Device for producing round brushes

An apparatus for manufacturing round brushes that include bristles clamped between two wire portions of a folded wire, comprising:

• a feed station and a subsequently arranged finishing station;
• the feed station having two opposed counter-brackets that are spaced apart from each other, a bristle feeding device and a rotatable gripper;
• the feed station being designed to bend a wire, which is transported into the feed station, transversely to a longitudinal direction of the wire between the opposed counter-brackets;
• the bristle feeding device being designed to feed bristles to the bent wire, and the rotatable gripper being designed to grasp the bent wire and twist the bent wire during the feeding of the bristles in order to anchor the bristles in the wire;
• the finishing station being designed to receive the twisted wire and to further twist the wire and cut the bristles on an outer end of the bristles;
• the finishing station having a finishing station gripper that can grasp a free end of the twisted wire;
• the apparatus having a rotatable base to which a plurality of rotatable grippers are attached and wherein, by rotating the base, the rotatable gripper together with the wire just twisted can be transferred from the feed station into the finishing station where the wire just twisted is grasped by the finishing station gripper, wherein the rotatable gripper can be put into rotation for the further twisting;
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• wherein a milling cutter or a knife is provided in the finishing station for cutting the bristles at the outer end.