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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2001
Filed:
May. 06, 1999
Stan H. McClosky, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Fanuc Robotics North America, Inc., Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Abstract
A take-up device for automatically taking-up slack in a control cable. The take-up device includes a cable mount mounted to one end of a control cable. A compression spring engages the cable mount and continuously biases the cable mount to a slack take-up position to tension the control cable. In the preferred embodiment, the cable mount is biased so that one end of the control cable moves toward the other end of the control cable in order tension the control cable. A threaded tube engages the cable mount to retain the cable mount in the slack take-up position. The take-up device is characterized by a torsion spring automatically moving the threaded tube into engagement with the cable mount as the compression spring biases the cable mount to the slack take-up position thereby automatically preventing the cable mount from returning to a slackened position.