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Winding, tensioning, or guiding December patent applications/inventions, industry category 12/09

20090321549 - Controlled magnetic braking of fishing reel spool: An adjustable fishing reel spool brake, the reel having a body, comprising in combination, the spool having a metallic zone that rotates as the spool rotates, a magnetic flux provider carried on the reel body, the provider adjustably movable to vary magnetic flux establishment in the path of rotation of... Agent: William W. Haefliger

20090321550 - Reel lock for passenger restraint having dual locking positions: Disclosed is an improved reel assembly for use in conjunction with an occupant restraint system. The assembly employs a dual locking arrangement whereby an occupant can be restrained during both major and minor incidents. After a major incident, the reel assembly remains locked until the occupant disengages the reel via... Agent: Gray Robinson Attn: Stefan V. Stein/IPDept.

20090321551 - Pivotable positioning roller in the reversing winder: s

20090321552 - Moldable paper product: A paper towel sheet is disclosed which contains a low strength adhesive material strategically applied to selected areas of the sheet. The adhesive areas enable the user to optionally fold and form the sheets into three-dimensional shapes suitable for a variety of new uses, such as making “bowls” for holding... Agent: Kimberly-clark Worldwide, Inc. Tara Pohlkotte

20090321553 - Anti-static core for receiving wound sheet material: A core (2) for receiving wound sheet material, which core (2) comprises a tube (4), a first end member (6) inserted in a first end (8) of the tube (4), and a second end member (10) inserted in a second end (12) of the tube (4), the core (2) being... Agent: Iandiorio Teska & Coleman

20090314869 - Drum for counterbalancing system of a cable-operated door: A drum which receives a cable of a counterbalancing system of a cable-operated door, the cable having an extremity provided with a stopper. The drum includes a substantially cylindrical body, a cable entry groove and a securing slot. The drum further includes an embossment configured about the drum and its... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20090314870 - Carbon fiber package and process for producing the same: It is an object of the present invention to provide a package in an optimal form obtained by winding a carbon fiber bundle having a fineness of 25,000 to 35,000 deniers, which has a high wound density and is less apt to become loose, and a method for producing the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090314871 - Fishing reel: A fishing reel comprises a cylindrical handle shaft that rotatably retains a high-speed driving gear and a low-speed driving gear. Inside the handle shaft, a switching shaft is fitted slidably along the axial direction. The fishing reel includes a switching member inside the handle shaft that is selectively engageable with... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20090314872 - Tension control system for fiber bundles in filament winding apparatus: A filament winding apparatus detects that a fiber bundle is likely to break and prevents generation of defective products. The filament winding apparatus applies a prescribed winding tension to the fiber bundle unwound from a fiber bundle feeding package and winds the tension-applied fiber bundle around a mandrel. A tension... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090314873 - Method for the operation of a coiling device used for coiling or uncoiling a metallic strip, and control device and coiling device therefor: A coiling device (1) for coiling or uncoiling a strip (2), has at least one coiler (5), an optional drive roll (7) associated with the coiler (5), and a control device (10) for the coiler (5) and the optional drive roll (7). The control device (10) operates the coiling device... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20090314874 - Dispenser for products in sheet form: A dispenser for rolls of flexible sheet material, each of the rolls having spindle elements extending axially outwardly beyond the ends thereof, wherein a first roll is located in a dispensing position. Alternatively, a second roll may be located in a reserve position. The dispenser further includes a stub roll... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090314875 - Dispenser for wipe materials: A dispensing device for dispensing wiping material includes a feeding mechanism for controlling the dispensing of the web. The feeding mechanism comprises a rotatable drum with a web guide arranged spaced from and surrounding the drum around a major part of its periphery. The web is fed from a first... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti PC

20090314876 - Reel for use with cable elements: A lightweight cable-dispensing reel assembled from two identical components, each manufactured from a single mold. The reel reduces the number of processes and parts used in the manufacturing process by providing a more efficient one-mold design which eliminates the use of screws, nuts, bolts, or bosses. A pair of identical... Agent: Sand & Sebolt

20090314877 - 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 therearound. A first flange comprising a core portion and an outer... Agent: Pate Pierce & Baird

20090308963 - Foot operated lever-lift vertical reel unroller assembly: A lever lift assembly is provided for lifting a reel of cable, wire or other material off the floor. In one embodiment of the lever lift assembly, a lever assembly is actuated to retract a lifter assembly underneath the reel causing the reel to be lifted on a pair of... Agent: Lathrop & Gage LLP

20090308964 - Pouch package spooler and method of pouch package web management: A spooler for taking up a pouch package web output from a pouch package web source and a method for management of a pouch package web output from said source. In embodiments, the spooler comprises a support structure, a rotatable spindle secured with respect to the support structure, a drive... Agent: Jansson Shupe & Munger Ltd.

20090308965 - Machine, method, and system for severing a web: A machine, system and method for severing a web having a series of containers, wherein the containers are spaced apart and linked together by a series of connectors disposed between the containers. The machine generally includes a rotary device having a plurality of spaced-apart standoff members extending radially outwards to... Agent: Sealed Air Corporation

20090308966 - Dispenser for rolls: A dispenser for rolls of web-shaped material, includes a housing having at its bottom part an outlet opening for the web-shaped material and a space for at least two rolls arranged substantially horizontally. A first part of the space is located adjacent the outlet opening and is intended for a... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090308967 - Multiple attitude low paper sensor mechanism: A method for sensing low paper in a printer includes supporting a paper supply roll via at least one of two paper supports. Each paper support includes a fixed roller rotatable about a fixed roller axis and a movable roller pivotable about the fixed roller axis from a start position... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Research Triangle Park

20090308968 - Push-to-expand mandrel for stretch-wrap hand tool: The present disclosure relates to a dispenser for use with rolls of film material, particularly coreless rolls. The mandrels of the dispenser can move between a retracted position wherein the dispenser has a reduced diameter, such as for when the dispenser is being inserted into a roll of film, and... Agent: Day Pitney LLP Account: Illinois Tool Works Inc.

20090308969 - Fishing line transfer assembly and kit: A fishing line spool support, line guide mechanism, and kit incorporating the same enables users thereof to transfer line from a spool assembly to a reel assembly. The spool support comprises a spool-bearing portion and opposed rails extending in parallel relation to one another away from the spool-bearing portion. A... Agent: Meroni & Meroni, P.C.

20090302143 - Applying whip effect to magnetic tape exhibiting a tape stick condition: As the result of a tape stick condition of magnetic tape with respect to a tape head, the supply reel and the take-up reel apply a base tension to the magnetic tape therebetween of substantially less than a full tension that occurs when the tape is running, and one reel... Agent: John H. Holcombe IBM Corporation,IPLaw Dept.

20090302144 - Strap winder: The present invention is a portable strap roll up device. The strap roller can be moved to any location on a semi-trailer or flat bed truck and mounted quickly and easily to roll up a load securing strap. Once the strap is rolled up, it can be easily slid off... Agent: Dwight G. Diehl

20090302145 - Printing web system: A web system, such as a printing web system, having reduced power consumption is disclosed. Power consumption is reduced by joining the unwind and rewind shafts of the web system together through a continuously variable transmission (CVT). The CVT allows the unwind and rewind rolls to provide torque to each... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090302146 - Rewinding machine, method for producing logs of web material: A rewinding machine including a winding system and a feed path for a web material towards the winding system is described. Positioned along the feed path is at least one air jet severing member to cause severing of the web material after winding of each log has terminated.... Agent: Breiner & Breiner, L.L.C.

20090302147 - Take-up device for long-member and production device for long-member: Automatic taking-up of a long member is enabled to reduce man-hour etc., needed for take-up operation to improve the productivity in the production of the long member. A take-up device (1) for a long member (50) includes a take-up reel (10), rotation driving means that rotates the take-up reel (10),... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090302148 - Organization device for winding a coilable item: An organizing device for supporting a coilable item which includes an elongated rack with a row of notches along the rack for receiving a segment of a loop of a coilable item. An arm may extend transversely from the rack to be engaged by a segment of the lower portion... Agent: Alix Yale & Ristas LLP

20090294564 - Reel and reel manufacturing method: A tape and reel combination and tape and reel combination manufacturing method are provided that can prevent edge-folding occurring to edges of a recording tape that has been wound on a hub. In a reel having a hub on which recording tape is wound, a first flange provided at a... Agent: Moss & Burke, PLLC

20090294565 - Webbing take-up device: A webbing take-up device provided with a clutch disposed between a take-up shaft and a motor, the clutch coupling and releasing coupling of the take-up shaft to the motor. When a gear wheel of the clutch is rotated in a take-up direction by the motor, a friction spring mounted to... Agent: Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole, P.C. Intellectual Property Department

20090294566 - Methods for spiral winding composite fan bypass ducts and other like components: Methods for spiral winding a contoured composite component involving providing a triaxial material, cutting the material to a width, loading the width of material onto a creel, transferring the material from the creel to a tensioning device, and using a traversing screw to spirally wind the material from the tensioning... Agent: General Electric Company

20090294567 - Spiral winding systems for manufacturing composite fan bypass ducts and other like components: Spiral winding systems for manufacturing a contoured composite component including a creel for holding a triaxial material having a width and keeping the material straight to provide uniform overlaps during winding; a tensioning device for receiving the width of material from the creel and providing tension to the material during... Agent: General Electric Company

20090294568 - Modular automatic non-turret winder: An automatic winder for a winding part includes a first spindle that rotates clockwise and a second spindle that rotates counterclockwise. A first grip is associated with the first spindle, and a second grip is associated with the second spindle. A guide mechanism is positioned between the first and second... Agent: Renner Kenner Greive Bobak Taylor & Weber

20090294569 - Double spread-head carousel winder: A carousel coiler with two coilers, which are mounted in a rotatable rotor, are rotatably driven independently of each other, are intended for the successive, continuous winding of metal strip and each have spray heads, which comprise a number of segments that can be moved in a spreading manner, are... Agent: K.f. Ross P.C.

20090294570 - Automatic edge guide: A web winding up or unwinding device adapted for a web-form material coating machine comprises a web roll support, the web roll support comprising a web roll changing device, and a web edge guide device, the web edge guide device comprising a sensor device adapted for determining a shifting of... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20090294571 - Window component stock indexing: A stock supply station for use in a insulated glass unit component production line includes a plurality of rotatable sheet stock coils, an indexing mechanism, and an uncoiling mechanism. The indexing mechanism is coupled to the sheet stock coils for indexing a selected one of the sheet stock coils to... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20090294572 - Expanding-mandrel winder for reel: A winder in which the jaws of the mandrel expand automatically by the weight of the reel, without introducing external energy. The winder has a mandrel of horizontal axis (A) whose jaws are expandable by means of links hinged to the end of a sliding pull rod and connected to... Agent: Davis & Bujold, P.l.l.c.