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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 1977
Filed:
Mar. 11, 1976
Applicant:
Inventor:
Harold J Hattersley, Jr, Bricktown, NJ (US);
Assignee:
General Cable Corporation, Greenwich, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H / ; B65H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
242 55 ; 242 / ;
Abstract
This rotational tape accumulator wraps slack tape in spirals during times that the tape is being fed to a machine for making cable or other continuous product. When the trailing end of a tape must be stopped to splice on a new length, the accumulated tape is unwound from the accumulator to maintain a continuous supply. This invention forms two reels of tape spirally wound from the same length of tape with each additional layer supplied to the inside of the reel during accumulation. This arrangement stores long lengths of tape with equipment that is more compact than other forms of tape accumulators.