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Class Number: 242 Class Title: WINDING AND REELING Subclass Subclass Number Title 1 MISCELLANEOUS 1.1 R STATOR WINDING 1.1 A .Continuous shuttle type 1.1 E .Guide and end turn shapers 2 BALL OR MASS WINDING 3 SPHEROIDS 4 R RING WINDING 5 .Armatures 6 .Taping and insulating 4 A .Flexible shuttle 4 B .Rigid circular shuttle 4 BE ..With eccentric coil 4 C .Core holder 7.01 COMPOSITE OBJECT MAKING 7.02 .Method 7.03 ..Electrical conductor or armature 7.04 .Circumferentially wound armature 7.0 5R .Transverse slot wound armature 7.0 5A ..Rotatable armature core type 7.0 5B ..Rotatable shuttle type 7.0 5C ..Compound movement type 7.06 .Electrical conductor 7.07 ..Electromagnet or electrical coil 7.08 ...Including taping or insulating 7.09 ...Sequential windings 7.11 ...Simultaneous windings 7.12 ...Windings control responsive to electric property or work 7.13 ...Having planar winding turn increment 7.14 ...Apparatus includes driven, shiftably related core support and guide members 7.15 ....Drive for rotating core and traversing guide 7.16 .....Adjustably preselectable winding step 7.17 ..Electrical connector or terminal making machine 7.18 ...Including support for winding material supply holder 7.19 .Localized winding 7.21 .Hollow object 7.22 ..Pail or pipe 7.23 ..Taped 16 SPOOLERS 17 .Multiple 18 R BOBBIN AND COP WINDING 18.1 .Ribbon breakers (i.e., means to prevent coil crowding) 19 .Cutting devices 20 .Sew machine shuttles 21 ..Cutting devices 22 ..Stops 23 ..Disk type 24 ..Thread pressers and pads 25 R .Wire 25 A ..Alternate or successive wind 26 .Symmetrical layerss 26.1 .Building mechanism (e.g., ring-rail type) 26.2 ..Warp wind (i.e., full-traverse mechanism) 26.3 ...Means to vary traverse mechanism 26.4 ..Weft wind (i.e., short-traverse mechanism) 26.41 ...Preliminary or bunch winders 26.42 ....By auxiliary cam means 26.43 ....By traverse-controlling means 26.44 .....With means to control gain mechanism 26.45 ...Means to vary service traverse and/or gain 26.5 .Full traverse mechanism shifted in one direction 27 .Cone wind 27.1 ..Preliminary or bunch winders 28 ..Detectors and stops 29 ...Thread break or exhaust 30 ...Load 31 ..Quick traverse 32 ..Multiple 34 ..Pressers and shapers 35 ..Spindles and appurtenances 35.5 R .Multiple 35.5 A ..Removing full and supplying empty bobbins 35.5 T ..Turret type 35.6 R .Reserve thread uniting 35.6 E ..End finder 36 .Detectors and stops 37 R ..Thread break or exhaust 38 ...Doubling machines 37 A ...Knotter 39 ..Load 40 ...Doubling machines 41 .Ejectors 42 .Doubling machines 43 R .Quick traverse 43.1 ..By means to vary traverse mechanism 43.2 ..By drum guide means 43 A ..Counter rotating fingers 43 B ..Air jets 43 M ..Magnetic 45 .Tension devices 46 .Spool and bobbin lifters 46.2 .Driving connections 46.21 ..Modified bobbin or cop 46.3 ..Cop tube 46.4 ..Clutch 46.5 ...Centrifugal 46.6 ..Resilient head 46.7 ..Resilient socket 46.8 ...Coil spring 18 A .Alternate, successive dual wind 18 B .Anti-bounce 18 G .Glass winding 18 CS .Change speed 18 AA .Air actuation 18 DD .Drum drive 18 EW .End wind 18 PW .Preliminary wind 47 CORDAGE 47.01 .Unidirectionally moving coilss 47.02 ..With seal for coil support means 47.03 ..With threading means 47.04 ..Interdigitated composite rotating surface 47.05 ...Rigid cages 47.06 ...Elements pivot on axis parallel to rotating axis 47.07 ...Independent radially moving elements 47.08 ..Plural drums 47.09 ...Single run contacting 47.1 ....Planetating 47.11 .....Helically grooved drum 47.12 ..With lateral material-traverser 47.13 ...Axially moving element 47.5 .Storage on sheaves 48 .Cutting devices 49 .Detectors and stops 50 .Cards, boards and forms 51 .Heddle and seine needles 52 .Tatting shuttles 53 .Hank and skein winding 54 R REELING AND UNREELING 54.1 .Magnetic wire recorders only 54.4 .Slivers or rovings 55 .Fabrics (i.e., web-like material) 55.01 ..Storage on sheaves 55.1 ..Fibrous webs 179 ..Web carrying machine-convertible information 55.16 ...Folded part of web wound into spiral coil 55.17 ...Unidirectionally moving coil(s) for winding and unwinding 55.18 ....Unwinding from center 55.19 R .....While winding onto outside 55.19 A ......Endless tape cartridge 55.21 ....Winding into center 180 ...Including support for additional webroll or roll holder 181 ....And transfer means therefor 182 ...Including low inertia bin or vacuum chamber 183 ....Loop condition responsive operation control 184 .....By electrical summing or comparison means 185 .....By pneumatic condition sensing 186 ...Web condition responsive operation control 187 ....By shift of convolution-engaging member 188 ....By sensing of differentiated web portion 189 ....By web-induced shift of tension or guide member 190 .....To control electrical operation 191 ....Responsive to web-pull-induced reel velocity 192 ...Convolution-engaging drive for web-roll or reel 193 ...Coaxial reel-pair 194 ....Including cartridge 195 ...Including leader discrimination 196 ...Variable ratio reel drive 197 ...Including cartridge 198 ....Dissembly disabled reel or assembly initiated operation 199 ....Which encloses reel-pair 200 .....With simultaneous or alternative reel drive coupling 201 ...Plural or alternative reel drive 202 ....Simultaneously operative 203 .....Including drive motor for each reel 204 ....Including synchronized brakee 205 ....Cinematic 206 ...Reel drive for association with linear drive 207 ....Continuously controlled for accommodation to linear web advance 208 ....Including operation coordinating means 209 ...With linear drive 210 ...Component for association with linear drive 55.2 ..Delivery-roll holders (e.g., dispensers) 55.3 ...Multiple roll 55.42 ....Vertical axis of rolls 55.53 ...With container 55.54 ...Vertical axis of roll 55.55 ...With deodorant-containing mandrel 56 R ..Cutting devices 56.1 ...And single wind-up reel for plural webs (e.g., condenser winders) 56.2 ...Longitudinal severing 56.3 ....Positionally related tool and wound-package surface 56.4 ....And severed-fabric separating 56.5 .....By deflecting means 56.6 ....And transverse cutter 56.7 ....With slitter drive means 56.8 ...Perforator or notcher 56 A ...Turret type 56 B ...Transverse cut on reel 56.9 ..Multiple reel-simultaneous operation 57 ..Detectors and/or stops 57.1 ...With means to shift web roll axially (i.e., web registry) 58 ..Web roll supply (e.g., plural-roll support for reverse-web storage) 58.1 ...Web uniting 58.2 ....New roll moved 58.3 ....Expiring web moved 58.4 ....New web end moved 58.5 ....Splice preparing means 58.6 ...Conveying roll to position 59 ..Lapped or butted lengths of sheet-length material 60 ..Bandage rolling 61 ..Cards, boards and forms 62 ..Cloth (i.e., special for textile material) 63 ..Automatically contracting reel 64 ..Revoluble reel carriers 65 ..Friction-drum drive 66 ...Multiple drum 67 ..Belt reels 67.1 R ..Winding machines 67.2 ...With feeding rolls 67.3 R ...With supply roll or rolls 67.3 F ....Fabric stretcher 67.4 ...With reversing means 67.5 ...With diameter compensation 67.1 D ...Drawing boards and tables 68 ..Supporters and holders 68.1 ...Driving stubs for cores 68.2 ....Contractile stubs 68.3 ...Core and single stub 68.4 ...Core and opposed stubs or socketss 68.5 ...Cores 68.6 ....Means to reinforce end(s) 68.7 ...Peripheral roll-supports 71 ...For camera spool(s) 71.1 ....Within magazine 71.2 .....Double spoon 71.3 ....Winding keys 71.4 ....Rapid winders 71.5 .....Automatic 71.6 ....Rewinding feature 71.7 ....Daylight film holders 71.8 ...Special for strip material (e.g., spools for flange(s)) 71.9 ....Adjustable heads (i.e., axially positionable flanges) 72 R ...Contractile or expansible 72.1 ....Axially slidable cam 73 ....Lengthwise of spool 72 B ....With inflatable means 73.5 ...Intermediate roll support (e.g., for awnings) 74 ..Web fasteners (i.e., means to attach web to spool) 74.1 ...Releasable clamp 74.2 ....Spring-urged 75 ..Tension devices 75.1 ...Belt or roller driven reel 75.2 ...Drag on running web 75.3 ...Slack tensioner 75.4 ...Supply roll brake 75.41 ....Peripheral strap or belt 75.42 .....Tension controlled 75.43 ....Tension controlled 75.44 .....Electrical control 75.45 ....Diameter controlled 75.46 ....Weight controlled 75.47 ....Revolutions or speed controlled 75.5 ...Speed and/or torque control of reel 75.51 ....Electrical control means 75.52 .....Photoelectric 75.53 ....Hydraulic control means 76 ..Guards and guides 223 .Fishing rod reel 224 ..Spinning reel (i.e., axial unwinding) 225 ...Motor driven 226 ....Spring motor 227 ...Spool rotatable to wind 228 ....With guide shiftable between wind and unwind positions 229 ....Spool pivotal between wind and unwind positions 230 ...With winding guide on rotor rearward of spool 231 ....Guide shiftable on rotor 232 .....Guide shifted to wind position by rotor drive 233 ......Guide shifted to unwind position by discrete manual operator 234 ...With winding guid on rotor forward of spool 235 ....Rotor drive shifts guide to unwind and wind positions 236 ....With manual actuator to shift guide to unwind position 237 .....Actuator forward of rotor 238 .....With line snubber shifted by remote actuator 239 ......Rotor and snubber shifted axially 240 .......Guide shifted radially 241 ...With level-winding mechanismm 242 ....Eccentric cam reciprocates spool 243 ...With brake 244 ....Continuously applied 245 .....Between spool shaft and frame 246 .....Between spool and spool shaft 247 ....Positive 248 .....Defines home position of reel part 249 ..With drive mechanism 250 ...Motor driven 251 ....Spring motor 252 .....Motor actuated in response to pull on line 253 .....With independent manual drive 254 .....With spring charger 255 ...Multiple drive ratios 256 ...Ratchet-type drive 257 ...With disengageable positive drive components (e.g., a clutch) 258 ....With alternative yieldable mechanism 259 ....Axially engaged 260 .....Coaxial of spool 261 ......Reengageable responsive to drive rotation 262 ....Reengageable responsive to drive rotation 263 ....Gear pair 264 ...With yieldable drive coupling (e.g., friction or fluid clutch) 265 ....Variable by crank manipulation 266 .....Variable within distinct range(s) 267 ....Between drive shaft and crank 268 ....Between drive shaft and gear 269 ....Coaxial with line take-up 270 .....Axially applied 271 ......By center pin 272 ...With feed roller 273 ...With level winding 274 ....Line shifts along rotatable cam bar 275 ....Line traction guide wheel 276 ....Manually shifted guide 277 ....Drive mechanism oscillates guide 278 ....Drive mechanism reciprocates guide 279 .....Reversely threaded screw 280 ......Guide shiftable between wind and unwind positions 281 ......Guide has line removal opening 282 ...Alternative right or left side drive 283 ...Hand crank feature 284 ....Collapsible or extensible 285 ..With brake 286 ...Unwinding speed regulator (e.g., anti-backlash brake) 287 ....Line tension responsive actuator 288 ....Magnetic 289 ....Centrifugal 290 ...Spool bearing brake 291 ...Manual pressure control 292 ....Radially applied 293 .....Rolling contact 294 .....Separable attachment 295 ...Connected to spool by one-way clutch 296 ...Adjustable pressure pawl (e.g., braking clicker) 297 ...Positivee 298 ....One-way 299 ....With disabler 300 .....Rotation responsive 301 ...Radially engaged 302 ...Axially engaged 303 ....Coaxial with spool 304 ....On adjustable lever 305 ..With unwinding indicator (e.g., bell or flashing light) 306 ...Clicking indicator (e.g., flexible pawl and toothed member) 307 ...Spring biased pawl 308 ....Plural spring sections 309 ..With line unwinding limiter 310 ..Frame or static component 311 ...Spinning reel frame 312 ...Frame disassembly feature 313 ....Hinged frame section 314 ....Rotated joint 315 .....Threaded 316 ...Reel support (e.g., reel foot) 317 ...Stub shaft support (e.g., fly casting reel) 318 ....With spool retainer feature 319 ...With line or water shield 320 ...With lubrication feature 321 ...With bearing feature 322 ..Spool or spool shaft feature 323 ..Reel attachment 77 .Reels 77.1 ..Made for spaced turns of material 77.2 ..Wire fabricated 77.3 ..Sheet material fabricated 77.4 ...Bolt connections 78 ..Metal working 78.1 ...Sheet metal coiling 78.3 ....Blockers (i.e., means to attach strip to core) 78.6 ....Uncoilers 78.7 .....Cradle type (e.g., peripherally supported coil) 78.8 .....With free-end grasping and/or inserting 79 ...Coil conveying 80 ...Multiple 81 ...Coil strippings 82 ...Revoluble-coiler 83 ...Receptacle 84 ...Retractile arm 84.8 ..Tape measure type (i.e., springless) 85 ..Carriers 85.1 ...Nonrotatable strand-carrier 86 ...Hose 86.1 ....Double strand 86.2 ....Wheel-supported 86.3 .....Traction-driven 86.4 ....Trundle (e.g., flange-wheel) 86.5 R ...Vehicle-mounted 86.51 ....Mine locomotive type 86.52 ....For web material 86.6 ....Traction-driven 86.61 .....With traverse guide 86.62 ......Manual or line 86.63 .......With brakee 86.64 .....With brake 86.7 ....With brake 86.8 ....With manual or line traverse guide 86.5 A ....Water skiing reels 94 ...Trundle reels (e.g., flange-wheel) 95 ...Wheel-attached (i.e., secured to vehicle wheel) 96 ...Hand or body 99 ...Brakes 100 ..Clothesline type 100.1 ...Double strand 100.2 ...Weight-actuated rewind 103 ..Nailing or stapling machine type 104 ..Line driers 105 ..Box strap 106 ..Bracket supported 107 ..Spring-drum type 107.1 ...Double strand 107.11 ....Strand supported 107.12 .....With releasable lock against return bias 107.13 ....Parallel strand 107.14 .....Vertical axis of drum 107.15 ......With brake 107.2 ...With strand engaging stop 107.3 ...With brake 107.4 R ...With unwinding lock 107.4 A ....Vehicle motion sensitive inertia mass 107.4 B ....Reel acceleration sensitive 107.4 C ....Reel body movement 107.4 D ....Rewinding responsive 107.4 E ....Time delay 107.5 ...With spring adjustment 107.6 ...With lock against return bias 107.7 ....With release (e.g., window shade type) 110 ..Contractile (i.e., radially adjustable reel) 110.1 ...Multi-part, with common actuator 110.2 ....Axial link actuator 110.3 ...Radially slidable, independently 115 ..Knockdown or collapsible 116 ..Separable disks or heads 54 A .Antenna reel 117 WINDING DRUMS AND SAND REELS (I.E., DRUM STRUCTURE, PER SE) 118 BOBBINS AND SPOOLS (I.E., PER SE) 118.1 .Open-work structure 118.11 ..Resilient 118.2 .Resilient 118.3 .Cop-tube type (i.e., headless or single-headed tube) 118.31 ..Reinforcing feature 118.32 ..Tube material feature 118.4 .Double-headed spool 118.41 ..Plural spools axially connected 118.5 ..Head(s) adjustable along axis 118.6 ..Head connections (e.g., bolted) 118.61 ...Inserted head joint 118.62 ....Screw connection(s) 118.7 ..Spool material feature 118.8 ...Sheet stock 125 .Thread fasteners and guides 125.1 ..Strand end attacherss 125.2 ...Outer end 125.3 ....Permits unwinding 127 SKIEN HOLDERS 128 UNWINDING DEVICES 129 COIL HOLDERS (E.G., HOLDER FOR ROLL OF WIRE) 129.1 TAKE-UPS 129.2 .Lever type 129.3 .Rewind type 129.4 .Counterweight type 129.5 SUPPORTERS FOR STRAND MATERIAL HOLDERS 129.51 .Opposed stub-shafts 129.53 ..With guide(s) 129.6 .Shaft supported at both ends 129.62 ..With guide(s) 129.7 .With axial-position retainer for holder 129.71 ..With retainer-spindle 129.72 ..With guide(s) 129.8 .With brake for holder and/or strand 130 .For bobbins (i.e., commercial-type strand packages) 130.1 ..With spindle modified for conical bobbin 130.2 ..Vertically suspended spindle 130.3 ..Pinboards (i.e., bobbin-storage trays) 130.4 ..Skewer 131 ..Creels 131.1 ...Warp type 132 ..Receptacle or trough 134 .For spools (i.e., domestic-type strand packages) 136 ..Carrier attachments 137 ..Receptacles 137.1 ...With guide eye 138 ...Single spool 139 ..Stands 140 ..Thread guards and guides 141 .For twine 146 ..Receptacle 147 R TENSION DEVICES 148 .Alarms and indicators 149 .Clamp 150 R ..Disk type 150 M ...Magnetic 151 ..Roller 152 ...Fluted 152.1 ..Ball 153 .Tortuous course 154 ..Adjustable 155 R .Wheel or pulley 155 M ..Magnetic 155 BW ..Bull wheels 156 .Brakes 156.1 ..Peripheral, on material itself 156.2 ..Automatic, on disc other than spool 147 A .Air 147 M .Magnet 157 R GUIDES 157.1 .Oscillatable or reciprocable 157 C .Pig tail 158 R TRAVERSE MECHANISM 158.1 .Eccentric or crankk 158.2 .Screw shaft 158.3 ..Reversely threaded 158.4 R .Reversing mechanism 158.4 A ..Split nut alternately engaging left and right hand screw threads 158.5 .Cam 158 B .Belt chain traverse 158 F .Air 159 WOUND STRAND PACKAGES 163 .Interconvolutionary strand delivery 164 .Strand end feature 165 ..Strand end forms winding 166 .Plural windings 167 ..Serially connected 168 .Distorted winding 169 ..Spooled 170 .Housing or outer peripheral support 171 ..With strand guide 172 .Strand restraining or snarl preventing means 173 ..Adhesive 174 .Particular winding 175 ..Cone wind 176 ..On core 177 ...Plain cone core 178 ...Plain cylinder 222 CARD, BOARD OR FORM * ****************************** * CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTION * ****************************** 900 SPECIAL MATERIALS * ***************************** * DIGESTS * ***************************** DIG 1 Tape program control means DIG 2 Narrow fabric winding apparatus DIG 3 Coreless coilers