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Class Number: 226 Class Title: ADVANCING MATERIAL OF INDETERMINATE LENGTH Subclass Subclass Number Title 1 PROCESSES 2 .Involving registration of material 3 ..Involving lateral registration 4 .Involving plural feeding means 5 .Involving stripping from conveyer 6 .By engaging material modifications 7 .By fluid current 8 .Intermittently or interruptedly 9 CONTROL MEANS RESPONSIVE TO INDICIA CARRIED BY AUXILIARY RECORD (E.G., TAPE OR CARD) 10 WITH MATERIAL-RESPONSIVE CONTROL MEANS 11 .Responsive to break or depletion 12 .For threading device 13 .For flywheel 14 .For festooner 15 .To position material laterally 16 ..With control of longitudinal movement 17 ..By roller pair engaging web margin 18 ..By shiftable material support 19 ...Laterally movable support 20 ....Responsive to photocell detection 21 ...Pivotally mounted roller 22 ....Responsive to pneumatic detection 23 ....Responsive to material-contacting element 24 .To regulate longitudinal movement of material 25 ..Responsive to overload 26 ..Responsive to weight of accumulation 27 ..Registration 28 ...Of continuously moving material 29 ....By means to vary speed of material momentarily 30 .....By means to vary speed of feed roll 31 ......By ancillary power source 32 ...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 35 ...Feed means moved out of engaging position 36 ..By ancillary feed means 37 ..By disconnectable connection in drive train 38 ..By means to retard material movement 39 ...By material contact 40 ..By variable-ratio transmission 41 ...Coaxially shiftable pulley cones 42 ..By variable speed power source 43 ...To stop and/or start movement of material 44 ..Responsive to dancer detector 45 .Detector means 46 WITH INTERLOCK MEANS 47 .And means to initiate operation of part 48 WITH RANDOMLY ACTUATED STOPPING MEANS 49 SELECTIVELY REVERSIBLE MATERIAL MOVER 50 .By optional moving meanss 51 .By optional drive trains 52 MEANS TO ENGAGE LONGITUDINALLY SPACED MODIFICATIONS IN MATERIAL 53 .Such means produces the modifications 54 .Alternately selectable prongs 55 .Prong operable intermittently to prevent longitudinal material movement (e.g., registration pins) 56 ..With means to disable restraining operation of prong 57 ..With positive actuator to project and to retract prong 58 ..With resilient means to urge prong toward material 59 .With additional means to restrict material movement 60 ..Fluctuation damping means 61 ...By flywheel 62 .Reciprocating or oscillating claw or finger 63 ..Serial sequentially operated claws 64 ..With means to change path or extent of claw movement 65 ...Range changer 66 ....To stop material movement 67 ..On longitudinally reciprocated carrier 68 ...Claw pivotable on carrier 69 ..On two rotated carriers 70 ..On carrier pivoted about a fixed axis 71 ...Claw pivotable on carrier 72 ...Claw radially slidable on carrier 73 ..Claw slides on and pivots about fixed stud 74 .Pins on flexible belt or chain 75 ..With means to effect supplementary pin movement 76 .Rotating sprocket (e.g., pin-wheel) 77 ..For concatenated material 78 ..Circumferentially opposite pins engage looped material 79 ..With laterally adjustable sprocket(s) 80 ..With means to disengage material from prong(s) 81 ...By supplementary movement of prong(s) 82 ..With means to retain material on prong(s) 83 ...Retainer and sprocket relatively displaceable 84 ....Roller retainer 85 ...Roller retainer 86 ..With additional means to support material 87 .Including detail of prong shape or construction 88 WITH MEANS TO TEMPORARILY DEFORM MATERIAL LATERALLY (E.G., FOR STIFFENING) 89 SHIFTABLE PART ALLOWING HAND LOADING 90 .With shiftable roller 91 THREADING DEVICE 92 .With means to pull lead-end 93 WITH ADHERENCE OR ATTRACTION OF MATERIAL TO ADVANCING MEANS 94 .By electrostatic force 95 .By pneumatic pressure 96 .By adhesive nature of material 97 BY FLUID CURRENT 100 WITH ALARM, SIGNAL, OR INDICATOR 101 CONVERTIBLE 102 COMBINED 104 BY FESTOONER 105 .With means to shift girt with respect to festoon and conveyer 106 .With means to hold material on girt 107 .With means to feed girt to conveyer 108 PLURAL MATERIAL-MOVING MEANS 109 .With plural paths for materiall 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 .With intermediate storage 119 ..By means to direct material in sinuous path 120 BY INTERMITTENT (INTERRUPTED) MATERIAL-MOVER 121 .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 130 ...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 137 .Adjustable feeder 138 ..Operative-controlled, machine-powered adjustment 139 ..Adjustable feed increment 140 ...By means to vary material-engagement of recessed roll 141 ...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 145 ..Intermittently acting 146 ..And retrograde movement preventer 147 .With retrograde movement preventer 148 ..Unidirectionally rotating roll 149 ..Positively actuated to grip 150 ...By hydraulic or electrical means 151 ..Yieldingly biased 152 .Comprising material-moving roll 153 ..Recessed roll 154 ..With means to disengage roll from material 155 ...Continuously rotating roll 156 ..Unidirectional 157 ...Ratcheted roll 158 .Comprising reciprocating or oscillating material-mover 159 ..With means to retard movement of advancer carrier 160 ..On pivoted carrier 161 ..With means to disable material-mover 162 ..With means to move grip element into material engagement 163 ...Comprising link positively connected to element 164 ....Which link effects material-advancing movement 165 ...Comprising camlike surface 166 ....Which surface effects material-advancing movementt 167 ..With spring-biased grip element 168 BY ORBITALLY TRAVELING MATERIAL-ENGAGING SURFACE(S) 169 .With start-facilitating means 170 .On endless belt or chain 171 ..With cooperating surface 172 ...Comprising endless belt or chain 173 ..With gripper(s) mounted thereon 174 .With control or adjustment means 175 ..To vary diameter of roll 176 ..To vary bite of contacting pinch members 177 ...Infinitesimally variable 178 ..To vary speed of material-advancer 179 ..For shifting roll(s) axially 180 ..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 187 ...Roll axis resiliently urged 188 .With drive means 189 .Plural spaced apart rolls (e.g., guide rolls) 190 .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 STATIC GUIDE 197 .Turning bar 198 .Resiliently urged 199 .Adjustable 200 MISCELLANEOUS