Winding – tensioning – or guiding – Coil holder or support – Spool or core
Patent
1980-05-28
1982-08-03
Christian, Leonard D.
Winding, tensioning, or guiding
Coil holder or support
Spool or core
242 687, B65H 1904, B65H 3500
Patent
active
043424317
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention relates to a reeling display unit for sheet and/or ribbon products packaged on reels, from which certain lengths of said products must frequently be taken.
Said reeling display unit is especially, but not exclusively, for use by florists.
In order to dress their floral presentations with a generally transparent sheet or film, e.g., of cellulose or polypropylene material, and/or a ribbon, florists must have available an assortment of ribbon of different sizes, styles, and colors, as well as sheets or films of distinct widths.
Therefore, in order to facilitate their choice, this entire assortment must be disposed on a reeling display unit which is as small as possible and enables the easy unrolling and cutting of a certain length of the sheet or ribbon chosen.
In presently known reeling display units, the spools of the reels are always slipped onto axes supported on a frame.
Because of this, each axis can support only one spool, which multiplies the number of axes to be provided and complicates the frame which supports them, failing which the replacement of one spool requires unloading several, which entails a great loss of time.
Whether done with a pair of scissors or with a cursor device, cutting is always done at a certain distance from the spool, if only to facilitate gripping the edge of the product for another cut.
Unfortunately, unless the reeling display unit comprises a counter-roller for lifting the product--which is rather complicated and bulky--this edge falls back over the reels on lower levels and interferes with their display and delivery. On the other hand, upstream from the cursor, with the sheet being free, cutting requires holding the two sides of the end of said sheet in order to obtain a clean cut.
Finally, with known reeling display units, after a certain time in stock, the sheet or ribbon product may have collected dust which may remain on the cut sheet and affect its appearance.
One result contemplated by the invention is a reeling display unit for ribbon or sheet products packaged on reels which will take up a small amount of space, cost little, and nevertheless be provided with effective means for lifting the edge of the product to facilitate grasping it and to prevent it from falling over the reels of products on lower levels.
Another result contemplated by the invention is such a reeling display unit, in which the sheet or ribbon is held at a point upstream from the cutting point in order to enable a clean cut by simply grasping the center of the edge of the sheet or ribbon, and which is also capable of ensuring the cleanliness of the sheet by removing possible dust particles.
Another result of the invention is such a reeling display unit which, although it comprises a series of reels placed side by side over at least one level, enables any of the reels to be replaced without requiring the others to be removed.
To do this, the object of the invention is a reeling display unit of the type described above, particularly characterized in that at each level it comprises two transversal jaws, upstream from the cutting point and located essentially in the same horizontal plane, which hold between them the product, which has previously been inserted between them from bottom to top.
The invention will be best understood using the following description, given by way of non-limitative example and with reference to the attached drawings, which represent:
FIG. 1 a radial cross-section of the reels supported on two different levels of the reeling display unit;
FIG. 2 a cross-section along II--II of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 a cross-section along III--III of FIG. 1.
The display includes a frame which consists, for example, of uprights 1, beams 2, and braces 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, formed from assembled tubular sections.
Without departing from the scope of the invention, reels 9, 10 of product 11, 12 may be supported or suspended.
The ribbon reels are preferentially supported, in order not to multiply the suspension means reserved for products in large sheets.
In the supported reel version, the latter,
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