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US 4,346,550 AGranted
Tape wrapping apparatus
AssigneeWestinghouse Electric Corp.
InventorHerbert E. Ferree
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Abstract
This invention provides a novel and unique hand-held tape wrapping apparatus that is comprised generally of a support frame with a rotating plate mounted to the frame. Means of mounting a roll of tape or spool of similar material to the rotating plate is provided with a constant tension control applied directly to the tape that decreases the tension applied to the tape roll as the tape is unwound. The rotating plate is driven at variable speeds by a trigger controlled air motor that allows the operator to control the speed and easily handle the apparatus as he applies the tape.
Claims3
Tape wrapping apparatus, comprising:
- (a) a support frame;
- (b) rotating means rotatably disposed upon the support frame for rotating about a workpiece which is to be taped;
- (c) spool means disposed upon the rotating means for feeding tape to the workpiece as the rotating means rotates for tape wrapping the workpiece;
- (d) spring biased tension maintenance means disposed on the rotating means in a disposition of forceful contact with the tape on the spool means whereby the biasing of the spring biased tension maintenance means is automatically reduced for automatically adjusting to keep the tension on the tape generally constant as the tape is unwound from the spool means during a tape wrapping operation for thus producing a generally uniformly tape wrapped workpiece;
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- (e) driving means interconnected with the rotating means for causing rotation thereof.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.