Winding – tensioning – or guiding – Unwinding – With supply coil replenishment
Patent
1997-04-02
1999-08-17
Walsh, Donald P.
Winding, tensioning, or guiding
Unwinding
With supply coil replenishment
2425591, 2425944, 2425984, 211 156, 211 855, B65H 1900
Patent
active
059381450
ABSTRACT:
A powered carousel for storing spools of wire. The wire carousel comprises an upright support frame having a carousel on the support frame mounting a plurality of carrier frames, each carrier frame has a plurality of removable shafts for mounting spools of wire. Each removable shaft is positively secured by a locking mechanism which positively engages each end of the shaft. This helps prevent a shaft from accidentally coming free from the frame and falling from the carousel possibly causing injury to the individual operating the carousel or to bystanders. To provide for the efficient storage of small spools of wire a removable Ferris wheel is mounted on one or more of the shafts. The Ferris wheel includes a plurality of rods for mounting spools of wire arranged annularly therearound and is mounted for rotation on the shaft. The carrier frames have been improved to further improve access to the spools of wire and to improve the stability of the carrier frames. To do this the connection means for mounting the carrier on the carousel has been positioned below the top of the carrier frame. A bottom member has also been added to each carrier frame to prevent wire from hanging down from the frame and getting snagged on a lower frame, on a shaft on a lower frame, or in the drive chain.
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Battison Adrian D.
Rivera William A.
Thrift Murray E.
Walsh Donald P.
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