Guitar string manufacturing auto start winding process
OwnerJeffrey E. Landtroop, Donald A. Dykstrainventors
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Abstract
The improved musical string includes a prior art core wire assembly including a core wire and a terminal end. The cover wire has an end portion that is bent around the terminal end portion of the core wire, and the cover wire is then wound the core wire to form the musical string. The improved cover wire winding machine includes a headstock with a rotatable spindle and a core wire terminal end mounting hook. A cover wire mounting sleeve is slidably and rotatably engaged to the spindle and functions to mechanically engage an end of the cover wire and to bend it into engagement with the core wire terminal end following engagement, the cover wire is wound around the core wire to produce the improved musical string.
Claims12
A musical string comprising:
- a core wire assembly including a core wire and a terminal end portion;
- a cover wire being wound around said core wire, said cover wire having an end portion that is bent around said terminal end portion of said core wire.
An improved musical string cover wire winding machine, comprising:
- a headstock having a rotatable spindle mounted therein;
- said spindle including a core wire terminal end mounting device;
- a tailstock having a core wire engagement chuck mounted thereto;
- a cover wire winding carriage being movably mounted between said headstock and said tailstock;
- a cover wire mounting sleeve being engaged to said spindle and functioning to mechanically engage an end of said cover wire and to bend said cover wire end into engagement with said core wire terminal end.
A method for winding a cover wire around a core wire, including the steps of:
- forming a cover wire having a terminal end portion thereof;
- bending an end portion of a cover wire around said terminal end portion of said core wire;
- winding said cover wire around said core wire.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.