US2649260A - Field reel for cable coil - Google Patents

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2 Sheets- Sheet 1 ,30 3 "Zvv C. J. BENEKE FIELD REEL FOR CABLE COIL Aug. 18, 1 953 Filed May 26, 1950 fw y 7 E INVENTOR.

TZ'KNEX C. J. BENEKE FIELD REEL FOR CABLE COIL Aug. 18, 1953 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed May 2e, 195o INVENTOR.

Patented Aug. 18, 1953 UNITED s'rA'rss TENT OFFICE FIELD REEL FOR CABLE OOIL Charles J. Beneke, Louisville, Ky., assignor to Reynolds Metals Company, Richmond, Va., 'a

ccrporaticn 'of Delaware 2 Claims.

The present invention relates to reels for cable coils and particularly to a reel for use in the field and to which a transported coil of cable will be applied. The invention is particularly applicable to the handling of coils of cable which, through handling in shipment have been affected by derangement of the convolutions as to normal relative 'position because the invention enables restoration of the proper form of the coil preliminary to unwinding and without tangling, binding and probable injury.

The invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a vertical section through an embodiment of the invention;

Fig. 2 is a side elevation, partly broken away;

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary section on the line 3-3, Fig. 1;

Fig. i is an enlarged fragmentary view showing one of the adjusting rod members of the reel into which it is threaded;

Fig. 5 is a view in elevation taken at right angles to the preceding gure;

Fig. 6 is a perspective view showing a normal coil of cable secured by tie bands.

In the shipment of cable, including armored cable, it is customary to form a coil of the cable and to tie convolutions in position by means of metallic tie bands. Such a coil is shown at I in Fig. 6, the tie bands being indicated at 2.

In the held it is customary to place such a cable coil upon a horizontally supported shaft or drum and to unreel the cable preliminary to use. It frequently happens, however, that, due to stresses exerted upon the coil in shipping, the convolutions are mis-alined and the normal form of the coil distorted. Therefore difficulty is met with in unreeling the cable because the convolutions are not properly related.

In Fig. 1 I have indicated by the dotted lines at 3 the boundaries of a coil of cable which has become distorted from its normal form and placed upon a Iield reel constructed in accordance with the present invention. This reel consists of a shaft receiving sleeve .li provided with a plurality .f

is reinforced by an internal reinforcing ring 8. Supported upon sleeve 4 and also suitably secured to drum or hub l, is a large cable coil abutting first header 9. This header S may be stamped out of a sheet of aluminum alloy or other metal and the peripheral area turned outward and then inward as shown in Fig. 1 to provide a strong rim, the strength of the header being further increased by embossed ribs I0.

The spacer discs 5 are apertured to receive a plurality of tie rods, four in the present embodiment. These tie rods are shown at II and at their outer ends they carry exterior nuts I2. The inner ends of the rods are threaded and are passed through apertures I3 of L-shaped brackets I3 which are Welded or otherwise secured to one of the spacer discs 5 and, in each case, to the adjacent inner wall of drum or hub l. Inner nuts I4 threaded on to the tie rods I l may be held against rotation by clips l5.

The reel is provided with a removable header I6 the periphery of which is rolled as in the case of header 9, and reinforcing ribs IIIrv may be provided. The header I6 is formed with a disc 2M: having an axial aperture for the reception of a shaft, this aperture being in register with an internal reinforcing ring I'I for the sleeve d. Header I@ is provided with a plurality of bayonet slots as at I8, Fig. 2, the larger area of each slot being of a size to pass the nuts I2. The nuts likewise may pass through corresponding apertures at 20 in a telescopic hub 2i having disc 23x05 and carried by said header It and slidingly tted Within hub I. A washer |211: is used in conjunction with screwable nut I2 to effect a firm grasp against disc 20x.

When the nuts l2 are alined with the apertures 20 and hence the bayonet slots I8 of header I5, the latter may be moved inwardly to the position of Fig. 1 whereupon said header Iii may be rotated to bring the rods Il into the narrow section of the bayonet slots, the coil being in position on the tightening of the nuts I2 to move header I6 toward its co-acting header 9 until, for example, whereupon the deformed and inisalined coil, shown in its position at the dotted lines 3, Will be restored to proper form, as indicated by the dotted lines 39. Thereupon the nuts may be somewhat loosened to permit free payingout cable from the reel.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is as follows:

1. A reel for aligning deranged cable coil thereon comprising a first header, an inner sleeve secured to said rst header, a plurality of spacedapart discs disposed about said sleeve and having a plurality of in-line apertures therein for passage of tie-rods therethrough, an outer cylindrical drum secured to the peripheries of said discs and to the said first header, a movable header, a cylindrical hub secured to said movable header and adapted to be adjustably moved into and out of said drum, said hub having a pair of spaced-apart discs integrally secured thereto and having a plurality of irl-line apertures therein adapted to receive a plurality of tie-rods, and a plurality of tie-rods having threaded ends tted through said discs of said rst and said movable headers and means workably associated with said tie-rods to move said hub into said drum.

2. The reel of claim 1 wherein a plurality of brackets are disposed exteriorly relative to one of said spaced-apart discs secured to said sleeve, said brackets having apertures therein to receive said tie-rods, and said means being adjustable means for securing said tie-rods to said brackets and to said hubs secured to said movable header, whereby adjustment of said adjustable means will cause linear movement of said hub within said drum.

CHARLES J. BENEKE.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,036,079 Davis Aug. 20, 1912 1,265,110 Prentiss May '7, 1918 1,271,308 Green July 2, 1913 1,824,639 Trautvetter Sept. 22, 1931 1,925,428 Abrash Sept. 5, 1933 2,499,268 Crooks Feb. 28, 1950 2,518,533 Edwards Aug. 15, 1950 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date 204,486 Great Britain Oct. 4, 1923

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