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PROCESSES

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Involving registration of material

3

Involving lateral registration

4

Involving plural feeding means

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Involving stripping from conveyer

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By engaging material modifications

7

By fluid current

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Intermittently or interruptedly

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CONTROL MEANS RESPONSIVE TO INDICIA CARRIED BY AUXILIARY RECORD (E.G., TAPE OR CARD)

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WITH MATERIAL-RESPONSIVE CONTROL MEANS

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Responsive to break or depletion

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For threading device

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For flywheel

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For festooner

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To position material laterally

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With control of longitudinal movement

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By roller pair engaging web margin

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By shiftable material support

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Laterally movable support

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Responsive to photocell detection

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Pivotally mounted roller

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Responsive to pneumatic detection

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Responsive to material-contacting element

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To regulate longitudinal movement of material

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Responsive to overload

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Responsive to weight of accumulation

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Registration

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Of continuously moving material

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By means to vary speed of material momentarily

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By means to vary speed of feed roll

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By ancillary power source

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By means to change feeding movement of intermittent feed stroke

33

By means to discontinue movement of material

34

By means to vary engagement of feed means with material

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Feed means moved out of engaging position

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By ancillary feed means

37

By disconnectable connection in drive train

38

By means to retard material movement

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By material contact

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By variable-ratio transmission

41

Coaxially shiftable pulley cones

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By variable speed power source

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To stop and/or start movement of material

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Responsive to dancer detector

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Detector means

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WITH INTERLOCK MEANS

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And means to initiate operation of part

48

WITH RANDOMLY ACTUATED STOPPING MEANS

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SELECTIVELY REVERSIBLE MATERIAL MOVER

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By optional moving means

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By optional drive trains

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MEANS TO ENGAGE LONGITUDINALLY SPACED MODIFICATIONS IN MATERIAL

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Such means produces the modifications

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Alternately selectable prongs

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Prong operable intermittently to prevent longitudinal material movement (e.g., registration pins)

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With means to disable restraining operation of prong

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With positive actuator to project and to retract prong

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With resilient means to urge prong toward material

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With additional means to restrict material movement

60

Fluctuation damping means

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By flywheel

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Reciprocating or oscillating claw or finger

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Serial sequentially operated claws

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With means to change path or extent of claw movement

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Range changer

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To stop material movement

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On longitudinally reciprocated carrier

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Claw pivotable on carrier

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On two rotated carriers

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On carrier pivoted about a fixed axis

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Claw pivotable on carrier

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Claw radially slidable on carrier

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Claw slides on and pivots about fixed stud

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Pins on flexible belt or chain

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With means to effect supplementary pin movement

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Rotating sprocket (e.g., pin-wheel)

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For concatenated material

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Circumferentially opposite pins engage looped material

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With laterally adjustable sprocket(s)

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With means to disengage material from prong(s)

81

By supplementary movement of prong(s)

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With means to retain material on prong(s)

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Retainer and sprocket relatively displaceable

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Roller retainer

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Roller retainer

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With additional means to support material

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Including detail of prong shape or construction

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WITH MEANS TO TEMPORARILY DEFORM MATERIAL LATERALLY (E.G., FOR STIFFENING)

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SHIFTABLE PART ALLOWING HAND LOADING

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With shiftable roller

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THREADING DEVICE

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With means to pull lead-end

93

WITH ADHERENCE OR ATTRACTION OF MATERIAL TO ADVANCING MEANS

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By electrostatic force

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By pneumatic pressure

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By adhesive nature of material

97.1

BY FLUID CURRENT

97.2

And web storage

97.3

Floating web

97.4

Vacuum jet for strand

100

WITH ALARM, SIGNAL, OR INDICATOR

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CONVERTIBLE

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COMBINED

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BY FESTOONER

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With means to shift girt with respect to festoon and conveyer

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With means to hold material on girt

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With means to feed girt to conveyer

108

PLURAL MATERIAL-MOVING MEANS

109

With plural paths for material

110

Alternately usable

111

With means to independently vary mover speed

112

Continuous feed from serial sequentially operated feeders

113

With bight former

114

With pivotal former-support

115

With intermittent material-mover

116

Including auxiliary material-mover for starting

117

And continuous material-mover

118.1

And intermediate storage

118.2

In a loop having a displaceable support

118.3

Where support is upheld by the material (e.g., dancer roller, etc.)

118.4

In a container

118.5

Having conveying means within

120

BY INTERMITTENT (INTERRUPTED) MATERIAL-MOVER

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Stored material-movement-derived energy provides moving force

122

With means varying the material speed during movement

123

Cyclical unequal movements

124

Comprising constantly rotated roll on reciprocating or oscillating carrier

125

Including material abutment

126

Movable with material

127

Manual material-mover (e.g., dispenser)

128

With means to clamp material during dwell

129

With means to limit increment of advance

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With means to disable operation of limit means

131

Time-controlled

132

Plural selectable limit means

133

With means to adjust limit means

134

Unicyclic mover

135

Plural means to select increments of advance

136

With means to adjust increment

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Adjustable feeder

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Operative-controlled, machine-powered adjustment

139

Adjustable feed increment

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By means to vary material-engagement of recessed roll

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By means to change length of feeder travel

142

Comprising variable-throw crank

143

With means to effect feed and retrograde movement

144

With overtravel preventer

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Intermittently acting

146

And retrograde movement preventer

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With retrograde movement preventer

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Unidirectionally rotating roll

149

Positively actuated to grip

150

By hydraulic or electrical means

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Yieldingly biased

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Comprising material-moving roll

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Recessed roll

154

With means to disengage roll from material

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Continuously rotating roll

156

Unidirectional

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Ratcheted roll

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Comprising reciprocating or oscillating material-mover

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With means to retard movement of advancer carrier

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On pivoted carrier

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With means to disable material-mover

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With means to move grip element into material engagement

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Comprising link positively connected to element

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Which link effects material-advancing movement

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Comprising camlike surface

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Which surface effects material-advancing movement

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With spring-biased grip element

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BY ORBITALLY TRAVELING MATERIAL-ENGAGING SURFACE(S)

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With start-facilitating means

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On endless belt or chain

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With cooperating surface

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Comprising endless belt or chain

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With gripper(s) mounted thereon

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With control or adjustment means

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To vary diameter of roll

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To vary bite of contacting pinch members

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Infinitesimally variable

178

To vary speed of material-advancer

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For shifting roll(s) axially

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For shifting roll(s) angularly

181

Comprising rotary pinch pair

182

Including radial material-engaging surface

183

Including means to ensure arcuate engagement

184

Tapered roll or bite

185

Including equal-diameter coaxial rolls

186

Yieldable bite

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Roll axis resiliently urged

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With drive means

189

Plural spaced apart rolls (e.g., guide rolls)

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Including details of roll or mount

191

Roll surface radially movable

192

And axially movable (e.g., centering rolls)

193

Irregular friction surface (e.g., roughened)

194

Bearing or support

195

WITH MEANS TO RETARD MATERIAL MOVEMENT (E.G., "TENSIONER")

196.1

PASSIVE GUIDE

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