Winding – tensioning – or guiding – Unwinding – Mobile unwinding station
Reexamination Certificate
2007-06-21
2008-12-09
Rivera, William A (Department: 3654)
Winding, tensioning, or guiding
Unwinding
Mobile unwinding station
Reexamination Certificate
active
07461809
ABSTRACT:
A mobile wire dispensing apparatus for carrying and moving spools of wire to desired locations. The mobile wire dispensing apparatus includes a conventional hand truck having a longitudinally extending frame with wheels at one end and a handle at the other end, and a foot plate at the wheeled end projecting at a right angle to the frame. The hand truck is converted to a wire dispensing apparatus with a kit which includes upper and lower V-shaped frames having an apex and two legs diverging from the apex to distal ends, whereby the distal ends of the V-shaped frames are securable to the frame of the hand truck at spaced locations with the V-frames being aligned and the lower V-shaped frame engaging the inside of the footplate. A hub socket is provided on the apex of the lower V-shaped frame and protrudes upwardly towards the apex of the upper V-shaped frame to receive a wire spool core end over the hub. A shaft is dimensioned to span between the two apexes of the V-shaped frames and is received at the bottom end into the hub socket after passing through at least one wire spool, and then the upper end of the shaft is secured to the apex of the V-shaped frame. Through shaft eye sleeves may also be provided on each leg of the V-shaped frames intermediate their apexes and distal ends and are aligned for thereby slidably receiving therein a parallel pair of spool shafts with bottom ends of the spool shafts engaging the footplate of the hand truck as a stop. This latter arrangement permits the mounting of multiple smaller wire spools instead of using a single shaft for the larger heavier spools.
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Rivera William A
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