US Patent Issued to INDIANA MILLS & MANUFACTURING on July 1 for "Web retractor with damper to resist spool rotation" (Indiana Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,187, issued on July 1, was assigned to INDIANA MILLS & MANUFACTURING INC. (Westfield, Ind.).

"Web retractor with damper to resist spool rotation" was invented by Douglas W. Bittner (Indianapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A damped web retractor may include a frame, a spool including a spool shaft rotatably mounted to the frame, wherein the spool is configured to couple to one end of a web such that the web wraps around the spool as the spool shaft rotates relative to the frame in a web take up direction and such that the web unwraps from the spool as the spool shaft rotates in a web pay out direction, and a damper operatively coup...