Title: Web feeding or winding-up apparatus

Abstract: A device for feeding or winding up a web to or from a web using machine such as a web printing machine or a painting, coating, spreading or laminating machine, comprises two lateral uprights carrying one or two pairs of arms which are turnable about substantially horizontal axes and which carry at their free ends means for mounting the ends of a core on which a roll of web is or is to be wound, one of the arms carrying a drive motor for driving the core to rotate to wind-up or feed off web from the roll; the arms are hollow box section elements and the motor is housed within the interior which can also be provided with a brake and with means for circulating cooling air.

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Inventors: Bugnone, Aldo (Turin, IT)

Application Number: 912149
Filing Date: 1978-06-02
Publication_date: 1980-04-29
Assignee:
Primary Class(es): 242/533.6 242/533.8, 242/592, 242/599.2, 242/599.3
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US Patent Ref:

1208418	Dec, 1916	Walser et al.	242/58.
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3075719	Jan, 1963	Hornstein et al.	242/68.
3368769	Feb, 1968	Obenshain	242/68.
3486708	Dec, 1969	Lamon	242/64.
3931940	Jan, 1976	Raighn et al.	242/57.
4077579	Mar, 1978	Seleski et al.	242/57.

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Primary Examiner: Jillions, John M.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney: Sughrue, Rothwell, Mion, Zinn and Macpeak