Spool assembly
AssigneeWestern Electric Company, Inc.
InventorsDonald R. Edmonston, Frederick R. Weaver
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Abstract
A spool for receiving windings of elongated material, such as connectorized lightguide cable, is made of compressive and resilient material and has a flange on each end of a hub portion. Each flange has inner and outer rims of differing diameter and a clearance therebetween for forming a channel to hold a connector that terminates an end of the cable. The channel communicates with the surface of the hub via a flared groove for passing the cable ends from hub to channel. The spool is assembled by intermeshing two identical segments.
Claims8
A spool adapted to hold one or more windings of an elongated material having at least one end terminated with a connector, said spool comprising:
- a circular hub having a first circular flange at one end thereof and a second circular flange at the other end thereof, each of said flanges comprising first and second peripheral rims, one of said rims being of greater diameter than the other rim, means forming a channel between said rims comprising a region of lesser diameter than said rims;
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- the rim closer to the hub in each of said flanges having a flared groove therein extending from said channel to a point tangent to the hub, the groove in the rim of said first flange extending in a direction opposite to the groove in the rim of said second flange.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.