Winding – tensioning – or guiding – Reeling device – With particular frame or frame carrier
Reexamination Certificate
1999-10-14
2001-06-05
Jillions, John M. (Department: 3653)
Winding, tensioning, or guiding
Reeling device
With particular frame or frame carrier
C242S588200
Reexamination Certificate
active
06241176
ABSTRACT:
TECHNICAL FIELD
A reel mountable on a pole for unwinding or winding outdoor light strings onto or off from trees, bushes, buildings, and other objects.
BACKGROUND
Although millions of Christmas light strings are arrayed on trees, bushes, and many other support structures for outdoor display during the Christmas season, reels and poles for managing the unwinding and winding up of light strings remain less than satisfactory. Often, light strings become tangled when unwound and are manually positioned, usually with the aid of ladders. Winding the light strings back up again to take down an outdoor display is also inconvenient and time consuming with presently available tools.
The aim of this invention is a convenient, efficient, and labor-saving pole and reel combination that can speed up and make more pleasurable the process of positioning light strings in place and later removing them.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The inventive combination of a reel and pole for light strings provides respectively mating male and female threads at opposite ends of both a reel and a pole so that these can be screwed together in two different orientations. The orientation to be used is selected so that rotation of the pole for unwinding a light string tends to tighten the threaded connection between the pole and the reel, and an opposite orientation involving rotation of the pole for winding up a light string also tightens the threaded connection between the pole and the reel. With such an arrangement, a pair of reels can be threaded to each other and to a pole and pole extensions can be threaded to each other to increase the reach of the tool.
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Eugene Stephens & Associates
Jillions John M.
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