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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 16, 2011
Ronald G. Axon, Rockton, IL (US);
Douglas J. Birkholz, Madison, WI (US);
Thomas Pearson, Rockford, IL (US);
Jeffrey J. Plummer, Rockford, IL (US);
Ronald G. Axon, Rockton, IL (US);
Douglas J. Birkholz, Madison, WI (US);
Thomas Pearson, Rockford, IL (US);
Jeffrey J. Plummer, Rockford, IL (US);
Textron Innovations Inc., Providence, RI (US);
Abstract
A device for dispensing fish tape includes a pair of outside walls and outer and inner annular walls depending generally perpendicularly from the edges of the outside walls. Intermediate pinch ring walls depend generally perpendicularly from the outside walls and are positioned between the inner and outer walls. A plurality of spaced apart protuberances are provided on the intermediate walls and engage undulations on a hoop of a winding belt mounted within the device. A fish tape is mounted within the device and engages with the winding hoop. Each outside wall has a flat section extending from the outer edge thereof toward the inner edge thereof, and a raised section extending from the flat section to the inner edge.