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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:
Aug. 23, 1988
Filed:
Apr. 28, 1987
Applicant:
Inventor:
Wolfgang Kaps, Kaarst, DE;
Assignee:
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, St. Paul, MN (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
242192 ; 242195 ;
Abstract
A drive-out assembly to thread a film wound on a reel or in a coil 2 includes an arm 7 to swing into the cartridge and engage the film with a drive-out roller 8 which drives the film in an unwinding direction to drive the free end over a stripper member 10 urged against the film. The drive for the drive-out roller 8 includes a first drive gear 20 which rotates a driven gear 23 through an intermediate gear 21 to drive a shaft 19 having a drive gear 23 to drive the drive-out roller 8 through other intermediate gears 24, 8'.