Patent ID: 7536763

Claim:
Apparatus for installing a core adapter in a roll core, the apparatus comprising: (a) a mandrel having an outside diameter slightly less than an inside diameter of a hollow cylindrical sleeve of the core adapter; (b) a rod having an inward end coupled to an outward end of the mandrel; (c) a stop flange mounted on the rod around the outward end of the mandrel; (d) a drive flange mounted on the rod and displaceable along the rod toward the stop flange; (e) a plurality of apertures in the stop flange, any one of the stop flange apertures coaxially alignable with any one of a corresponding plurality of longitudinal apertures formed through the sleeve of the core adapter; (f) a plurality of wedge-tipped bars, each bar having: (i) an inward tip insertable through one of the stop flange apertures into a corresponding one of the longitudinal apertures of the core adapter; and (ii) an outward end driveable by the drive flange.