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EP 0062025 B1 19841128 - DEVICE FOR WINDING STRAIGHTENED STEEL STRIPS

Title (en)

DEVICE FOR WINDING STRAIGHTENED STEEL STRIPS

Publication

EP 0062025 B1 19841128 (DE)

Application

EP 82890013 A 19820127

Priority

AT 140481 A 19810326

Abstract (en)

[origin: US4457149A] To permit a planar strip to be unwound from a reel, the strip to be coiled up has imparted to it a progressively decreasing curvature in a sense which is opposite to the longitudinal curvature of the coiled strip.

IPC 1-7

B21C 47/02; B21D 1/05; B65H 23/34

IPC 8 full level

B21C 47/02 (2006.01); B21D 1/05 (2006.01); B65H 20/34 (2006.01); B65H 23/195 (2006.01); B65H 23/34 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP US)

B21C 47/02 (2013.01 - EP US); B21D 1/05 (2013.01 - EP US); B65H 23/34 (2013.01 - EP US)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

BE DE FR GB IT SE

DOCDB simple family (publication)

AT 368044 B 19820825; AT A140481 A 19820115; DD 201857 A5 19830817; DE 3261314 D1 19850110; EP 0062025 A1 19821006; EP 0062025 B1 19841128; JP S57170345 A 19821020; US 4457149 A 19840703

DOCDB simple family (application)

AT 140481 A 19810326; DD 23843882 A 19820325; DE 3261314 T 19820127; EP 82890013 A 19820127; JP 4747382 A 19820326; US 35165082 A 19820224