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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7905445 | Unwinding device for winding drum An unwinding device for wound rolls includes a bearing element, a first support element and a second support element mounted on the bearing element. The first and second support elements are adapted to rotatably hold the wound roll on opposed sides. The first suppor... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7309042 | Automatic positioning dispenser for paper rolls An automatic positioning dispenser for paper rolls includes (a) a front section of a main housing including a reciprocating paper roll elevator shaft, and a rear section of the main housing including a paper roll storage and feeding mechanism; (b) the elevato... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7066423 | Solid rolls dispenser A dispenser for solid rolls of web material, includes a frame, a cover connectable to the frame, to together with the frame define a volume for storing a roll of web material from which web material can be dispensed, a frame roll support projection, and a cover roll... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7063245 | System for dispensing plurality of wet wipes There is provided a wet wipes dispensing system. The system includes a plurality of separably joined wet wipes and the plurality of separably joined wet wipes include a lubricant. The system also includes a dispenser including a sealed chamber, the sealed chamber ho... | 06/20/2006 |
| 6955320 | Unwinding system for handling reels of tissue An unwinding system for handling reels of tissue, which for each laminar ply of tissue to be applied consists of two reel-carrier units onto which are mounted the respective reels, one of which supplies the laminar band for processing, whilst the other remains on st... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6953172 | Roll changer and process for removing a residual roll from an axle A roll changer for a web-treating or web-processing machine, or a web-fed printing press is provided. The roll changer includes a first roll arm (4) with a first axle journal (8), which can be pivoted about a pivot axis (3), and a second roll ar... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6820835 | Apparatus and method for coupling and driving a reel shaft A device for rotating a web material roll supported on a reel shaft having a pair of ends. The rotating device includes a female drive member coupled to one end of the reel shaft and defining an opening having a non-circular perimeter, such as a square opening. Also... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6729574 | Gripping device for package, in particular for yarn winding machines Device for gripping a package, in particular for yarn winding machines, is constituted by two lateral arms each provided at its free end with a spindle for mounting a tube of a package, movably mounted by their other end on a slide way for support and mounting on a ... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6619204 | Hand-held labeler There is disclosed a hand-held labeler which is easy to load, clean and service. The labeler has a gear driven print head wherein the print head is situated on an upper housing section and the print head is actuated from a lower housing section. The upper... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6616086 | Web infeed for a rotary printing press A rotary beam has mounted thereon a pair of carrier arms for rotatably supporting a roll of web from which the web is fed into the press, and another such arm pair for supporting another such web roll to which the web is to be spliced upon consumption of ... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6533214 | Device to support and drive a winding bar or tube-shaped spindle, in order to roll or unroll bolts of fabric A device to support and drive a winding bar or tube-shaped spindle designed to roll or unroll bolts of material of the type containing a guiding bearing and a guided bearing, each made up of a fixed casing in which a shaft can move axially, having an end ... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6530538 | Winding device for a textile machine that produces cheeses A winding device (24) for a textile machine (1) producing cheeses has a creel (18) for holding a cheese (11) between tube receiving plates (38, 38'), a yarn traversing device (28) comprising a separate drive (31), and a speed-regulatable drive device (27)... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6511014 | Spooling device with a support The spooling device is provided for continuously incoming threads. The device has at least one bobbin holder for receiving several bobbin tubes. The bobbin holder is fixed at one end and has an opposite loading end. The bobbin holder is connected to a bob... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6502781 | Dispenser apparatus and method A method and apparatus for more efficiently and easily dispensing paper products, such as toilet tissue, from commercial wall mounted dispensers. The dispenser may be reloaded, in most instances, in a single operation that requires only one hand. Further,... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6264134 | Apparatus and method for centering a spool or similar object An apparatus and method for centering a film spool or similar object. A quill or object support means arranged on either inboard and outboard ends a frame are used to engage end portions or flanges of the film spool. A pivot member provides translational ... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6082664 | Coreless roll product and adapter Adapters for solid or coreless rolls of material dispensed in a roll dispenser, which may have slots defined on the side walls thereof. The adapters may have a base body with a first side disposable adjacent to the roll and a second side disposable adjace... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6016987 | Winding device for a material web, especially for a reel slitting device Winding device for a material web. The winding device includes holding arms and two pivot pins adapted to receive a winding tube. The pivot pins are positioned on the holding arms to face each other and are positionably adjustable to vary a distance there... | 01/25/2000 |
| 5906333 | Center drive unwind system A center driven unwind system including a pair of horizontally spaced-apart side frames defining the beginning of a path of travel of the web being unwound from a parent roll for processing by a rewinder, a U-shaped arm structure pivotally mounted adjacen... | 05/25/1999 |
| 5875991 | Device for winding up or unwinding elongated flexible articles A device for winding up or unwinding elongated flexible articles comprising two bearings (1) forming a winch, supported on a substantially horizontal surface (7), and means (17) for moving all the bearings (1) towards and away from one another perpendicul... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5860617 | Device for unwinding a web of material A device for unwinding a web of material which is wound in a roll on a winding core is utilized in a roll changer of a printing press. An inner shaft carries a clamping cone and an outer, coaxial shaft carries a torque transmitting element. These two shaf... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5779179 | Manual stretch film applicator and method therefor A stretch film applicator and method therefor for manually wrapping stretch film supplied from a stretch film roll having a core. The stretch film applicator includes a substantially U-shaped handle member interconnecting a first core cap and a second cor... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5486259 | Labeler with adjustable roll mounting means There is disclosed a hand-held labeler for printing and applying labels and for printing tags. The labeler has a keyboard, a display, a scanner, and a battery-containing handle. The labeler is user-friendly and compact. The labeler can be easily loaded wi... | 01/23/1996 |
| 5344089 | Roll support and feed apparatus A machine for feeding rolls of web material to a utilization device that is adapted to draw the web material into the utilization device. The roll machine includes a frame carrying a carriage that supports a pair of arms having respective chucks that are ... | 09/06/1994 |
| 5335870 | Flying paster A flying paster is disclosed that achieves straight across splicing by utilizing web roll core drive technology. Splice calculations are based on input data sensed during preliminary acceleration of the new roll, which is disposed in a splicing position i... | 08/09/1994 |
| 5157948 | Apparatus for winding and conveying knitted fabric for knitting machine An apparatus for winding into a roll a knitted fabric produced in a circular knitting machine and for conveying the roll to the outside of the knitting machine. A knitted fabric hangs below the knitting machine and is wound around a pair of horizontally a... | 10/27/1992 |
| 4976473 | Winding apparatus for sheet-shaped molding material A winding apparatus for sheet-shaped molding material wherein slippage in the width direction can be prevented when the sheet-shaped molding material is wound around a winding core tube, because side plates are detachably mounted on both ends in the axial... | 12/11/1990 |
| 4913367 | Coil width detecting apparatus for coil material feeding unit The present invention is concerned with a technique for measuring the width (l) of a strip uncoiled from a coil material (3) to be fed to a press line, wherein linear displacement of both support shafts (4) on uncoiler mechanisms (1) adapted to support th... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4801109 | Roll core holding device The present invention relates to a roll core holding device equipped with a roll core release mechanism which can facilitate to automatically and certainly release the empty roll core from a rotary printing machine. The roll core holding device for each e... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4790491 | Apparatus for winding up a web section without using a core Apparatus for winding a web section without using a core, the web section including a plurality of transversely extending perforation lines and wherein a torn web section is removed from a continuously supplied web. The apparatus includes two winding stat... | 12/13/1988 |
| 4757953 | Reel support and process for use of same in conjunction with a rotating-rolling printing press In a reel support with devices which preferably are in the form of pins able to be moved in and out, and serve to accommodate at least one reel of paper or the like which is wound on a central shell made of cardboard or the like and from which a strip of ... | 07/19/1988 |
| 4697755 | Rewinder with slitter A strip-like sheet is slit into a plurality of slit sheets by means of cutters. The slit sheets are distributed to a plurality of winding positions and wound on a winding axle to form a sheet roll thereof on the winding axle. A touch roller provided with ... | 10/06/1987 |
| 4676448 | Winding machine for winding and/or unwinding web-like guided materials The winding machine comprises a driving-side stand, an auxiliary-side stand, a support positioned between the driving-side stand and the auxiliary-side stand, and a beam, such as a journal beam containing journals or pins and clamped between the driving-s... | 06/30/1987 |
| 4668326 | Hand-held labeler There is disclosed a hand-held labeler with roll mounting members adapted to mount a label supply roll, together with mechanism to move the roll holding members relatively away from each other to facilitate loading and unloading label supply rolls. The la... | 05/26/1987 |
| 4600162 | Paper towel insert and dispenser A dispenser for rolled material has a pair of opposed support arms each provided with a cylindrical support for insertion within a tube about which the rolled material is scrolled. A tubular support assembly is provided for insertion within one or both cy... | 07/15/1986 |
| 4558830 | Handling unit for reelable cord-like goods and its use in an integrated handling system A handling unit (1) is movable along a transport path (10) and comprises a rotatable reel (5) for coiling/uncoiling of cord-like goods. The reel comprises an axle (8) provided with a coupling element in at least one end, said element being connected to a ... | 12/17/1985 |
| 4540029 | Wire coil production system A wire coil production system is disclosed for winding, tieing and distributing coils fabricated from pre-cut wire segments. Four controllably driven mandrels or reels are mounted in relative quadrature on a rotatable turret which cycles each mandrel thro... | 09/10/1985 |
| 4535947 | Paper towel insert and dispenser A dispenser for rolled material includes a pair of opposed support arms each provided with a cylindrical support for insertion within a tube about which the rolled material is scrolled. A tubular support assembly is provided for insertion within each cyli... | 08/20/1985 |
| 4460135 | Mill roll stand A mill roll stand comprises a stationary frame fixed to the floor, a pair of movable frames so attached to the fixed frame as to move freely in the direction of width of the fixed frame, arms having one end thereof pivotally supported by the movable frame... | 07/17/1984 |
| 4458851 | Mill roll stand A mill roll stand for supporting at least one roll of paper or similar web-like material. The stand has a pair of endless members arranged with a spacing therebetween, at least one pair of bases mounted on the endless members so as to be opposed to each o... | 07/10/1984 |
| 4438554 | Ram drive chuck New and improved ram drive chuck is provided and comprises workpiece driving means which are moveable between an extended position thereof relative to an appropriately positioned workpiece wherein the workpiece driving means are operable to drivingly enga... | 03/27/1984 |