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US 11,364,528 B2Granted
Coiling head apparatus and system
AssigneeReel Power Licensing Corp.
InventorsChristopher D. Rekieta, Joseph Henry, David Lasswell, Earl Richardson, Robert Allen, Gary Donald Thompson
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Abstract
The present invention is an apparatus, system and method for a new and improved coiling head utilized in wrapping elongated materials, which may have a zero and or near zero gap between leaves thereby reducing and or elimination indentations in the coiled elongated materials.
Claims1
A coiling head for an automatic cut and transfer coiling machine comprising:
- at least two leaves having a bottom, a first side, a second side and a rounded top side wherein said rounded top has a first side having a tongue and a second side having a slot, wherein rounded top of said at least two leaves are adapted to selectively form a circumference for engaging elongated material, and wherein said circumference has a perpendicular axis;
- a cylindrical wedge having an axis along said axis of said circumference for engaging said elongated material, said cylindrical wedge is made to engage a spindle of said automatic cut and transfer coiling machine, and a conical outer surface adapted to engage said bottom of said at least two leaves;
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- wherein when said cylindrical wedge is a adapted to selectively push said at least two leaves away from said axis of said cylindrical wedge when pushed in one direction along said axis of said cylindrical wedge and to push toward said axis of said cylindrical wedge when pushed in opposite of said direction.
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