Tubular roller sleeve
OwnerJohn O. Finzerinventor
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Abstract
A rubber-sleeved roller including a tubular sleeve preferably fabricated from a plastic material and formed with a smooth internal surface to fit on the smooth outer peripheral surface of a metal core and having a tubular rubber sleeve formed on the outer peripheral surface of the nonmetallic sleeve with the rubber sleeve finish ground to a smooth outer peripheral surface on the nonmetallic sleeve whereby the tubular sleeve structure may be readily interchangeable with a similar sleeve structure on a metal core.
Claims3
A printers roller including a metal core having a smooth outer peripheral surface of a certain diameter and continuous from end to end of the core, a tubular sleeve having a smooth internal surface of an inside diameter providing a close fit on the outer surface of said core and extending continuously substantially from end to end of said core, a tubular rubber sleeve vulcanized on the outer surface of said tubular sleeve and having a finish ground smooth outer surface and extending continuously substantially from end to end of said tubular sleeve, and removable means releasably securing said tubular sleeve on said core whereby said sleeve and the tubular rubber sleeve may be removed from the metal core as a unit, said means including a slot in the tubular sleeve at one end and a recessed way in the metal core at one end providing registering keyways in the tubular sleeve and in the metal core, and a removable key in said keyways.
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