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POWER CORD SLACK TAKEUP REEL

  • US 3,782,654 A
  • Filed: 09/13/1971
  • Issued: 01/01/1974
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/13/1971
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. Apparatus for taking up slack in electric power cords and the like, comprising a housing in which the slack in the cord is to be wound, said housing comprising a one piece length of semirigid, flexible plastic conduit of generally rectangular crosssection having substantially parallel upper and lower walls separated by two opposed side walls, the space between said upper and lower walls being of a dimension only slightly greater than the width of the cord, each said upper and lower wall having a centrally located aperture therein, a shaft extending through said apertures and rotatably supported in said housing, said shaft having a larger diameter than said apertures except for a pair of spaced annular grooves therein that releasably engage said upper and lower walls at said apertures, said shaft having a slot therein for receipt of the power cord intermediate its length and within said housing, said plastic housing being capable of inwardly directed manual flexure to deform said upper and lower apertures whereby at least one of said upper and lower walls may be disengaged from said shaft and the dimension between the upper and lower walls increased to permit threading of the cord through said slot in said shaft and out of the housing with the disengaged wall then being reconnected to said shaft, and means for rotating said shaft to wind the threaded power cord thereabout, said upper and lower walls being operative dimensionally to guide said cord into a coil of concentric turns about said shaft.

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