a paper web. A paper web (PR) is continuously reeled around a reeling core (10) via a roll assembly (T). A first press device arrangement (8) is arranged to move with respect to the f... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6618896 | Apparatus for cleaning of curved surfaces employing the cloth principle Apparatus for cleaning a curved surface by employing the cloth principle, the apparatus having a roll for unsoiled cloth with unused cleaning cloth thereon, a roll for soiled cloth for taking up used soiled cloth, a pressing element for pulling unsoiled c... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6502783 | Carrier tape recycling apparatus and method of recycling carrier tape A carrier tape recycling apparatus for receiving bare carrier tape from a manufacturing system and for winding the carrier tape onto a plurality of tape reels for reuse. The carrier tape recycling apparatus includes a reel drive mechanism configured to su... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6440268 | High bulk tissue web A partially unwound roll is moved for splicing with a subsequent parent roll, and the united web is rewound. The torque transmitting means include side clamping mechanisms engaging only the end surfaces of the parent rolls. In one aspect, an automated off... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6412730 | Device and method for storing elongated plastically deformable member A device and a method for storing an elongated plastically deformable member are provided in which, even if an elongated plastically deformable member and a liner are stored in a state of being superposed together and wound on a take-up reel, deformation ... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6371402 | Apparatus for winding or unwinding material webs onto or from a winding core An apparatus for winding or unwinding material webs onto or from a winding core (3) has a bearing device (5) and a drive device (9) for driving the winding core (3) that is rotatably mounted in the bearing device (5). The drive device (9) comprises a driv... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6355139 | Processed tissue webs A high bulk tissue web is made by depositing an aqueous suspension of papermaking fibers onto a forming fabric to form a web, drying the web, winding the dried web to form a plurality of large diameter parent rolls wound on a core, and transporting the pa... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6079660 | Gear arrangement for driving the spool core of a take-up spool for the transfer tape of a transfer dispenser In a gear arrangement for driving the spool core (11) of a take-up spool for a transfer tape (5) through the spool core (3) of a feed spool arranged laterally of and radially offset from the take-up spool in the housing (2) of a transfer dispenser or in a... | 06/27/2000 |
| 6030496 | Making a web A method of making a tissue web is disclosed for forming a wet web, drying the web, winding the dried web to form a plurality of parent rolls, unwinding the parent rolls using center drive unwind means, moving the partially unwound roll to effect splicing... | 02/29/2000 |
| 5901918 | Apparatus and method for winding paper An apparatus and method for winding tissue webs into a parent roll is disclosed which results in greater uniformity in sheet basis weight, machine direction stretch and bulk when comparing the corresponding sheet properties taken from representative locat... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5351901 | Hub tensioning device A tensioning device for hubs, comprising a winding shaft having rotatably and drivably mounted on it individual winding elements as hub holder for hubs with inner cylindrical bores, the tensioning device including measures for locking the hubs in the axia... | 10/04/1994 |
| 5330117 | Cassette adaptable tape widning apparatus and assembly A tape cassette winding apparatus that can accept either an audio compact cassette (ACC) or a digital compact cassette (DCC) that has a revolving drive arrangement for rotating the hub or reel of the cassette to load tape into the cassette. The winding ap... | 07/19/1994 |
| 5308006 | Device for winding-up material webs A winding device includes a support roller receiving strips of a material web to be wound up on two coil rollers mounted on respective winding supports flanking the support roller and movable parallel to an axis of the support roller along with respective... | 05/03/1994 |
| 5083719 | Double tire reel spool starter A reel bar drive for use with a web winding system, such as the dry end of a paper making machine has a pair of driving wheels adapted to make driving contact with a peripheral end portion of a reel bar. The driving wheels are mounted on a pivotal platfor... | 01/28/1992 |
| 4962899 | Dual direction transmission device of a video cassette rewinder A dual direction transmission device of a video cassette rewinder includes a pivoting member pivotably mounted on a base of a video cassette rewinder, a motor mounted at one end of the pivoting member. There are three pulleys in which two of the pulleys a... | 10/16/1990 |
| 4898336 | Apparatus for the continuous winding-up or winding-off of substantially flat structures into a package and from a package, respectively A driven winding core member is elevationally displaceable and a supply spool member serves for the delivery or reception, as the case may be, of a winding band which can be wound-up with the flat structures or can be unwound in conjunction with the flat ... | 02/06/1990 |
| 4804152 | Web winding apparatus A web winding apparatus, which comprises a reel including a winding shaft and flanges fixed to the winding shaft; a pair of rollers for driving the reel under frictional drive imparted thereto through the flanges; at least one of the driving rollers havin... | 02/14/1989 |
| 4741487 | Apparatus for winding a continuously arriving imbricated formation of flexible flat structures into a wound product package A winding core and a wound product package to be formed thereon are rotatably mounted on a core bearing or support arrangement. A conveyor defining a product conveying path tangentially delivers the arriving imbricated formation to the winding core or to ... | 05/03/1988 |
| 4736899 | Mobile apparatus for reeling surface type fastener tapes or like elongate strips or flexible material At least one, preferably two or more, reels are coaxially mounted on a carriage such as a handcart for rotation independently of each other in order to wind surface type fastener tapes or like strips to be transported from one processing station to anothe... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4735518 | Ink ribbon cassette An ink ribbon cassette having a multicarbon ribbon for switching from a rapid to a slow multicarbon mode is provided. The cassette includes a coupling element to be driven by a printing device. The coupling element rotates a manually shiftable gear mechan... | 04/05/1988 |
| 4700906 | Paper tape control unit An improved control unit is provided in the form of a compact and relatively simple add-on kit for use with calculators, adding machines and the like requiring use of paper tape in roll form. The paper tape control unit supplies the paper tape to the asso... | 10/20/1987 |
| 4663986 | Device for driving multi-drum coiler or un-coiler A device for driving two winding drum shafts which are rotatably supported by the body of a coiler or un-coiler that acts to wind or unwind rolled material. A casing constituting a ring gear frame is disposed at the center of the body, which is revolved i... | 05/12/1987 |
| 4657196 | Mechanism for supporting and rotating a coil A mechanism for rotating a hollow coil of wound material about its longitudinal axis, the mechanism comprising one or more rollers affixed to a cantilevered support with the mechanism adapted for a telescope fit into the hollow interior of the coil. The r... | 04/14/1987 |
| 4593865 | Winding mandrel for a coil or wound package formed of flexible, substantially flat products, especially printed products The winding mandrel comprises a cylindrical winding drum or body which has two circumferential web members on its inner side. Each web member lies substantially in a plane which lies outside the center of gravity of the winding mandrel together with the c... | 06/10/1986 |
| 4511098 | Film storage device A film storage device, such as may be used for temporarily storing microfilm between a photographing section and a processing section in a unitary photographing/processing apparatus, in which the cut end of the film is prevented from being wound up onto t... | 04/16/1985 |
| 4508523 | Drive means for the shaft of a mobile apparatus The stationary drive station comprises a gear chain guided over three sprocket wheels. One sprocket wheel is driven by a drive motor. A tensioning wheel is rotatably journaled at a pivotably mounted lever acted upon by a tension spring. The tensioning whe... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4466579 | Cassette for rolls of photosensitive material A cassette for winding and unwinding rolls of photographic paper has a rotatable shaft which traverses the cassette. A spool for supporting a roll of photographic paper is mounted on and circumscribes the shaft. The shaft is supported by a pair of opposit... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4434950 | Winding-on device for paper sheets and lengths of textile A device for winding-on sheets of material (3), particularly sheets of paper and lengths of textile, includes a winding-on device and a feed unit (6,8) coupled with the winding-on spindle (4) of the winding-on device through a belt drive (21,22,26), which... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4253617 | Speed governor for a disposable data recorder A speed governor for a disposable spring motor driven data recorder of the type which is used, for example, in a railroad car to graphically record, on a traveling tape, the temperature in the car at all times during a transit period of several days; the ... | 03/03/1981 |
| 4252283 | Electronic thermograph A thermograph adapted to be pre-loaded with chart paper upon which shipping information can be written, and comprising an instrument unit enclosed in an expendable container for automatic operation and security assured by a seal, the instrument being elec... | 02/24/1981 |
| 4228966 | Satellite reel A reel, in particular an intermediate or storage reel for provisionally receiving a variable cable length between a stationary end and a movable end of a cable. The reel is characterized by a stationarily mounted central drum which is fitted with a cable ... | 10/21/1980 |
| 4181270 | Apparatus for winding webs of photographic paper of the like Apparatus for simultaneously winding several webs of developed photographic paper on the cores of reels whose flanges rest on pairs of supporting rollers one of which is driven by a discrete variable-speed motor has a loop former for each web. Each loop f... | 01/01/1980 |
| 4180214 | Cartridge takeup apparatus An improved apparatus for taking up textured yarn plugs into a cartridge is provided. The apparatus comprises a spiral-walled cartridge and means for rotating the cartridge about a vertical axis while moving it laterally. In operation, the cartridge is ro... | 12/25/1979 |
| 4172563 | Shut-off unit in a drive unit for awnings and roller blinds A shut-off unit is disclosed. The shut-off unit is to be used to shut off a drive unit which drives a tubular shaft, the latter shaft being employed, in turn, to wind an awning or a roller blind up and down. More particularly, the drive unit includes an e... | 10/30/1979 |
| 4135676 | Automatic tensioning mechanism for a continuous web A mechanism for taking up the slack in a continuous web being fed to the take up mechanism by independent control means. The take up mechanism is automatically switched on whenever feeding of the continuous web by the independent control means commences. ... | 01/23/1979 |
| 3961760 | Magazine for X-ray film sheets, comprising a rotatable storage drum A magazine for taking up and giving off X-ray film sheets, comprising a storage drum which is rotatable about its axis and two flexible belts which extend tangentially from the storage drum to two auxiliary drums such that film sheets can be wrapped about... | 06/08/1976 |
