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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7384013 | Cord retriever A structural innovation of cord retriever, a structural design for multiple-step control of pulling length of a cord, to achieve the purpose of making adjustment of a cord length as required by the user and fast and smooth retrieving thereof. ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7222811 | Positioning device of a dual direction cable reel A positioning device of a dual direction cable reel is disclosed. The cable reel comprises a top cover, a pad, a reeling disc top cover, a reeling disc, a lead wire, a spring, a bottom cover and positioning member, characterized in that the reeling disc and the posi... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7182286 | Cable winder apparatus A cable winder apparatus includes a casing, a winding tray, a spiral spring, a cable set, and a clamping unit. The casing has an accommodating space defined therein, a shaft in the accommodating space and two cutouts on two ends of the casing. The winding tray is pi... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7147177 | Cable reel A cable reel having a one-way locking mechanism for locking a cable winding hub in one direction so that the user can adjust the extending status of the cables freely, and a button for unlocking the one-way locking mechanism for enabling the cable winding hub to rec... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7007882 | Retractable badge reel with billboard display A retractable badge reel with a billboard designed to display a logo, such that unadorned badge reels can be manufactured separately from the billboards that contain the logos. The billboard is optionally removable, allowing the logo being displayed to be changed wi... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6997410 | Positioning device for a reel A positioning device for a reel is disclosed. The positioning device contains a spring-loaded reeling disc, wherein when the cable or wire is pulled to rotate for a half round, a positioning mechanism is made. A button is used to control either a single step or mult... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6834820 | Wire winding device having coaxial and multiple wheels A wire winding device having coaxial and multiple wheels include characteristics of: a main wheel formed with at least three A, B and C turning wheels having a same center orifice flexibly connected to an axis, A, B and C storage grooves formed on the wheel surfaces... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6511009 | Fiber optic cable spool A cable storage apparatus including a spool for holding cable. The spool having an S shaped cable pathway for connecting a first circumferential cable pathway with a second circumferential cable pathway. In one embodiment, the spool includes an S shaped g... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6349893 | Retractable fiber slack storage device The fiber slack storage device of the present invention for storing a slack length of a fiber optic strand comprises a spool comprising a pair of diametrically-opposed cylindrical barrels, and a cylindrical housing for at least partially enclosing the spo... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6315231 | Micro-type communication wire winder A micro-type communication wire winder includes a housing, a rotary disk, a buckling piece, a communication wire and a spiral spring. The rotary disk is pivotally installed in the receiving groove of the housing and one surface thereof is installed with a... | 11/13/2001 |
| 5881963 | Strap retractor A new strap retractor for securing an extra length of the strap to prevent snagging. The inventive device includes a cylindrical housing having an open upper end, a closed bottom end, and a cylindrical side wall therebetween. The cylindrical side wall has... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5114091 | Dual reel cord take-up device A dual take-up reel device (10) is disclosed which includes a dual reel spool assembly (27) having a pair of winding hubs (29) axially secured together and separated by a main spool disc (28). An arcuate cord slot (31) is provided in main spool disc (28) ... | 05/19/1992 |
| 4646987 | Take-up reel for tape containing conductors A tape containing communication conductors, such as telephone wires, or conductors for other purposes, is connected at mid-length to the hub of a spring operated takeup reel so that the reel winds in the opposite end portions of the tape one on top of eac... | 03/03/1987 |
| 4417703 | Quick retrieve cord reel A mobile cord reel which incorporates a rotatably mounted axle having the cord passing diagonally diametrically therethrough, to serve as a device to permit quick spooling of a cord from two directions into a reel located in the midst of the cord.... | 11/29/1983 |
| 4176808 | Passenger restraining seat belt retractor A seat belt retractor of the type for winding up two restraining seat belts on a single retractor shaft one over the other including a base, a retractor shaft rotatably supported by the base for winding up the two seat belts during retraction, a means for... | 12/04/1979 |
| 4165053 | Cable drum for automatic rewinding of a cable A cable drum for the automatic rewinding of a cable in which two separate winding areas are located on a shaft loaded with the force of a restoring spring. The cable is fixed by a slot in the winding areas in a disc-shaped separating wall which is common ... | 08/21/1979 |
| 4107804 | Wave motion isolator between buoy and cable-suspended instrumentation package A wave motion isolator for use in suspending a submersible instrument package from a surface buoy by a cable payed out from a pack attached to the instrumentation package. The isolator is comprised of a spring-powered spool which turns on an axle rigidly ... | 08/22/1978 |
