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US 5,632,455 AGranted
Apparatus for working on sheet material and having friction hub
AssigneeGerber Garment Technology, Inc.
InventorDarryl C. Stein
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AssigneeGerber Garment Technology, Inc.
InventorDarryl C. Stein
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A progressive plotter for working on successive segments of an elongated web of sheet material extending across a work surface has a pen supported to move in marking relation to material on the work surface in response to command signals received from a programmable controller. The machine includes a supply roll for paying-off sheet material and a take-up roll for receiving material from the supply roll. Each roll has a cylindrical tubular cardboard roll core extending throughout its axial length. The rolls are supported by flanged hub assemblies, each including a cylindrical hub member having a rough generally cylindrical peripheral surface and a diameter smaller than the inside diameter of the smallest roll core to be supported by the machine. The hub members rotate in rolling engagement with the inner peripheral surfaces of the roll cores to drive and/or support the rolls. Each hub assembly has an axially inwardly open recess defined by the hub member and its associated flange for receiving an end portion of a roll core which extends beyond the radially disposed end face of the sheet material wound thereon.
In an apparatus for working on sheet material and having means defining a work surface, a tool for working on sheet material, means for supporting the tool to move in working relation to material supported on the work surface in response to signals received from a programmable controller and mounting means for supporting a roll of sheet material having a generally cylindrical tubular roll core upon which the sheet material is wound and including a hub assembly having a generally cylindrical hub member and a flange supported at the axially outer end of said hub member and having a generally radially disposed and axially inwardly facing flange surface and a coaxial circular outer peripheral edge, the improvement comprising said hub member having an outside diameter substantially smaller than the inside diameter of the smallest roll core expected to be supported by said hub assembly, said hub member having a rough generally cylindrical hub surface for rolling engagement with a portion of the inner peripheral surface of the roll core.
In an apparatus for working on sheet material and having mounting means for supported a roll of sheet material having a generally cylindrical tubular roll core upon which the sheet material is wound and including a mandrel extend through the tubular core and a pair of opposing hub assemblies mounted in fixed position on said mandrel at opposite ends of the roll core, each of aid hub assemblies having a generally cylindrical hub member extending into and associated end of said tubular roll core and having an annular flange at its axially outer end, the improvement wherein each of the hub members has a diameter substantially equal to the diameter of the other of said hub members and substantially smaller than the inside diameter of the smallest roll core expected to be supported by said hub assemblies and each of said hub members has a rough generally cylindrical hub surface for rolling engagement with a portion of the inner peripheral surface of the roll core.
In an apparatus for working on sheet material and having means defining a work surface for supporting sheet material, a tool, means supporting the tool to move relative to material supported on the work surface in response to command signals received from a programmable controller, a supply roll supported at one side of the work surface, feeding means at the side of the work surface opposite said one side for receiving sheet material from said supply roll and advancing the sheet material across the work surface, and means between said one side and said supply roll for maintaining substantially constant tension in the material extending across the work surface, the improvement comprising a take-up roll for receiving the material advanced by the feeding means and having a generally cylindrical tubular cardboard roll core upon which the material received from the feeding means is wound and including a flange defining a generally radially disposed flange surface and a coaxial generally cylindrical hub projecting axially inwardly beyond said flange surface and received within an associated end of said tubular roll core, said cylindrical hub member having an outside diameter substantially smaller than the inside diameter of the smallest roll core expected to be received on the machine, said hub member having a rough generally cylindrical peripheral surface for rolling engagement with a portion of the inner peripheral surface of the roll core, and hub driving means for driving the hub assembly to maintain tension on the material received form said feeding means as the material is wound on said take-up roll.
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