Feeder assembly for strip material
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorJesse L. Morris
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Abstract
A feeder assembly for advancing strip material from a material source along a guide. The assembly comprises a clamp reciprocally movable on the guide and an air cylinder actuator for initially closing the clamp on the material and thereafter advancing the clamp with the material clamped therein along the guide and, after advancement, for opening said clamp and thereafter retracting the clamp while the material slides through the open clamp.
Claims8
A strip material advancing machine for advancing strip material to a winding arbor comprising:
- (a) a clamp slidably mounted on a guide and having a pair of jaws for receiving a strip of material;
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- (b) contact means pivoted on one of said jaws and having a cylindrical surface which contacts and clamps said strip material between said contact means and the other of said jaws when said contact means is pivoted in a first direction, means on said one of said jaws for engaging and pivoting said contact means in said first direction for clamping said strip material between said contact means and the other of said jaws, said contact means being pivoted in an opposite direction for releasing said engaging means and said strip material when said strip material is advanced by said winding arbor along said guide independently of said feeder assembly.
A strip material advancing machine comprising:
- a guide for guiding said strip material;
- a first member and a second member mounted on said guide;
- means for coupling said first member to said second member for gripping a section of said strip material;
- said second member having a rotatable contact surface for contacting said material, said coupling means including a pivot about which said contacting surface of said second member is rotatable, a force of said gripping increasing with rotation in a first direction and being released with rotation in the opposite direction;
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- a winding arbor disposed at an end of said guide for pulling said strip material from said rotatable contact surface during a winding of said material upon said arbor.
A machine for feeding strip material comprising:
- a guide for supporting said strip material;
- means, movable along said guide for engaging with said strip material, said engaging means including;
- a pivot;
- contacting means carried by said pivot for making contact with said material, said pivot urging said contacting means against the material for gripping the material during a rotation of said contacting means for advancement in the direction of said feeding;
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- a winding arbor disposed at an end of said guide for pulling said strip material from said rotatable contact surface during a winding of said material upon said arbor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.