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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7891601 | Tape reel The tape reel of the present invention includes: a cylindrical hub for winding recording tape; and a pair of upper and lower flanges respectively projecting circumferentially from upper and lower portions of the hub. The tape reel further comprises: a lower piece in... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7364113 | Corrugated flanges for spools and reels A flange design providing improved strength, fracture resistance, and the like using corrugations extending substantially radially from an arbor aperture toward a rim portion. A spool or reel may include a tubular member to receive a stranded material wrapped therea... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7350992 | Center-justifying spindle assembly Disclosed are a printer and a stacker and methods. The printer prints selectively on one or both sides of a printable web and sheets or labels are cut from the web and stacked in the stacker. The printer has an unwind mechanism that accepts and holds web rolls of di... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7350463 | Spindle assembly Disclosed are a printer and a stacker and methods. The printer prints selectively on one or both sides of a printable web and sheets or labels are cut from the web and stacked in the stacker. The printer has an unwind mechanism that accepts and holds web rolls of di... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7302155 | Apparatuses having spool assembly for absorbing jumper slack A spool assembly includes a spool supported on a mount. The mount has an adhesive covered by a cover capable of being peeled off from the adhesive. The adhesive is attached to a structure such as a trough or a panel in order to attach the spool to the structure such... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7300220 | Hand-separable ribbon spool assembly A hand-separable ribbon spool shaft assembly adapts a plain ribbon spool so as to provide drive and location functions. The shaft assembly is composed of at least two shaft parts that are assembled to the ribbon spool and cooperate to provide a manual hand-action lo... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7237746 | Spool having reversing spiral guide A winding device includes a barrel defining a primary winding area and an auxiliary winding area. A flange wall separates the primary and auxiliary winding areas. A guide pathway directs a flexible material between the primary and auxiliary winding areas and include... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7229043 | Hanging cable shortener arrangement A cable shortener apparatus for permitting the length adjustment of a cable having a certain incompressable diameter. The cable is arranged for supporting a sign carrier from an overhead support. The cable shortener apparatus may be comprised of a duplicate pair of ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7137587 | Spool for winding optical fiber A spool for winding an optical fiber includes flanges attached to each other using an ultrasonic fusion splicer. The spool has first and second cylindrical barrels, on which the optical fiber is wound. The flanges have a disk shape and protrude radially from the fir... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7132774 | Bobbin, motor, and method of winding magnet wire A bobbin comprises three hollow-cylindrical sections, specifically a middle body section, and two lateral body sections. The middle body section has its diameter diminished compared to the two lateral body sections thus forming an annular recess which allows a magne... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7121501 | Wire spooling system A wire spooling system for spooling and dispensing wire. The wire spooling system includes a first spool member, having a tubular member with a locking cap and first collar, and a second spool member, having an engagement aperture and second collar. The tubular memb... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7066424 | Spool for winding optical fiber A spool for winding an optical fiber includes flanges attached to each other using an ultrasonic fusion splicer. The spool has first and second cylindrical barrels, on which the optical fiber is wound. The flanges have a disk shape and protrude radially from the fir... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7036766 | Reusable collapsible core A reusable core that is suitable for having paper or other sheet material wound thereon. A multi-sectioned core is provided that is easily assembled. Interlocking sections that provide a pivot are held together by a sliding rod assembly inserted therein. One of type... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7017743 | Holiday light storage and carrying device A cylindrical devise for storage and carrying of cords, electrical cords, and decorative lights. The device has a round base and a cylindrical snap lock cover with handle. Within are stackable tiers, stackable upon each other and upon the base without regard to a nu... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6926145 | Electric light strands utility holder This disclosure describes an electric light strand mounting device for simplifying the installation and removal of light strands from, for example, a holiday tree. The device consists of a light strand receiver and an associated base that rests on a floor or horizon... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6857586 | Rolled article, and method of and apparatus for processing rolled article An apparatus for processing a rolled article has a rotary supporting mechanism for rotatably supporting opposite ends of a photosensitive roll, an end drawing mechanism for drawing a sheet end of the photosensitive roll to a prescribed length, a pressing mechanism f... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6736349 | Device for supporting a strip in the wound or spooled condition A device for supporting a strip in the wound or spooled condition, includes two half-hubs each having at least one flange (1A, 2A) made by molding with the half-hub, these half-hubs being assembleable together to form a spool. At least one of the half-... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6676069 | Modular holiday light storage and dispensing system A holiday light storage system, for storing holiday string lights, having a central hub and extension hubs. The central hub has a pair of parallel flange disks and a core extending perpendicularly between the flange disks. The core allows adjustment of th... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6575398 | Reel for embossed carrier tape A pair of flanges (12, 12) which have through-holes (17) for a rotating shaft, and a shaft part which connects the central parts of these flanges (12, 12) at a specified spacing, are formed from cardboard plates; furthermore, the above-mentioned shaft par... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6517023 | Bandage applicator The present invention relates to a sheet material applicator comprising a cylindrical body rotatable within a housing, the housing forming a handle for the applicator, and means at one end of the cylindrical body for mounting a roll of the sheet material ... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6511010 | Optical fiber management installation appliance An apparatus and method for managing excess lengths of installed fiber optic cable. The apparatus is a specially designed routing spool that allows for optic fiber cables to be wrapped in individual slots of suitable radius to provide separation of cables... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6497381 | Christmas light storage device A storage device for storing strings Christmas, holiday or other strings of lights when the strings of lights are not in use. The device has an end having slots therethrough through which one or more of the ends of the string of lights are placed. A cap i... | 12/24/2002 |
| 6474582 | Three-piece tape reel assembly with integrated driving teeth and metal flanges A tape reel assembly (14). The tape reel assembly (14) includes three discrete components. The components include a top flange (40), bottom flange (50) and hub (60). Teeth (65) are operatively connected to the hub (65). The flanges (40, 50) are preferably... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6398154 | Reel having deforming engagement of core to flange A reel for supporting wound flexible media includes a core, a first flange and a second flange. The core has a first pliable end and a second end, the first pliable end defining a first cross-sectional shape. The first flange has an outer section and an i... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6343765 | Two-piece reel structure A two-piece reel structure for taking up an elongated tape, such as a magnetic tape, a film and the like, is provided. The reel includes two similar halves, each of which includes a frustum-shaped central shaft portions. A bottom plane of each frustum is ... | 02/05/2002 |
| 6257780 | Ink ribbon cartridge having one undetachable spool and idle rotation preventing structure An ink ribbon is formed form a belt shaped sheet body, and is wound around a pair of tubes. Spools are detachably mounted at each end of the tube bodies. An ink ribbon cartridge includes side plates formed with supporting openings for supporting correspon... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6199786 | Wire reel assembly and wire reel therefor A wire reel assembly comprises a reel, a reel support and a reel securing assembly. The reel includes a central body and removable sides. The central body is removably mounted to an arm of the reel support thereby allowing one of the removable sides to be... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6182922 | Reassemblable reel and disassembly device A reassemblable reel which can easily be assembled and has a capacity as well as strength sufficient to contain and protect a great quantity of chips or other electronic components when in use and, after use, can easily be disassembled into compact parts ... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6102327 | Mating spool assemblies for relieving stress concentrations A plastic spool for receiving, storing and dispensing wire and cable is formed of multiple pieces. A preferred design is assembled in two halves, each having a tube portion and a flange portion. The tube portions have stepped, mating diameters. The tube p... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6077577 | Compact pressure-sensitive tape core The present invention is directed to a compact tape core upon which a pressure-sensitive tape may be wound. The tape core comprises two rectangular-shaped identical halves which may or may not be joined together permanently at one end with a hinge mechani... | 06/20/2000 |
| 6045087 | Spool assembly for snap fit of flanges and spindle having guiding members for aligning with the flanges spindle A spool assembly comprises a spindle formed as a tubular section having an inner surface and two end faces. A guiding notch is furnished in each end face of the spindle. A locking opening is furnished near each end of the spindle. The spool assembly furth... | 04/04/2000 |
| 6042048 | Core for winding a web of deformable material A core winding a web of deformable material which is thicker along its margins, particularly knurl-edged webs. The core includes a rigid cylindrical member and a deformable cover supported by the rigid member. First and second detachable end members are a... | 03/28/2000 |
| 5975459 | Drum for hose reel carts for watering A drum for hose reel carts for watering comprising a hub, a pair of flanges and a pair of covering discs for the coupling zones between the flanges and the hub. Said hub comprises a plurality of tubular elements provided with coupling elements and said co... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5971317 | Warp resistant molded plastic reel A large, warp resistant, reel is formed of a molded plastic cylindrically shaped hub with disk-like flanges co-axially arranged upon and secured to the opposite ends of the hub The flanges are each formed of a framework of numerous, spaced apart, radially... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5967454 | Twin sheet reel core A winding or storage reel for large, continuous lengths of flexible materials such as cable, rope or paper is collapsible into substantially flat components for recycling transport. The reel core is preferably twin sheet, vacuum formed of thermoplastic sh... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5941477 | Virtually fully engagable stacking reel component A stacking reel component having cooperative locking members which when engaged with the cooperative locking members of a second reel component exert and receive axial forces in forming a reel. The reel component is formed to allow compact stacking with o... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5921499 | Tool for a disposable drum A tool for assembly on a drum to form a rotatable unit, to be placed in journalling equipment for rotation of the unit, is provided. The drum comprises a cylindrical sleeve and two end pieces and is designed to carry a coil of a flexible object, such as c... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5908172 | Spool for fiber optic media A spool for filamentary material such as optical fibers and others consists of two members which are locked together to form a drum with two opposed flanges defining a winding space. The two members may be separated to allow material wound on the drum to ... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5857643 | Core for winding a web of deformable material A core for winding a web of deformable material which is thicker along its margins, particularly knurl-edged webs. The core includes a rigid cylindrical member (24) and a deformable cover (26) supported by the rigid member. First and second detachable end... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5810281 | Spool assembly with slotted tubes A spool assembly upon which can be wound a sheet of material. The spool assembly having at least two tubes, each of the tubes having an annular tube wall with a tube slot along an entire length of the tube wall. The tubes are disposed in opposite ends of ... | 09/22/1998 |
