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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 1999
Filed:
Jul. 24, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Curtis Paul Gonzales, Boise, ID (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H / ; G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
242358 ; 242346 ; 2425484 ; 2261964 ;
Abstract
An air dam (35) is place between free tape (13) extending to a reel (11) and the reel (11). During high speed winding operations, the air dam (35) interrupts air flow toward the convergence (17) of the free tape (13) with the reel (11). This reduces a tendency for air entrainment in tape (15) packed on the reel (11) during the high speed winding operations.