Patent ID: 7240872
Filing Date: 2007-07-10
Classification: B65H,G11B

Abstract:
1. A guide roller for guiding a tape having both edges at opposite ends thereof, said guide roller comprising a hollow cylindrical-shaped roller portion for guiding traveling of said tape, a pair of disk-shaped annular flanges, disposed at opposite ends of said roller portion, for controlling positions of the both edges of said tape, and a pair of bearings for rotatably supporting said roller portion, wherein each of said bearings has a bearing flange at one end thereof, said pair of disk-shaped annular flanges being made of material firmer than that of said hollow cylindrical-shaped roller portion, said disk-shaped annular flanges being mounted on an outer peripheral surface of said hollow cylindrical-shaped roller portion at opposite ends thereof, said disk-shaped annular flanges being retained by said bearing flanges on press-fitting said pair of bearings in said hollow cylindrical-shaped roller portion.