Winding – tensioning – or guiding – Reeling device – Multiple windings
Patent
1997-06-18
1998-07-14
Darling, John P.
Winding, tensioning, or guiding
Reeling device
Multiple windings
B65H 7538
Patent
active
057791759
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
This invention relates to a cording reel device for extendibly winding up a cording including power cords, signalling cords and ear phone cords of various electronic appliances for home and office uses such as telephones, stereo sets, television sets, tape recorders, word processors, personal computers and the like as well as a cording including strings and cords as used with various pieces of equipment other than electric appliances.
BACKGROUND ART
The cording attached to various electronic appliances has heretofore been relatively overlong for the purpose of enhancing the freedom in locating the appliances. When users purchase a cording for their own use as well, they generally tend to buy an overlong cording so that the location of installation of the appliance may be changed later. Consequently, in the condition where electronic appliances are actually installed and used, the floor is flooded with extra lengths of the cording, which may possibly be caught by a man's foot, may interfere with cleaning the floor and are not nice to look at. In addition, where a plurality of electronic appliances are installed closely to each other, the associated cords were sometimes entangled with each other. In view of this, excessive lengths of cording have heretofore been put together and tied with a string.However, such operation is rather cumbersome, and especially in case the locations of the electronic appliances are relatively frequently changed for use, it is troublesome to bundle and tie and untie each time. At any rate, excessive lengths of cording are unsightly even though they are tied together.
It is an object of the invention to provide a cording reel device which overcomes the foregoing problems.
It is another object of the invention to provide a cording reel device which is easy to operate.
It is still another object of the invention to provide a cording reel device which is simple in construction and requires fewer component parts, and which is easy to manufacture and hence may be produced at low costs.
DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION
According to a first aspect of the invention, a first constraint plate is divided by a cording insertion slot into two halves which are integrally connected together by a connecting portion of U-shaped cross section. A pair of reel shaft segments are attached integrally to the first constraint plate on opposite sides of the connecting portion. A second constraint plate is coupled in opposed facing relation with the first constraint plate such that they may be relatively rotated about the reel shaft segments. An annular frame member is interposed between and generally along the outer peripheries of the first and second constraint plates and affixed integrally to the outer periphery of one of the constraint plates. The annular frame member is formed with first and second inlet/outlets for introducing and withdrawing a cording on opposite sides of the connecting portion.
According to a second aspect of the invention, a pair of opposed coupling shaft segments are provided to extend up from the interior surface of a first constraint plate at its center. A pair of reel shaft segments extend up from the interior surface of the first constraint plate outside of the coupling shaft segments, respectively. A second constraint plate is removably and rotatably coupled at its central portion with the free ends of the pair of coupling shaft segments. An annular frame member is interposed between and generally along the outer peripheries of the first and second constraint plates and affixed integrally to the outer periphery of one of the constraint plates. The annular frame member is formed with first and second inlet/outlets for introducing and withdrawing a cording on opposite sides of the coupling shaft segments.
In either of the first and second aspects of the invention, the first inlet/outlet is formed as spanning the first and second constraint plates while the second inlet/outlet is formed as extending from one of the two constraint plates to approximately the mi
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