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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:
Nov. 15, 1977
Filed:
Mar. 16, 1976
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gaston Denoor, Grenoble, FR;
Georges Thillet, Grenoble, FR;
Assignee:
B.V.S., Grenoble, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B21F / ; B65H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
242-722 ; 57 10 ; 57 15 ;
Abstract
Apparatus for winding at least one strip of an elongate product, such as a wire or ribbon, on to a cylindrical body from a spool of the product comprising means for producing relative rotation of the spool around the cylindrical body, a main drive unit for driving the rotation producing apparatus and connected to the axle of the spool through a differential driven by a secondary drive unit for braking the spool to tension said product. The secondary drive unit may be controlled by the output of a tension sensing mechanism sensing the tension of the product.