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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 1981
Filed:
May. 27, 1980
Paul W Miller, Warren, OH (US);
Norman H Fobes, Cortland, OH (US);
Wean United, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Abstract
A reel with an expandable mandrel support device for coiling material such as flat rolled steel strip or strips, the reel mandrel having a gripper mechanism for effectively securing each leading end to the reel mandrel which mechanism has numerous cam action gripper bars that singularly can increase gripping force as the tension in the strip strands clamped by one or more cams is developed by the reel; a positioning wedge assembly for these gripper bars constructed to first position and hold immovable, in an operative position, except for movement due to tension buildup, and secondly to positively and quickly release all gripper bars from the strand ends and hence from the reel mandrel when the coils formed by the reel mandrel are to be removed.