Donald R Taube

US Patent:

54961475, Mar 5, 1996

Filed:

Aug 12, 1994

Appl. No.:

8/289948

Inventors:

Donald R. Taube - Fort Wayne IN

Assignee:

Barrel Racking Systems, Inc. - Fort Wayne IN

International Classification:

B66F 918

US Classification:

414607

Abstract:

The invention is directed to an apparatus for lifting and moving a barrel. The apparatus includes a frame which can be connected to a fork lift, at least one support member pivotably connected to the frame for engaging and supporting the barrel, a power source for selectively moving the support member(s) from a substantially vertical to a substantially horizontal position and vice versa, and an apparatus for removably attaching to the bead of the barrel.

US Patent:

40333850, Jul 5, 1977

Filed:

Sep 2, 1976

Appl. No.:

5/720039

Inventors:

Donald R. Taube - Fort Wayne IN

Assignee:

Essex Group, Inc. - Fort Wayne IN

International Classification:

B21F 300
H02K 1504

US Classification:

140 921

Abstract:

An apparatus and method for placing magnet wire in slots respectively defined by the blades of coil transfer apparatus thereby to form a dynamoelectric machine field winding. The wire is pushed through a rotating nozzle having a dispensing exit which directs the wire along at least a first predetermined path having sections respectively aligned with the open ends of two of the slots whereby the wire is pushed into the two slots. The relationship of the rate of wire pushing to the nozzle angular velocity is selectively controlled to determine the size and shape of the predetermined path and hence the desired configuration of the resulting coil. In a preferred apparatus and method, the nozzle is rotated at alternately increasing and decreasing speeds while the wire is pushed at a constant rate to form a coil having an alternately increasing and decreasing the nozzle. The radial spacing of the dispensing exit from the rotational axis of the nozzle and the location of the rotational axis relative to the slots may also be selectively controlled. In the preferred apparatus, two nozzles rotating in synchronism with one another are employed to simultaneously direct two wires into diametrically opposite sets of slots defined by the blades of coil transfer apparatus arranged in a cylindrical array thereby to simultaneously form a first two coils of one like configuration and to subsequently form at least two additional coils of a different like configuration each serially connected to a respective one of the first two coils.