Storage spool with coiled liner
AssigneeThe Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
InventorsWayne Antoine Douglas, Donald Chester Kubinski, John Patrick Roman, Matthew Ray Cappelli
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Abstract
A strip component (12) is carried by a liner (52) into a storage spool (24) having spiral grooved flanges (36, 38) for edges of the liner (52) which are guided into the grooves by guide rods (66, 74) which do not interfere with the transporting of the strip component (12) into and out of the spool (24).
Claims18
A method of storing strip material in a spool without compressing portions of said strip material underlying other portions of said strip material comprising:
- a. attaching a first end of a liner to said spool, said spool having spaced-apart flanges with spiral grooves in the axially inward opposing surfaces of said flanges for receiving edges of said liner,
- b. supplying a second end of said liner from a liner storage roll, characterized by;
- c. depositing a strip material on said liner,
- d. guiding said edges of said liner into said spiral grooves after depositing said strip material on said liner and then forming spaced-apart coils while carrying said strip material into said space between said coils.
Apparatus for loading and for storing strip material in a spool rotatably mounted on a supporting structure, said spool comprising a generally cylindrical core having axially outer ends and an axis, first and second flanges having an axially inner surface and an axially outer surface, and being fixedly attached to one of said axially outer ends of said core and each said inner surface having a spiral groove extending radially outwardly from a radially inward starting point on each of said flanges near an interface of said core and said flanges, an elastically deformable liner having elastically deformable edges characterized by a first pair of guide rods positioned adjacent each said inner surface for engagement with said edges to selectively guide said edges into said grooves providing an unobstructed center portion of said liner for carrying said strip material into the space between overlapping coils of said liner.
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