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EP0636568B1
EP0636568B1 EP94401539A EP94401539A EP0636568B1 EP 0636568 B1 EP0636568 B1 EP 0636568B1 EP 94401539 A EP94401539 A EP 94401539A EP 94401539 A EP94401539 A EP 94401539A EP 0636568 B1 EP0636568 B1 EP 0636568B1
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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
    • B65H75/18—Constructional details
    • B65H75/22—Constructional details collapsible; with removable parts
    • B65H75/2209—Constructional details collapsible; with removable parts collapsible by use of hinged or slidable parts; foldable without removing parts
    • 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
    • B65H75/18—Constructional details
    • B65H75/22—Constructional details collapsible; with removable parts
    • B65H75/2218—Collapsible hubs
    • B65H75/2227—Collapsible hubs with a flange fixed to the hub part
    • 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
    • B65H2701/50—Storage means for webs, tapes, or filamentary material
    • B65H2701/51—Cores or reels characterised by the material
    • B65H2701/512—Cores or reels characterised by the material moulded
    • B65H2701/5122—Plastics
    • 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
    • B65H2701/50—Storage means for webs, tapes, or filamentary material
    • B65H2701/51—Cores or reels characterised by the material
    • B65H2701/513—Cores or reels characterised by the material assembled mainly from rigid elements of the same kind
    • B65H2701/5136—Moulded plastic elements

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  • the present invention relates to a foldable reel, in particular although not exclusively a reel intended for the winding of electric cables or optical fiber cables.
  • Drums of this type have the advantage of having a smaller footprint in the folded position than conventional drums with a rigid drum and, in a position of use, the lateral surfaces of the parts of the articulated elements bear on each other. so that the forces resulting from the winding of the cable on the drum are regularly distributed over the lateral surfaces of the articulated elements.
  • the shocks to which the cheeks are subjected cause the hinges to deteriorate so that the foldable drum risks to be quickly out of use.
  • the simultaneous rupture of several hinges risks putting the drum immediately out of use.
  • the reel according to the invention comprises two cheeks 1 which support a drum generally designated at 2.
  • the drum 2 comprises articulated elements 3 each comprising two parts 4 in the form of bars. Two parts 4 of the same articulated element 3 are connected together in an articulated manner in the manner of a compass by an articulation means comprising elastic members 5 fixed at the ends opposite two associated parts 4. The opposite end of the parts 4 is connected to the cheeks 1 by articulation means comprising elastic members 6.
  • the elastic members 5 and 6 are rubber or elastomer pads each comprising an elongated central body 7 and two hemispherical bearing heads 8 produced in one piece with the central body 7, the flat parts hemispherical heads being turned towards the cylindrical central body 7.
  • the parts 4 are hollow and have an outer wall in cylinder portion 9, end walls 10 perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the parts 4 and side walls 11 arranged in corresponding planes to radial planes of the drum when the latter is in the position of use.
  • the end walls 10 of the parts 4 and the cheeks 1 have passage orifices 12 (FIG.
  • the cylindrical body 7 of the rubber studs has, at rest, a length l slightly less than the thickness E of two associated walls so that the cylindrical body 7 is in tension even when two associated parts 4 are aligned as illustrated in FIG. 3, so that the end faces of the parts 4 are pressed against the facing surface and provide stability for the articulated members 3 when the reel is in the position of use.
  • the cheeks 1 further comprise crowns 13 projecting towards the inside of the drum and the parts 4 comprise positioning lugs 14 which extend into an orifice 15 of the associated wall for a position use of the drum.
  • the protruding crowns 13 are arranged so that the ends of the parts 4 adjacent to the cheeks are arranged to bear on these crowns for a position of use of the reel. In this position, the side walls 11 of the parts 4 bear on each other so that all of the parts 4 form a vault forming the drum 2 which rests on the projecting crowns 13 thus preventing the drum 2 from sliding. relative to the cheeks 1 in a direction parallel to the cheeks 1. On their sides the positioning lugs 14 which cooperate with the cheeks 1 prevent sliding of the drum 2 relative to the cheeks 1 in a tangential direction of the drum 2 so that the this avoids subjecting the elastic members 6 to shearing forces both radially and in a direction tangential to the drum 2.
  • the reel When a cable is wound on the drum 2, the reel therefore forms a rigid assembly adapted to support the weight of the cable and if the reel cheeks receive a shock, the deformation of the reel is absorbed by the elastic members without damaging them and the tension of the elastic members s which results from this deformation tends to bring the cheeks in support on the end faces of the drum 2.
  • the flexibility of the elastic members makes it possible to slightly push one of the articulated elements 3, which makes the immediately adjacent articulated elements protrude outwards and makes it possible to grasp the 'one of them and pull it outward as illustrated in Figure 4.
  • the outer edge 16 of the ends of the parts 4 adjacent to the cheeks rests on the cheek 1 while the inner edge 17 is supported on the crown 13 and the inner edges 18 of the ends of two opposite parts 4 are supported one on the other to allow pivoting of the parts 4 until they reach a storage position where they extend in a direction parallel to the cheeks.
  • the central part of the elastic members extends parallel to the end wall of the corresponding part 4 and exerts on it a force which tends to press the part 4 against the cheek 1.
  • the reel is thus metastably maintained in the storage position. To return it to the position of use, it is sufficient to separate the cheeks 1 until the parts 4 switch of their own accord to the position of use.
  • FIG. 6 illustrates another embodiment in which the elastic members 5 and 6 comprise rubber bracelets.
  • the end walls 10 of the parts 4 have notches 19.
  • the rubber bracelets 5 which join two opposite ends of the parts 4 are engaged in the notches 19 while maintaining the bracelets in a form annular while the bracelets 6 ensuring the connection between one end of a part 4 and a cheek 1 are folded back on themselves, the two adjoining strands being engaged in the notches 19 of a part 4 while the loop-shaped ends 20 thus produced are engaged in openings 21 of the cheeks 1 and are retained on the outside of the cheeks 1 for example by means of a rod engaged in the loops 20 or by providing on the cheeks 1 of the lugs projecting outwards on which the loops 20 are engaged.
  • the drum comprises reinforcing and locking members extending axially inside the drum and ensuring an elastic connection tending to bring the cheeks towards one another.
  • the reinforcing and locking members comprise steel cables 22 disposed axially inside the drum 2 and equipped with support pieces 23 which are supported on annular pads 24 of rubber or elastomer disposed in cavities 25 provided in the cheeks 1.
  • the annular pads 24 have a diameter greater than the support pieces 23.
  • the cavity 25 has an internal diameter substantially equal to the external diameter of the elastic pad 24 and the bottom of the cavity 25 has an opening 26 having a size close to or greater than the dimension of the head 23 so that the pad 24 can momentarily flow through the opening 26, which minimizes the tensile stress to which the cable 22 is subjected.
  • the first embodiment of the reinforcing and locking member has been illustrated in the form of a single cable disposed along the axis of the reel, one can provide several reinforcing and locking cables distributed evenly around the axis of the reel. In the embodiment of FIG. 9, it is of course necessary to provide as many cables 27 as there are articulated elements 3 constituting the drum 2.
  • an elastic pad may be provided in any other material, for example in knitted steel wire and compressed, provision can also be made to fix the ends of the cable 22 to elastic discs, for example in the center of the spring steel discs having an outer edge embedded in the cheeks 1.
  • articulation means comprising elastic members
  • articulation means comprising hinges

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  1. Zusammenklappbare Kabeltrommel mit Seitenteilen (1), die mit einer Trommel (2) verbunden sind, welche gelenkige Elemente (3) enthält, die jeweils zwei Teile (4) haben, die über Gelenkmittel (5, 6) an den einander zugewandten Enden miteinander und an den voneinander abgewandten Enden mit den Seitenteilen (1) verbunden sind, wobei die Gelenkmittel derart ausgebildet sind, daß die Teile (4) der gelenkigen Elemente (3) in einer betriebsbereiten Stellung der Kabeltrommel im wesentlichen miteinander fluchten und im wesentlichen senkrecht zu den Seitenteilen (1) stehen, und daß sie in einer Lagerstellung der Kabeltrommel in eine Richtung im wesentlichen parallel zu den Seitenteilen (1) umgeklappt sind, und wobei die Teile der gelenkigen Elemente Seitenflächen (11) haben, die in einer betriebsbereiten Stellung der Kabeltrommel aneinanderstoßend entlang radialer Ebenen der Trommel angeordnet sind, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß sie mindestens ein Verstärkungs- und Verriegelungselement (22, 27) enthält, das sich axial im Inneren der Trommel erstreckt und eine elastische Verbindung gewährleistet, durch die die Seitenteile (1) aufeinanderzugedrängt werden.
  2. Zusammenklappbare Kabeltrommel nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß das Verstärkungs- und Verriegelungselement ein elastisches Seil (27) umfaßt, das an den Enden der Teile der gelenkigen Elemente befestigt ist, um auch die Funktion eines Gelenkmittels zum Verbinden der Teile (4) der gelenkigen Elemente mit den Seitenteilen zu erfüllen.
  3. Zusammenklappbare Kabeltrommel nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß das Verstärkungs- und Verriegelungselement ein Seil (22) umfaßt, das mit den Seitenteilen über elastische Verbindungselemente (24) verbunden ist.
  4. Zusammenklappbare Kabeltrommel nach Anspruch 3, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß sich das Verstärkungs- und Verriegelungselement (22) durch Durchgangsöffnungen (26) in den Seitenteilen erstreckt, daß an seinen Enden Rückhalteelemente (23) vorgesehen sind, und daß die elastischen Verbindungselemente ringförmige elastische Stopfen (24) umfassen, die zwischen den Rückhalteelementen (23) und den Seitenteilen (1) vorgesehen sind.
  5. Zusammenklappbare Kabeltrommel nach Anspruch 4, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die ringförmigen elastischen Stopfen (24) einen größeren Durchmesser haben als die Rückhalteelemente (23), und daß die Durchgangsöffnungen (26) der Seitenteile (1) einen Durchmesser haben, der annähernd gleich dem Durchmesser der Rückhalteelemente oder größer als dieser ist.
  6. Zusammenklappbare Kabeltrommel nach Anspruch 5, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Seitenteile (1) Hohlräume (25) haben, in denen die ringförmigen elastischen Stopfen (24) angeordnet sind, wobei die Außenabmessung der ringförmigen elastischen Stopfen (24) im wesentlichen gleich der Innenabmessung der Hohlräume (25) ist.
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