GB2275670A - Rewindable cable reel - Google Patents

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GB2275670A
GB2275670A GB9404353A GB9404353A GB2275670A GB 2275670 A GB2275670 A GB 2275670A GB 9404353 A GB9404353 A GB 9404353A GB 9404353 A GB9404353 A GB 9404353A GB 2275670 A GB2275670 A GB 2275670A
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Michael Corcoran
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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
    • 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
    • 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
    • B65H75/44—Constructional details
    • B65H75/4457—Arrangements of the frame or housing
    • B65H75/4471—Housing enclosing the reel
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
    • H02G—INSTALLATION OF ELECTRIC CABLES OR LINES, OR OF COMBINED OPTICAL AND ELECTRIC CABLES OR LINES
    • H02G11/00—Arrangements of electric cables or lines between relatively-movable parts
    • H02G11/02—Arrangements of electric cables or lines between relatively-movable parts using take-up reel or drum

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Abstract

Reel 9, supplying electricity to a power tool, e.g. in the garden, stores cable 6 in a single, spiral layer. Coil spring 7 rewinds the cable. Connector 3 has sliding contacts to supply the rotating cable. The drum has apertures for cable ventilation. Ground stake 1 locates the reel above ground. <IMAGE>

Description

"Recoil Cable Reel" This invention relates to a recoil cable reel.
Cable reels are well known in the electrical accessory market, they are used to contain usually 10 amp cable on a drum with a framework around the drum forming a stand and a handle. Usually these products have a handle to wind the electrical cable back onto the drum.
Retractable cable reels are used in vacuum cleaners to recover the cable back onto the drum by means of a spring.
One problem with winding, for example, 15 meters of 1 mm square 10 amp cable on to a drum were the cables are repeatedly wrapped over and around each other when the cable is loaded, is that the cable can not be used in its wound state because the cable will over heat due mainly to insufficient ventilation.
According to the present invention there is provided a recoil cable reel comprising a rotatable drum that will only accept one layer of cable per revolution.
Preferably, the drum is well ventilated both top and bottom so allowing the heat generated in the cable to be dissipated to the air so allowing the reel to be used when fully wound.
The cable reel may be used with power tools to enable the user of said tools to move freely about the workshop home or garden.
The drum may be fixed to a coil spring. The advantage gained by making the drum flat and thin as well as having a very long spring is that the cable is very easy to pull away from the reel at the start point due to the mechanical advantage of the very large diameter drum. At this point any drag on the cable is low; at full extension the cable can still be held comfortably by the hand, ie a maximum force equivalent to about 1 to 3 kilos. When the cable is wound back the power in the spring is at a maximum and the drum is at a minimum diameter so giving an easy pull back overcoming the increased friction of the length of cable being pulled over the ground.
Preferably, the drum is attached to running electrical contacts so supplying power between moving drum and fixed base.
When used in a garden the cable reel may be secured by means of a stake.
An embodiment of the invention will now be described, by way of example, with reference to the accompanying drawings in which: Fig. 1 shows a cross-section through the device; Fig. 2 shows a perspective view of the recoil cable reel; and Fig. 3 shows an exploded assembly.
Figs. 1 and 3 show an embodiment of a recoil cable reel according to the present invention. The device comprises a drum 9 which can rotate about a stake 1 which would, in use by driven into the ground in order to secure the reel. Cable 6 may be wound onto the drum and the drum is configured so that each rotation of the drum winds or unwinds on a single layer of cable 6 onto the drum 9.
The drum 9 is mounted upon an electrical connector block 3 which is attached to the stake 1 and includes running electrical contacts 8 so that power can be supplied between the stationary elements of the reel and the drum.
The drum is mounted in a casing comprising a drum case base 2 which is attached to the stake 1 and protects the drum from contacting the surface upon which the device rests, and a drum case top 4 which also protects the drum 9.
A coil spring 7 is provided. This provides a force to the drum 9 tending to keep the cable 6 wound on the drum 9, and enabling the cable reel to retract the cable when the tension of the cable 6 not wound onto the drum is sufficiently small. The spring 7 is covered by a spring cover 5 which is provided below the drum case top 4.
The drum 9 is essentially cylindrical and has a relatively large diameter but a small axial length.
The axial length of the drum is of the order of the diameter of the cable to be wound on the drum and is less than twice the diameter of the cable. Thus, when the cable 6 is wound onto the drum 9 a single layer of cable is wound onto the drum 9 with each revolution of the drum 9.
Figure 2 shows a perspective view of an embodiment of a cable reel according to the present invention.
The drum 9 and drum case top 4 is shaped so as to allow good ventilation of the cable 6.

Claims (10)

1 A recoil cable reel comprising a rotatable drum on which cable may be wound wherein the drum is configured to wind or unwind a single layer of cable with each revolution of said drum.
2 A recoil cable reel as claimed in Claim 1 comprising a stake which can be used to secure said recoil cable reel.
3 A recoil cable reel as claimed in either of the preceding Claims wherein the drum is provided with perforations or apertures to allow the cable to be ventilated.
4 A recoil cable reel as claimed in any preceding Claim wherein the cable may have current flowing while said cable is wound on and off the drum.
5 A recoil cable reel as claimed in any preceding Claim wherein there is a spring to power the recoil action of the drum.
6 A recoil cable reel as claimed in Claim 5 wherein the spring is a coil spring.
7 A recoil cable reel as Claimed in any preceding Claim wherein the current is supplied to the drum by sliding contacts.
8 A recoil cable reel, comprising a drum, that can be secured to the ground by means of a stake, wherein there is provided a spring means to rewind cable onto the drum, thus taking up slack in the cable, whilst allowing the cable to be unwound from the drum by pulling upon the cable.
9 A recoil cable reel as in Claim 1 or 2 where in the purpose is to stop a user from cutting the cable of a electric garden mower that the reel is attached to by means of the reel holding the cable away from the mower by means of the sprung action of the reel.
10 A recoil cable reel substantially as described herein with reference to Figs. 1-3 of the accompanying drawings.
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GB939304631A GB9304631D0 (en) 1993-03-06 1993-03-06 Retractable cable reel
GB9404353A GB2275670B (en) 1993-03-06 1994-03-07 Recoil cable reel

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Cited By (1)

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
GB2292933A (en) * 1994-09-09 1996-03-13 Michael Ginnever Self-rewinding cable extensions

Citations (4)

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GB1212436A (en) * 1968-01-22 1970-11-18 Brudi Equipment Improvements in or relating to reel units for pairs of hose lines
GB1590160A (en) * 1978-05-02 1981-05-28 Standard Telephones Cables Ltd Electrical cables
GB2114096A (en) * 1982-02-04 1983-08-17 Fumakilla Ltd Retractable reel for electric fumigator
GB2210355A (en) * 1987-09-21 1989-06-07 Ametek Offshore Spooled umbilical system

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
GB1212436A (en) * 1968-01-22 1970-11-18 Brudi Equipment Improvements in or relating to reel units for pairs of hose lines
GB1590160A (en) * 1978-05-02 1981-05-28 Standard Telephones Cables Ltd Electrical cables
GB2114096A (en) * 1982-02-04 1983-08-17 Fumakilla Ltd Retractable reel for electric fumigator
GB2210355A (en) * 1987-09-21 1989-06-07 Ametek Offshore Spooled umbilical system

Cited By (1)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
GB2292933A (en) * 1994-09-09 1996-03-13 Michael Ginnever Self-rewinding cable extensions

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