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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. 20, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 06, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Matthew C. Ahrens, Malta, IL (US);
Assignee:
Rockford Manufacturing Group, Inc., South Beloit, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 4/930 ; B65H 1/910 ; B65H 7/524 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 4/930 ; B65H 1/910 ; B65H 7/524 ;
Abstract
A wire uncoiler for holding coils of wire on mandrels for uncoiling and drawing by a downstream wire drawing machine. The movable restraining arm of each mandrel is biased by a spring mechanism to control wire payoff to the downstream drawing machine. The spring mechanism can be manually adjusted by a crank handle to control the tension in the spring and therefore the amount of restraining force applied by the restraining arm. The manual adjustment can be done while the wire drawing machine is actively drawing wire from the mandrel.