B - Operations – Transporting – 65 – H
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
65
H
242/9
B65H 23/00 (2006.01) B65H 23/06 (2006.01) G07B 17/00 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2005524
ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE The invention disclosed herein provides an entirely pas- sive rolled tape supply system which supplies at least one tape under tension, preferably constant, to a drive system withdrawing the tape. The system includes a mechanism for tensioning the tape as it is withdraw and a locking mechanism for locking a roll on which the tape is wound which cooperate to perform the following functions: (a) when the tension on the tape is below a predetermined tension, and the tension on the tape is increased, the reel is locked and the tensioning mechanism maintains the tension at the desired value; (b) after the tension mechanism reaches a predetermined point (near the end of its range of travel), the reel is unlocked and is permitted to rotate and dis- pense tape therefrom as long as the tension on the tape is maintained at the predetermined tension; (c) when the withdrawing tension on the tape falls below the predetermined tension, the reel is locked, and the tensioning mechanism manitains tape ten- sion by retracting any tape returned to the tape supply. The sur- face is a roller mounted to a lever such that tape withdrawn from the roll passes over the roller. The lever is mounted to pivot about the axis of the roll on which the tape is wound and move the roller in opposite directions transverse to the axis. A spring device urges the lever in the first direction. The roll is locked by a pawl and ratchet wheel mechanism. A spring urges the pawl into engagement with the ratchet wheel to lock the roll. The pawl is disengaged from the ratchet wheel when the lever is pivoted to a predetermined position.
Alesi Thomas W. Jr.
Dannatt Hugh
Kulpa Walter J.
Pitney Bowes Inc.
Sim & Mcburney
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