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4744696 Cable laying apparatus  
Optical fibre cable laying apparatus comprising a mobile carrier for paying out cable from a reel and laying the cable in a trench formed by a tyne on the carrier. The reel is rotated, to effect...
4741484 Apparatus and method for winding a magnetic core for toroidal transformer  
A toroidal elecrical transformer having a low voltage coil, a high voltage coil and an annular magnetic core is disclosed. The preferred low voltage and high voltage coils are each continuous and...
4738407 Manipulating large sections of artificial turf  
A method of removably covering a smooth, rigid surface such as a floor, with a large section of heavy duty, artificial turf which involves pulling it across the surface while supported on a...
4729522 Web handling apparatus  
An apparatus is provided for handling a web of material fed from a roll. When the roll is larger than a selected amount, a roll contacting belt contacts the outer surface of the roll to aid in...
4728049 Device for laying-out a convolute web of material  
A device is described for laying-out a convolute web of material, in particular a web of textile material, coming from a bale of cloth, said device comprising a frame structure which is adapted to...
4728219 Method of and a device for guiding a wire in the wire bolting of a rock  
A method of and a device for guiding a wire in the wire bolting of a rock, wherein the wire is passed by means of a feeding mechanism from a wire magazine into a guide head supported by a feeding...
4728089 Cloth spreading apparatus  
A cloth spreading apparatus 10 for spreading cloth from a cloth roll 16 supported by an expandable mandrel 20 onto a work surface 14. The apparatus includes a carriage assembly 24 movable on the...
4721265 Electronic toilet tissue dispenser  
The Electronic Toilet Tissue Dispenser permits toilet tissue to be dispensed from a supply roll by placing your hand in front of a sensor and advancement is stopped when your hand is removed from...
4699034 Roll paper handling apparatus  
A roll paper handling device for use in various recording machines, such as facsimiles and copiers, which employ recording paper in the form of a roll is provided. The present device includes a box...
4699304 Metered lever operating mechanism for paper towel dispenser cabinet  
A metered lever operating mechanism for a paper towel dispenser cabinet is disclosed. The operating mechanism has a lever actuator which is mounted in the dispenser cabinet for vertical...
4691503 Housing for holding a supply roll of large round bale wrap material  
A mechanism for enveloping a large round bale with a wrap material such as plastic sheet or net includes a housing for holding a supply roll of such material. The mechanism is mounted to the rear...
4690344 Roll holder  
A roll holder for holding rotatably a roll of consecutive thin-film-like products and paying out a succeeding product up to a given position as the preceding product is cut off along a break line...
4687151 Textile yarn pull-off system  
An apparatus intended particularly for pulling filamentary spooled material, such as yarn, from a spool has a spool holder, receiving the spool, and a flyer arm, preferably rotatably supported...
4685631 Apparatus for feeding bonding wire  
An apparatus is described for maintaining and delivering a slack reserve length of lead wire between a spool or other source and the wire bonding tool of a lead wire bonding machine. A slack...
4681272 Arrangement for positive supply of elastomer filaments in textile machines  
An arrangement for positively supplying elastomer fibers in a textile machine, comprises a device supplying a non-elastic filament fiber, a drive for driving the non-elastic filament fiber...
4676445 Film handling method  
Handling of strip films is improved by providing a method of film handling capable of advancing films wound in either direction. The winding direction of the film is detected, and an air flow is...
4676496 Method and apparatus for supplying printed products to a continuously operating processing line  
One stack space is provided for accommodating each stack of a plurality of stacks of printed products to be supplied to the processing line. Each stack space is provided with a powered feed...
4676443 Yarn dispensing device  
The present invention relates to a dispensing device for yarn which includes a loose skein holding section and a pair of feed rolls having a bite therebetween to move yarn from the skein holding...
4664304 Metering mechanism for paper towel dispenser cabinets  
A metering mechanism for a paper towel dispenser cabinet is disclosed. The metering mechanism includes a metering gear which is rotatably driven by an operating mechanism of the dispenser cabinet....
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...
4662578 Gravity actuated, unidirectional regulated tissue dispensing system  
Described is a mechanical device designed to dispense tissue paper or cloth web by gravity-actuated release gear system. The release gear system is activated by pressing a lever that is connected...
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...
4651938 Elastometric yarn or thread supply apparatus for textile machines, particularly knitting machines  
To permit pull-off of elastomeric yarn from a spool, without subjecting the yarn to tension, the spool (6) with the yarn (17) wound thereon is placed on a pair of horizontally extending...
4643371 Apparatus for unwinding exposed roll films from reels  
Apparatus for unwinding exposed customer roll films from reels immediately upon expulsion of reels from their cartridges has a composite housing which can be opened up at an unwinding station to...
4640469 System for rolling and unrolling a ground cover  
A system for tightly rolling and unrolling a web employed as a ground cover includes the use of unrolling tapes for unrolling the web, and an unpowered gear motor which serves to retard unrolling,...
4634192 Roller towel apparatus  
A roller towel dispenser has two roller towels mounted side-by-side, each of which is automatically brought into operation upon exhaustion of the other. As the end of a towel passes between two...
4632325 Apparatus for unwinding a nonwoven fibrous web from a roll thereof  
Apparatus for unwinding a nonwoven fibrous web from a roll thereof comprises a roll-bearing for supporting said roll on the underside of its periphery and a core-mounting in which the core of said...
4627584 Method and apparatus for feeding a plastic ribbon  
A method of and apparatus for feeding a continuous thin film plastic tape or like, pliable, foldable strip in an oscillatory fashion, which may be random, from a feed surface having a width many...
4611768 Modular paper towel dispenser  
A paper towel dispenser cabinet including a molded plastic back (2), door (9) and mechanism module (3). The back (2) has a rear wall (16), spaced first (18) and second (19) side walls and spaced...
4609161 System and apparatus for storing and processing strip material  
A system and apparatus therefor which stores and processes flexible strip materials and particularly tire manufacturing components such as the tread portion. A portable storage unit has a pair of...
4606533 Machine for converting rolled cloth into sheets  
A machine for laying out flat sheets made from tubular fabric in which a horizontal cross bar is hingedly connected to a supporting frame and is in contact with the fabric being fed, so that...
4597541 Apparatus for unwinding printed products wound up in an imbricated formation  
The printed products leaving the product coil or wound package are delivered to an inlet of a conveying channel adjacent to a product transfer or release location of the wound package. A conveying...
4595192 Method and apparatus for processing substantially flat products, especially printed products, unwound from a storage coil or package  
The printed products unwound from a storage coil or wound package in imbricated product formation are conveyed over two belt conveyors against a stop. According to one embodiment the printed...
4589605 Looping apparatus for coiled material  
A coiled material looping apparatus is provided having a loop guide mechanism which guides the material unwound by the uncoiler mechanism into a spiral loop that spirals or deviates perpendicular...
4587790 Apparatus for the storage of flat products arriving in an imbricated formation, especially printed products  
At a moveable frame there is rotatably mounted a driveable winding core. The one end of a tension-resistant winding band is connected with this winding core, and such winding band is wound-up upon...
4580738 Controlled tension unwinding system  
A supply roll of thin liner material for carrying a strip of resilient plastic material is mounted for rotation with the axis of rotation in a horizontal position. An arm is mounted adjacent the...
4578925 Method of and apparatus for packaging a wall of a bore  
A method of and an apparatus for attaching a sheet of packaging material to a wall of a bore of a coil of metal wherein the sheet of packaging material is fed into and discharged from a mandrel...
4579292 Apparatus for unwinding a roll of blocking-prone web material  
An apparatus for unwinding a roll of web material which is prone to blocking: for example, an elastomeric film which, while rolled, is prone to having the convolutions of the roll stick together....
4573618 Apparatus for unrolling and spreading rolled cloth  
An apparatus for unrolling and spreading a long roll of cloth on a work table in which a servo motor is coupled with wheels of a spreader and for running the spreader on the work table. A servo...
4569467 Dispenser for automatically advancing a length of web  
A lazy-susan type roll table supports, in a vertical position, a roll of place mats interconnected into a continuous web (i.e. each mat is attached to its adjacent mat by perforations and all are...
4566785 Magazine for supplying a strip of photographic printing paper  
An improved detachable or replaceable magazine for supplying a strip of printing paper to a photographic printer or photographic processor is disclosed. The magazine includes a case, a cover...
4557425 Problem-cartridge film processing method  
A method for processing film cartridges, especially for processing cartridges for which it is not possible to extract the leader of the film from the cartridge by an ordinary automatic method. The...
4549700 Apparatus for cropping and inspecting a sheet-metal coil  
An apparatus for cropping and inspecting the end of a coil of sheet metal has a cradle dimensioned and oriented to support the coil with its axis horizontal, a drive for rotating the coil on the...
4545544 Fabric handling apparatus and method  
A fabric handling device and method, particularly useful for light weight, nonwoven web material, including a fast feed roller device in substantial contact with the fabric surface continuously...
4540131 Rolled sheet paying out transfer apparatus  
A rolled sheet paying out transfer apparatus comprises a support frame for supporting a rolled sheet having a liner interposed between turns of the rolled sheets so as to paying out the sheet by...
4535664 Dispenser means for rolled sheet materials  
The invention comprises a light-tight dispenser for rolled sheet materials, such as negative stock, emulsified paper, and like photographic supplies, having nipping rollers for paying-out of the...
4531682 Apparatus for feeding a wire from a coil to a processing station  
Apparatus is described for feeding a wire from a wire coil to a processing tation. When wire is taken from a coil and fed to a processing station, because of the tension imposed on the wire, the...
4530471 Method of and apparatus for dispensing wire from a wire storage spool  
A method of and apparatus for dispensing wire from a massive storage spool make use of a rotary support for holding the storage spool and in bearing contact therewith. The rotary support comprises...
4527320 Apparatus for loading plane film cassettes in daylight  
An apparatus for daylight loading of a plane film cassette having at least one dark slide comprises a housing having an inlet opening through which the plane film cassette is introduced. In the...
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...