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US 4,417,703 AGranted
Quick retrieve cord reel
OwnerDennis G. Weinholdinventor
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Abstract
A mobile cord reel which incorporates a rotatably mounted axle having the cord passing diagonally diametrically therethrough, to serve as a device to permit quick spooling of a cord from two directions into a reel located in the midst of the cord.
Claims6
A floating cord reel for storing cord, comprising:
- a sectioned axle having a spindle section and a bobbin section and defining an aperture lying generally in a diametrical plane of said bobbin section of said axle, said bobbin section removeably engaging said spindle section to facilitate threading said cord through said aperture;
- housing means having said axle rotatably mounted therein for maintaining said cord in general perpendicularity with respect to said axle as said cord approaches said bobbin section of said axle, said housing means including a removeable end plate to allow said bobbin section to be disengaged from said spindle section;
- and
- rotating means engaging said spindle section of said axle for selectively rotating said axle to spool said cord about said bobbin section of said axle and further for permitting said cord to be selectively unspooled from said bobbin section of said axle.
1 more element
A method for compactly storing cord in a floating cord reel having a housing and a sectioned axle rotatably mounted therein comprising the steps of:
- removing an end plate of said housing to expose a removeable bobbin section of said axle;
- disengaging said bobbin section of said axle from a spindle section of said axle;
- threading said cord through a first apertured guide in said housing, through a diametrical aperture in said disengaged bobbin section of said axle, and through a second apertured guide in said housing;
- re-engaging said bobbin section of said axle with said spindle section of said axle;
- replacing said end plate of said housing in position upon said housing to rotatably lock said bobbin section of said axle in position and to enclose a spooling chamber within said housing;
- sliding said housing along the length of said cord to a desired location along said cord;
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- spooling two wraps of said cord about said bobbin section of said axle for each revolution of said axle.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.