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US2508809A
US2508809A US16870A US1687048A US2508809A US 2508809 A US2508809 A US 2508809A US 16870 A US16870 A US 16870A US 1687048 A US1687048 A US 1687048A US 2508809 A US2508809 A US 2508809A
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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
    • B65H75/00—Storing webs, tapes, or filamentary material, e.g. on reels
    • B65H75/02—Cores, formers, supports, or holders for coiled, wound, or folded material, e.g. reels, spindles, bobbins, cop tubes, cans, mandrels or chucks
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    • B65H75/148—Kinds or types of circular or polygonal cross-section with two end flanges with at least one frustoconical end flange
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H75/00—Storing webs, tapes, or filamentary material, e.g. on reels
    • B65H75/02—Cores, formers, supports, or holders for coiled, wound, or folded material, e.g. reels, spindles, bobbins, cop tubes, cans, mandrels or chucks
    • B65H75/34—Cores, formers, supports, or holders for coiled, wound, or folded material, e.g. reels, spindles, bobbins, cop tubes, cans, mandrels or chucks specially adapted or mounted for storing and repeatedly paying-out and re-storing lengths of material provided for particular purposes, e.g. anchored hoses, power cables
    • B65H75/38—Cores, formers, supports, or holders for coiled, wound, or folded material, e.g. reels, spindles, bobbins, cop tubes, cans, mandrels or chucks specially adapted or mounted for storing and repeatedly paying-out and re-storing lengths of material provided for particular purposes, e.g. anchored hoses, power cables involving the use of a core or former internal to, and supporting, a stored package of material
    • B65H75/40—Cores, formers, supports, or holders for coiled, wound, or folded material, e.g. reels, spindles, bobbins, cop tubes, cans, mandrels or chucks specially adapted or mounted for storing and repeatedly paying-out and re-storing lengths of material provided for particular purposes, e.g. anchored hoses, power cables involving the use of a core or former internal to, and supporting, a stored package of material mobile or transportable
    • B65H75/406—Cores, formers, supports, or holders for coiled, wound, or folded material, e.g. reels, spindles, bobbins, cop tubes, cans, mandrels or chucks specially adapted or mounted for storing and repeatedly paying-out and re-storing lengths of material provided for particular purposes, e.g. anchored hoses, power cables involving the use of a core or former internal to, and supporting, a stored package of material mobile or transportable hand-held during use
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2402/00—Constructional details of the handling apparatus
    • B65H2402/40—Details of frames, housings or mountings of the whole handling apparatus
    • B65H2402/41—Portable or hand-held apparatus
    • B65H2402/412—Portable or hand-held apparatus details or the parts to be hold by the user, e.g. handle
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2701/00—Handled material; Storage means
    • B65H2701/30—Handled filamentary material
    • B65H2701/35—Ropes, lines
    • B65H2701/352—Clotheslines

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  • This invention relates to improvements in clothes line reels.
  • the reel proper comprises two identical halves each provided centrally with a flange and the two flanges together constituting a bearing upon" a central support provided with a handle.
  • the flanges at the center of the reel preferably rotate on the periphery of a core and are confined between a pair of discs, the discs and core providing a bearing complementary to the reel.
  • One of these discs has the ends of a one-piece handle welded thereto.
  • Fig. 1 is a view in perspective of a complete reel embodying my invention.
  • Fig. 2 is an enlarged detailed view in transverse section through the reel shown in Fig. 1.
  • Fig. 3 is a fragmentary view on the scale of Fig. 2 showing portions of my improved reel in front elevation, other portions thereof being broken away.
  • Fig. 4 is a fragmentary detailed view in transverse section showing a modified embodiment.
  • Each of the annular reel elements 5 and 6 is pressed from a single piece of metal concavely formed into the frustum of a cone.
  • the portions of each element which are of smaller radius at 1 and 8 are curved into a virtually cylindrical form where the elements abut.
  • each element integrally provides a short inwardly directed flange at 9, the two flanges being welded together in face contact to provide a connection between the elements and a bearing for the resulting reel.
  • Each of the elements 5 and 6 is preferably provided with any desired number of radial ribs at l0 for reinforcement.
  • a bearing support is provided upon which the reel is freely rotatable.
  • the handle 15 comprises a single piece of strap metal having its ends turned inwardly at [6, l1, and Welded to the disc I4 as shown at l8 in Fig. 3. Welding at 19, 20 also holds the discs l3, l4 to the core l2.
  • the assembled reel is very inexpensive and easily made of simple parts and yet is very serviceable and operates smoothly and freely to support a clothes lin for winding or unwinding.
  • one or both of the reel elements is desirably provided with a key-hole slot to receive and anchor the knotted end of the clothes line.
  • the disc I30 has a central offset or shoulder at I20 which serves as a bearing core, replacing the core l2 shown in Fig. 2.
  • the offset portion I20 of the disc I30 is welded directly to the disc It, the construction being otherwise identical with that already described.
  • a clothes line reel comprising a pair of centrally convergent annular reel elements having in face contact like inwardly directed inner flanges, and a pair of discs peripherally embracing said flanges and having a bearing core upon which said flanges are rotatable for the rotatable support of said reel, one of said discs having a handle connected therewith.
  • said core comprises a separate piece of metal having its external periphery fitting within the inner peripheral margins of the flanges of the reel elements and having a thickness substantially corresponding to the combined thickness of the reel element flanges, the said core being sandwiched between the discs aforesaid.
  • said core comprises an annular shoulder upon one of said discs, the outer periphery of the shoulder providing a bearing fitted within the inner peripheries of said flanges to provide a support on which said reel is rotatable.
  • a clothes line reel comprising a pair of substantially identical frusto-conical elements each provided with radial flutes and each having a portion of lesser diameter formed curvilineally into substantially cylindrical outline, each such element having its said central cylindrical portion provided with an inwardly directed annular flange, the two flanges being in face contact and together providing a bearing for said reel, together with a bearing support upon which the reel is rotatable, such support comprising a pair of discs embracing said flanges and a round core having an axial dimension approximately equal to the combined thickness of said flanges and upon the periphery of which said reel has bearing contact, one of said discs being provided with a handle.

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M y 23, 0 F. M. ALLEN 2,508,809
CLOTHESLINE REEL Filed March 24, 1948 INVENTOR. FTen/vz M. HMEA/ Patented May 23, 1950 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE Kenworth Manufacturing & Milwaukee, Wis., a corporation Stamping 00., of Wisconsin Application March 24, 1948, Serial No. 16,870
6 Claims.
This invention relates to improvements in clothes line reels.
It is the primary object of the invention to provide an effective reel of novel and inexpensive construction for use in the winding of clothes lines and the like.
More particularly stated, it is my purpose to provide a reel in which the reel proper comprises two identical halves each provided centrally with a flange and the two flanges together constituting a bearing upon" a central support provided with a handle. The flanges at the center of the reel preferably rotate on the periphery of a core and are confined between a pair of discs, the discs and core providing a bearing complementary to the reel. One of these discs has the ends of a one-piece handle welded thereto.
In the drawings:
Fig. 1 is a view in perspective of a complete reel embodying my invention.
Fig. 2 is an enlarged detailed view in transverse section through the reel shown in Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is a fragmentary view on the scale of Fig. 2 showing portions of my improved reel in front elevation, other portions thereof being broken away.
Fig. 4 is a fragmentary detailed view in transverse section showing a modified embodiment.
Each of the annular reel elements 5 and 6 is pressed from a single piece of metal concavely formed into the frustum of a cone. The portions of each element which are of smaller radius at 1 and 8 are curved into a virtually cylindrical form where the elements abut. Thence each element integrally provides a short inwardly directed flange at 9, the two flanges being welded together in face contact to provide a connection between the elements and a bearing for the resulting reel. Each of the elements 5 and 6 is preferably provided with any desired number of radial ribs at l0 for reinforcement.
A bearing support is provided upon which the reel is freely rotatable. The inner peripheral margins of the flanges 9, which are welded together at I l as shown in Fig. 3, bear on the outer periphery of a core l2 and are confined between a pair of discs l3, M. The handle 15 comprises a single piece of strap metal having its ends turned inwardly at [6, l1, and Welded to the disc I4 as shown at l8 in Fig. 3. Welding at 19, 20 also holds the discs l3, l4 to the core l2. The assembled reel is very inexpensive and easily made of simple parts and yet is very serviceable and operates smoothly and freely to support a clothes lin for winding or unwinding. As shown at 22, one or both of the reel elements is desirably provided with a key-hole slot to receive and anchor the knotted end of the clothes line.
In the modification shown in Fig. 4, the disc I30 has a central offset or shoulder at I20 which serves as a bearing core, replacing the core l2 shown in Fig. 2. In this case the offset portion I20 of the disc I30 is welded directly to the disc It, the construction being otherwise identical with that already described.
I claim:
1. A clothes line reel comprising a pair of centrally convergent annular reel elements having in face contact like inwardly directed inner flanges, and a pair of discs peripherally embracing said flanges and having a bearing core upon which said flanges are rotatable for the rotatable support of said reel, one of said discs having a handle connected therewith.
2. The clothes line reel defined in claim 1 in which said core comprises a separate piece of metal having its external periphery fitting within the inner peripheral margins of the flanges of the reel elements and having a thickness substantially corresponding to the combined thickness of the reel element flanges, the said core being sandwiched between the discs aforesaid.
3. The combination set forth in claim 1 in which said core comprises an annular shoulder upon one of said discs, the outer periphery of the shoulder providing a bearing fitted within the inner peripheries of said flanges to provide a support on which said reel is rotatable.
4. A clothes line reel comprising a pair of substantially identical frusto-conical elements each provided with radial flutes and each having a portion of lesser diameter formed curvilineally into substantially cylindrical outline, each such element having its said central cylindrical portion provided with an inwardly directed annular flange, the two flanges being in face contact and together providing a bearing for said reel, together with a bearing support upon which the reel is rotatable, such support comprising a pair of discs embracing said flanges and a round core having an axial dimension approximately equal to the combined thickness of said flanges and upon the periphery of which said reel has bearing contact, one of said discs being provided with a handle.
5. The device of claim 4 in which the discs are planiform and the core is a disc of smaller diameter sandwiched therebetween.
6. The device of, claim 1 in which one of the discs has a central axially embossed portion shouldered to provide said core.
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US2855717A (en) * 1956-08-21 1958-10-14 Harry A Heil Fishing reel and holder
US3174703A (en) * 1963-10-17 1965-03-23 Falkum Sverre Line storing reel
US3176932A (en) * 1963-06-26 1965-04-06 Joseph J Kovaleski Spool for wire
US3838830A (en) * 1973-04-19 1974-10-01 M Pettit Device for storing line
US4484718A (en) * 1982-01-12 1984-11-27 Invicta Plastics Limited Hand held reel
US4493462A (en) * 1984-04-18 1985-01-15 Essex Group, Inc. Spool with lifting handles

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US2250281A (en) * 1939-03-22 1941-07-22 Carl A Sundstrand Clothesline reel

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US2250281A (en) * 1939-03-22 1941-07-22 Carl A Sundstrand Clothesline reel

Cited By (7)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US2855717A (en) * 1956-08-21 1958-10-14 Harry A Heil Fishing reel and holder
US3176932A (en) * 1963-06-26 1965-04-06 Joseph J Kovaleski Spool for wire
US3174703A (en) * 1963-10-17 1965-03-23 Falkum Sverre Line storing reel
US3838830A (en) * 1973-04-19 1974-10-01 M Pettit Device for storing line
US4484718A (en) * 1982-01-12 1984-11-27 Invicta Plastics Limited Hand held reel
US4493462A (en) * 1984-04-18 1985-01-15 Essex Group, Inc. Spool with lifting handles
FR2563202A1 (en) * 1984-04-18 1985-10-25 Essex Group PLASTIC MOLDED COIL WITH HANDLES FOR LIFT AND MANUAL TRANSPORT OF THE REEL

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