Carpet strip rolling machine
OwnerGayle B. Streetinventor
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Abstract
A device for winding a carpet strip into a compact roll for handling and transport winds the carpet strip about a motor powered winding spindle controlled by, for example, a foot pedal, the strip being guided onto the spindle by a pair of selectively spaced apart guiding discs. The rolling machine may be attached to the frame of a sewing station through which the strip is passed to provide a binding tape along an edge of the carpet strip, the strip passing without handling from the sewing machine to the carpet strip rolling machine. Pedal or other controls at the sewing machine permit the operator to control both the rolling device and the sewing machine from this single location.
Claims22
A device for winding an elongate strip of flexible material into a roll without using a spool, said device comprising:
- a frame;
- an elongate, fixedly-mounted cantilevered spindle mounted upon the frame journaled to rotate about an elongate axis of said spindle;
- means powering the spindle to rotate about the elongate axis;
- combination means for attaching the starting end of the strip to the spindle, guiding the winding of said strip onto the spindle as it rotates, and releasing the attached starting end of the wound strip from the spindle without removing the resulting wound roll of strip from said spindle and while maintaining the shape of the roll of the strip for subsequent removal from the spindle.
A device for producing a roll of carpet base strip, said device comprising:
- a sewing machine device for sewing a covering of fringe tape about one edge of a strip of carpet being fed therethrough to form a carpet base strip, the sewing machine device being controllable by means of a foot pedal mounted thereto;
- a carpet strip rolling device fixedly secured by means of a frame member to the sewing machine device for receiving the strip from said machine to produce a roll thereof without using a spool, the carpet strip rolling device being controllable by means of a foot pedal mounted thereto;
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- wherein the foot pedal of the sewing machine device is mechanically connected to the foot pedal of the carpet strip rolling device by means of a cable and a plurality of pulleys such that both the sewing machine and carpet strip rolling devices are controllable by a single operator at the sewing machine device.
A device for attaching the starting end of a strip of flexible material to an elongate fixedly-mounted cantilevered spindle mounted upon a frame and journaled to rotate about an elongate axis of the spindle and for guiding the winding of the strip onto the spindle then releasing the resulting roll of wound strip for removal from the spindle, the device comprising:
- a collar which is slidable along and which is releasable securable to the spindle;
- an elongate rigid rod affixed to said collar and extending longitudinally therefrom parallel to and outwardly radially spaced from the spindle a distance sufficient for insertion of the starting end of the strip between said rod and the spindle;
- a front disc which includes a first hole therethrough to pass the spindle and a second hole which is outwardly radially spaced from said first hole such a distance and which is of such a size as to pass said rod when said disc and said collar are assembled to the spindle;
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- wherein following winding of a roll of the strip, said disc can be held in place against the roll and the roll stripped from said rod by removing said collar with attached rod from said shaft to free the starting end of the strip while maintaining the shape of the roll which remains on the spindle for subsequent removal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.