Patent ID: 8770510
Filing Date: 2014-07-08
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
1. A flange for use in a reel for supporting a wound flexible medium, the reel including a core defining a longitudinal core axis, the flange comprising: a plate member configured to engage the core and extending radially from the core toward an outer edge and having an axially inclined media engaging surface that extends in a first axial direction has the plate member extends radially outward, the plate member including a plurality of voids; a set of raised walls axially displaced from the plate member and extending over said plurality of voids and outward from the core; a set of connecting walls interconnecting a first raised wall of said set of raised walls and the plate member; wherein an axial distance between the plate member and the first raised wall at a first radial position proximate the outer edge is less than an axial distance between the plate member and the first raised wall at a second radial position radially inward of the first radial position.