# US 7,775,475 B2 · Winding drum for sheet-like member > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 7,775,475 B2 - Document ID: US7775475B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 11/792,447 - Filed: 2007-06-06 - Published: 2009-11-26 - Granted: 2010-08-17 - Earliest claimed: 2006-02-22 - Assignees: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd. - Inventors: Toshio Tanaka; Youichi Kikuchi; Haruhisa Hasegawa - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US7775475B2 ## CPC - B65H 75/28: Arrangements for positively securing ends of material - B29D 30/242: {for manufacturing substantially cylindrical tyre components without cores or beads, e.g. treads or belts} - B65H 19/2276: {The web roll being driven by a winding mechanism of the coreless type} - B29D 2030/241: {Auxiliary drums used for temporary storage of the layers before application to the building drums} - B29D 2030/2692: {by using suction means, e.g. vacuum producing devices} - B29D 2030/4468: {Holding the layers} - B29D 2030/4493: {by using suction means, e.g. vacuum} - B65H 2301/41426: involving suction means, e.g. core with vacuum supply - B65H 2801/93: Tyres - B65H: HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES - B29D: PRODUCING PARTICULAR ARTICLES FROM PLASTICS OR FROM SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE (making granules B29B9/00; making preforms B29B11/00) ## Abstract The object of the present invention is to provide a winding drum for a sheet-like member which can change reliably the range of air sucking intake holes by a simple structure, and to provide a winding drum which can prevent the generation of an unwanted contact mark on the sheet-like member. This winding drum having a hollow portion which is in communication with the intake holes of the drum body, a changeover member which is releasably attached in the hollow portion and which is formed so as to extend along the inner peripheral surface of the hollow portion, and an air passage (second communicating holes, first communicating hole, and hole) which is provided on the changeover member and which communicates intake holes of a predetermined range in the axial direction of the drum body with the suction device when the changeover member is attached in the hollow portion. So the range of air sucking intake holes is switched by changing the changeover member to another changeover member with another air passage. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A winding drum for a sheet-like member, comprising: a drum body having an outer peripheral surface around which the sheet-like member can be wound; a plurality of intake holes provided on the outer peripheral surface of the drum body at a predetermined position in the circumferential direction of the drum body, the intake holes being arranged in the axial direction of the drum body; a sucking means for sucking air through the intake holes so that the intake holes suck the sheet-like member when the sheet-like member is wound around the outer peripheral surface of the drum body; a hollow portion provided in the drum body so as to extend along the intake holes in the axial direction of the drum body, the hollow portion being communicated with each of the intake holes; a changeover member formed so as to extend along the hollow portion, the changeover member having an outer peripheral surface formed so as to extend along an inner peripheral surface of the hollow portion, the changeover member being rotatably provided in the hollow portion; an air passage provided on the changeover member, the air passage which communicates intake holes of a predetermined range in the axial direction of the drum body with the sucking means when the changeover member is placed at a predetermined position in a rotating direction of the changeover member, the air passage which communicates intake holes of another predetermined range in the axial direction of the drum body with the sucking means when the changeover member is placed at another predetermined position in the rotating direction of the changeover member; and a seal member provided between the outer peripheral surface of the changeover member and the inner peripheral surface of the hollow portion; wherein the seal member seals a gap between the outer peripheral surface of the changeover member and the inner peripheral surface of the hollow portion so as to inhibit suction of air through intake holes of a range other than said predetermined range when the changeover member is placed at said predetermined position in the rotating direction, and the gap between the outer peripheral surface of the changeover member and the inner peripheral surface of the hollow portion so as to inhibit suction of air through intake holes of a range other than said another predetermined range when the changeover member is placed at said another predetermined position in the rotating direction. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The winding drum for the sheet-like member according to claim 1, wherein the air passage has: a first communicating hole which is provided on the changeover member so as to extend in the axial direction of the drum body, the first communicating hole which is communicable with the sucking means; and a second communicating hole which is provided on the changeover member, the second communicating hole which communicates intake holes of said predetermined range with the first communicating hole when the changeover member is placed at said predetermined position in the rotating direction, the second communicating hole which communicates intake holes of said another predetermined range with the first communicating hole when the changeover member is placed at said another predetermined position in the rotating direction. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The winding drum for the sheet-like member according to claim 1, wherein the air passage has a concave portion which is provided on the outer peripheral surface of the changeover member, the concave portion which communicates intake holes of said predetermined range with the sucking means when the changeover member is placed at said predetermined position in the rotating direction, the concave portion which communicates intake holes of said another predetermined range with the sucking means when the changeover member is placed at said another predetermined position in the rotating direction. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The winding drum for the sheet-like member according to claim 1, wherein the changeover member is releasably attached in the hollow portion. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The winding drum for the sheet-like member according to claim 1, wherein the seal member is a plurality of annular elastic members attached to the outer peripheral surface of the changeover member so that each of the annular elastic member partition respectively the gap between the outer peripheral surface of the changeover member and the inner peripheral surface of the hollow portion in the axial direction of the drum body. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The winding drum for the sheet-like member according to claim 1, wherein the seal member is an elastic member which covers the outer peripheral surface of the changeover member and which contact with the inner peripheral surface of the hollow portion. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The winding drum for the sheet-like member according to claim 1, wherein the outer peripheral surface of the drum body has a plurality of drum members arranged at intervals from each other in the circumferential direction of the rum body, and at least one of the drum members have the intake holes and the hollow portion.