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Title: Apparatus producing constant cable tension for intermittent demand

Patent ·
OSTI ID:6062967

This invention relates to apparatus for producing constant tension in cable or the like when it is unreeled and reeled from a drum or spool under conditions of intermittent demand. The invention is particularly applicable to the handling of superconductive cable, but the invention is also applicable to the unreeling and reeling of other strands, such as electrical cable, wire, cord, other cables, fish line, wrapping paper and numerous other materials.

DOE Contract Number:
AC03-76SF00098
Assignee:
Dept. of Energy
Application Number:
ON: TI85006434
OSTI ID:
6062967
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English