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US 3,945,583 AGranted
Rewind shaft
AssigneeTidland Corporation
InventorsGordon M. Ochs, Raymond L. Wheeler
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Abstract
An improved rewind shaft of a web slitting machine has a long shaft portion supporting cores which are held in exact positions and against movement along the shaft by a retaining sleeve held against longitudinal movement relative to the rewind shaft by an expansible air shaft segment forming a detachable end portion of the rewind shaft.
Claims4
In a rewind shaft,
- an elongated tube of a predetermined length having a first end and a second end,
- a first journal means detachably secured to the first end of the tube,
- a stop collar on the first journal means projecting radially beyond the outer periphery of the tube,
- an expansible shaft segment of a length a small fraction of that of the tube, attachment means releasably securing the shaft segment to the second end of the tube, and a second journal means secured to the shaft segment at an end thereof remote from the tube, a sleeve for holding a series of fiber cores on the tube between the sleeve and the stop collar, the expansible shaft segment serving to hold said sleeve against endwise movement relative to said tube, whereby said fiber cores are held against endwise movement.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.