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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 1991
Filed:
Nov. 27, 1989
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jean-Noel Ballet, Aillevilliers, FR;
Assignee:
Ecia-Equipements et Composants pour l'Industrie Automobile, Audincourt, FR;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H / ; F03G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
242107 ; 185 45 ;
Abstract
The barrel, which consists, inter alia, of a casing (10) defining a chamber (100), of a coverplate (20) with an orifice (21), of a hub (30) and of a spiral spring (40), comprises a device (50) for temporarily immobilizing the hub (30) in this chamber (100) which consists of male (51) and female (52) complementary elements which are intended to be engaged in each other and are carried by the base (11) of the casing and the hub (30), where these male elements (51) are fragile and are intended to break as a result of the action exerted upon the hub (30) through the orifice (21), once the spring has been tensioned.