Mobile apparatus for reeling surface type fastener tapes or like elongate strips of flexible material

Abstract From the Canadian patent

At least one, preferably two or more reels are coaxially, mounted on a carriage such as a handcart for rotation independently of each other in order to wind surface type fastener tapes or like strips to be transported from one processing station to another. Disposed in a preassigned position a driving and braking mechanism, comprises a plurality of carrier arms each medially pivoted on a fixed support for oscillation about an axis parallel to the axis of the reels. Each carrier arm has a drive roll and a brake mounted on its opposite ends. As the carrier arm is oscillated as by a fluid actuated cylinder, the drive roll and the brake roll are alternately movable into and out of frictional …