Improvements in devices for taking up or absorbing cords or the like flexible bodies
306,659. General Electric Co., Ltd., Quance, F. G., and Freeth, T. C. Dec. 30, 1927. Cords, adjusting length of.-A device for taking up a cord, e.g. an electric conductor, between the ends thereof comprises a spool 2 provided with a pair of diametrically disposed apertures 15, 16, and a winding member 10 rotatably secured thereto and having an aperture 17 which can be brought into register with one of the apertures 15, 16 so that the cord which normally passes through the apertures 15, 16 can be engaged thereby.