EP0714375B1 - Statifs de support - Google Patents

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EP0714375B1
EP0714375B1 EP94910493A EP94910493A EP0714375B1 EP 0714375 B1 EP0714375 B1 EP 0714375B1 EP 94910493 A EP94910493 A EP 94910493A EP 94910493 A EP94910493 A EP 94910493A EP 0714375 B1 EP0714375 B1 EP 0714375B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H49/00—Unwinding or paying-out filamentary material; Supporting, storing or transporting packages from which filamentary material is to be withdrawn or paid-out
    • B65H49/18—Methods or apparatus in which packages rotate
    • B65H49/20—Package-supporting devices
    • B65H49/32—Stands or frameworks
    • B65H49/324—Constructional details
    • B65H49/325—Arrangements or adaptations for supporting the shafts, e.g. saddle type shaft bearings
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H49/00—Unwinding or paying-out filamentary material; Supporting, storing or transporting packages from which filamentary material is to be withdrawn or paid-out
    • B65H49/18—Methods or apparatus in which packages rotate
    • B65H49/20—Package-supporting devices
    • B65H49/32—Stands or frameworks
    • B65H49/321—Stands or frameworks characterised by features enabling their folding or dismantling
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H54/00—Winding, coiling, or depositing filamentary material
    • B65H54/02—Winding and traversing material on to reels, bobbins, tubes, or like package cores or formers
    • B65H54/40—Arrangements for rotating packages
    • B65H54/54—Arrangements for supporting cores or formers at winding stations; Securing cores or formers to driving members

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  • This invention relates to support stands, and is particularly concerned with the provision of a stand for supporting reels such as those on which electrical cables are supplied.
  • a stand having the technical features a), b) and c) of claim 1 is known from US-A-4 059 243.
  • a stand comprising:-
  • the stand 10 shown in Figure 1 is formed from a number of sheet metal pressings and comprises a generally flat base 11 of rectangular form in plan view, which is strengthened by the provision of square cross-section reinforcement elements 12 and 13 which extend along the sides and ends of the base 11.
  • Walls 14 and 15, also formed as sheet metal pressings, are connected to the base 11 by hinges 16 and are movable relative to the base 11 between their flat-folded positions as shown in Figure 3 and their erect, operative positions as shown in Figures 1 and 2.
  • each of the struts 17 may be pivotally connected at its one end to the respective wall 14, 15 and arranged for attachment at its other end to a tab 18 extending upwardly from the base 11.
  • Each of the walls 14, 15 is of trapezoidal configuration, having parallel edges 19, 20 which are vertical when the wall 14, 15 is in its operative position and an upper edge 21 which is inclined to the horizontal when the stand 10 is in use. As will be seen from Figure 1, the stand 10 will be positioned, in use, so that the upper edges 21 slope rearwardly upwardly from the front of the stand 10.
  • the vertical edges 19 and 20 may be provided with reinforcing flanges or beading (not shown) and the upper edge 21 of each wall 14, 15 is formed with three spaced notches or cut-outs 22, 23 and 24.
  • the notches 22, 23 and 24 in one wall are arranged in register with the notches 22, 23 and 24 in the other wall and the aligned notches serve as mounting formations for shafts or spindles 25.
  • Each shaft 25 may be of hexagonal configuration, as shown, though other cross-sectional configurations are possible.
  • two shafts 25 are employed, one being supported in the front pair of notches 22 and the other being supported in the rear pair of notches 24.
  • a number of cable reels 26 are mounted on each of the shafts 25 and, as the shafts 25 are supported at different levels, cable can be drawn from the reels 26 at the higher level without becoming entangled with cable being drawn from reels 26 at the lower level.
  • Figure 1 shows four reels 26 of identical size on each of the shafts 25, the sizes and numbers of reels may be varied as appropriate.
  • the reels 26 can carry electric cables of different sections and/or power-carrying capacity.
  • the reels can have wound about them other flexible materials such as fencing wire, sisal or hemp rope, polyester cord or the like.
  • Each of the shafts 25 has an end formation 27 to which the socket of a cranked handle 28 can be fitted so that, as described below, the shafts 25 can be rotated manually in either a clockwise or anti-clockwise direction.
  • the handle 28 will normally not be required.
  • the shafts 25 are lifted out of the notches 22, 23 or 24 in which they were supported; the reels 26 are taken off the shafts 25 and the shafts 25 are placed on the base 11.
  • the ends of the struts 17 are then disengaged from the tabs 18 and the struts 17 are pivoted into positions substantially in engagement with the base 10.
  • the walls 14 and 15 are then folded downwardly into the flat-pack positions shown in Figure 3. Access can then be obtained to the hand hole opening 29 to enable the flat-packed stand to be lifted, for example, into and out of a van or the boot of a car or to be carried up or down stairs.
  • FIG 4 shows a shaft 25 having end portions which are machined to provide trunnions 30 which act as mountings for grooved bearings 31 which are arranged to rotate freely relative to the shaft 25.
  • the grooved bearings 31 are sliding fits in the notches 22, 23 and 24 in the upper edges 21 of the walls 14 and 15.
  • a hexagonal nut 32 At one end of the shaft 25, there is a hexagonal nut 32 over which the socket of the handle 28 can be fitted.
  • Two sleeves 33 and 34 are slidably mounted on the shaft 25, each sleeve 33, 34 having a hexagonal opening to receive the shaft 25.
  • Sleeve 33 can be fixed at any desired position along the length of the shaft 25 by means of a set screw 35 having a hexagonal head of such size that tightening or release thereof can be effected by means of the handle 28.
  • Sleeve 34 is provided with two extension bosses 36, 37 located diametrically opposite to one another relative to the axis of the shaft 25.
  • Each of the bosses 36, 37 has a threaded bore to receive the stem of a set screw 38, 39 having a hexagonal head so that fixing of the sleeve 34 at a desired position along the length of the shaft 25 can be effected using the handle 28.
  • Cam levers 40, 41 are rotatably mounted on the stems of the set screws 38 and 39, each cam lever 40, 41 having an eccentric head portion such that rotary movement of the lever 40, 41 will place the leading edge of the cam a variable distance forwardly of the common axis of the stems of the set screws 38 and 39.
  • the discs 42 and 43 are preferably of circular form and each of them carries a dome-shaped or conical friction pad 44, 45.
  • the friction pads 44 and 45 are attached to the faces of the discs 42 and 43 which are directed towards one another and each of the pads 44 and 45 is formed of a semi-rigid rubber or plastics material.
  • the discs 42 and 43 are located one on each side of a reel 46, assembly of the various components on the shaft 25 being facilitated by means of a removable bolt or pin 47 located at the end of the shaft 25 remote from the hexagonal nut 32.
  • This bolt or pin 47 can be removed to allow the adjacent grooved bearing 31 to be removed and the sleeves 33 and 34, the discs 42 and 43 and the reel 46 to be threaded on to the shaft 25 in the order shown in Figure 4.
  • the discs 42 and 43 have hexagonal openings to receive the shaft 25 and are thus non-rotatable relative to the shaft 25.
  • the dome-shaped friction pads 44 and 45 When the dome-shaped friction pads 44 and 45 are moved into contact with the reel 46, they will tend to enter the through opening in the reel 46 and will thus serve to centre the reel 46 on the shaft 25. They will also grip the reel 46 so that, when the discs 42 and 43 are rotated, the reel 46 will also be rotated.
  • sleeve 33 To grip the reel 46, sleeve 33 will first be fixed at the desired position along the length of the shaft 25. The sleeve 34 will then be moved towards the sleeve 33 so as to sandwich the reel 46 between the two discs 42 and 43. The sleeve 34 is then fixed in position. During such movement of the sleeve 34, the cam levers 40 and 41 will be in their retracted positions. The gripping force exerted on the reel 46 is then increased by appropriate pivotal movement of the two cam levers 40 and 41.
  • FIG. 5 shows an alternative form of shaft 50.
  • Shaft 50 is of cylindrical form throughout its length, apart from reduced diameter portions 51 and 52 adjacent the two ends of the shaft 50.
  • the reduced diameter portions 51 and 52 can engage in the notches 22, 23 or 24 in the upper edges of the walls 14 and 15 of the stand 10.
  • Discs 53 and 54 are friction fits on the shaft 50, i.e. the discs 53 and 54 can be moved slidably along the shaft 50 but require the application of significant force to move them.
  • the shaft 50 and the discs 53 and 54 will normally be used when it is required to support a reel from which a significant length of cable is to be unwound.
  • the discs 53 and 54 will be positioned on the shaft 50, one on each side of the reel, and will serve to prevent the flanges of the reel from snagging against the walls 14 and 15 of the stand 10.
  • FIG 6 shows the use of two stands 10A and 10B.
  • Stand 10A supports a large reel 55 from which cable is to be withdrawn, reel 55 being supported on the stand 10A using the shaft 50 as shown in Figure 5.
  • Stand 10B supports a smaller reel 56 to which cable is to be transferred.
  • Reel 56 is supported on a shaft 25 using discs 42 and 43 as shown in Figure 4 and the shaft 50 is rotated using a handle 28 as described above.
  • the cable passing from reel 55 to reel 56 goes through a measuring device 57 which records the length of cable wound on to the reel 56.
  • Figure 7 shows the use of a stand 10C which supports two simple shafts 57 on each of which a plurality of cable reels 58 are mounted.
  • the cables 59 On being withdrawn from the reels 58, the cables 59 converge towards a bell-mouthed tube 60 which draws them together so that they can be tied, taped or otherwise encapsulated together.
  • the stand 10C has trapezoidal walls (as shown) and can be folded down to form a flat-pack as described above. As illustrated in Figure 2, the two shafts will be disposed on the base 11 of the stand, together with a handle 28, a pair of sleeves 33 and 34 and a pair of discs 42 and 43. The pack will thus be complete in itself and provides a readily transportable kit.

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Abstract

Un statif de support (10) pour une pluralité de bobines pour câble (26) comprend une base (11) et des parois opposées (14 et 15) montées par des charnières à la base (11) pour pouvoir se déplacer entre une position opérationnelle verticale et une position de transport où elles sont rabattues à plat sur la base (11). Les bords supérieurs (21) des parois (14 et 15) sont formés avec des encoches (22, 23 et 24) dans lesquelles viennent se placer d'une manière réversible les extrémités (25) de broches, les bobines (26) étant montées sur les broches (25). Une poignée (28) peut être prévue pour la rotation d'une broche (25) qui peut porter une paire de disques (42 et 43) pouvant se déplacer pour agripper une bobine (26). Les disques (42 et 43) peuvent porter des coussinets de friction en forme de dômes (44 et 45) qui ont un effet de centrage sur la bobine (26) avec laquelle ils s'engagent.

Claims (8)

  1. Support comprenant :
    a) une base (11),
    b) une paire de parois (14 et 15) qui sont reliées en articulation à la base (11) de façon à être mobiles par rapport à cette dernière entre des positions de travail dans lesquelles elles s'étendent essentiellement à angle droit par rapport à la base (11) et des positions de transport dans lesquelles elles sont repliées essentiellement à plat avec la base (11),
    c) des moyens amovibles (17) pour supporter les parois (14 et 15) dans leurs positions de travail,
    d) chacune desdites parois (14 et 15) englobant plusieurs structures de montage espacées (22, 23 et 24), et
    e) plusieurs arbres (25) aptes à venir s'insérer dans les structures de montage (22, 23 et 24) des parois (14 et 15) lorsque les parois (14 et 15) se trouvent dans leurs positions de travail de telle sorte que les arbres (25) s'étendent essentiellement parallèlement à la base (11), mais sont espacés sur des distances différentes par rapport à la base (11).
  2. Support selon la revendication 1, qui englobe une poignée (28) pour faire tourner au moins un des arbres (25), ainsi que des moyens d'insertion (42, 43) destinée à venir s'insérer dans une bobine de câble (26) pour monter la bobine de câble (26) sur un des arbres (25) à des fins de rotation avec l'arbre (25) de telle sorte que le mouvement rotatif de la poignée (28) sert à faire tourner la bobine (26).
  3. Support selon la revendication 2, dans lequel la base (11) et les parois (14 et 15) du support, lorsque les parois (14 et 15) se trouvent dans leurs positions de transport, définissent ensemble un conditionnement qui peut contenir les arbres (25), la poignée (28) et les moyens d'insertion (42, 43).
  4. Support selon la revendication 1, dans lequel les parois (14 et 15) sont de configuration trapézoïdale et, lorsqu'elles se trouvent dans leurs positions de travail, possèdent des bords supérieurs (21) qui sont inclinés par rapport à l'horizontale, les structures de montage (22, 23 et 24) pour les arbres (25) étant munies de découpes pratiquées dans leurs bords supérieurs (21).
  5. Support selon la revendication 1, dans lequel la base (11) est de forme rectangulaire dans une vue en plan, les parois (14 et 15) étant situées sur les petits côtés du rectangle, et une ouverture (29) étant pratiquée dans la base (11) en position adjacente à un des grands côtés du rectangle, ladite ouverture (29) servant de trou pour la main pour faciliter le transport du support lorsque les parois (14 et 15) se trouvent dans leurs positions de transport dans laquelle elles sont repliées à plat.
  6. Support selon la revendication 2, dans lequel les moyens d'insertion destinés à venir s'insérer dans la bobine de câble (26) comprennent une paire de disques (42 et 43) qui sont montés sur l'arbre (25), un de chaque côté de la bobine (26), lesdits disques (42 et 43) étant à même de coulisser par rapport à l'arbre (25), mais étant disposés en antirotation par rapport à ce dernier, et des moyens de cames (40 et 41) à commande manuelle étant prévus pour déplacer les disques (42 et 43) dans une position de fixation par insertion dans la bobine (26).
  7. Support selon la revendication 6, dans lequel chacun des disques (42, 43) est muni d'un tampon de friction (44, 45) en forme de dôme qui vient s'insérer dans la bobine (26) de telle sorte que l'on obtient simultanément une action de fixation et de centrage.
  8. Support selon la revendication 6, dans lequel on prévoit des vis (35, 38, 39) pour empêcher le mouvement longitudinal des disques (42, 43) sur l'arbre (25) une fois qu'ils ont été déplacés en position de fixation par insertion dans la bobine (26).
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GB9307192A GB2277509B (en) 1993-04-06 1993-04-06 Multi-reel cable handling system
PCT/GB1994/000646 WO1994022753A1 (fr) 1993-04-06 1994-03-28 Statifs de support

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