Coreless auger manufacture

Abstract

A method is provided for the handling of coreless auger produced by an auger production machine from which the coreless auger emerges with a linear motion component and a rotational motion component. The method includes guiding the rotating auger for linear movement away from the production machine toward a temporary storage facility that has a cylindrical receptacle rotatable about its own axis and a coaxial rotatable feed guide having an axial inlet for formed auger and an outwardly directed outlet for directing formed auger toward an inner periphery of the cylindrical receptacle; rotating the cylindrical receptacle and allowing the feed guide to rotate about the axis of its inlet that is roughly coincident with the axis of auger entering the axial inlet of the feed guide such that the outwardly directed outlet may move around the interior of the receptacle in a circular path to direct auger toward the inner periphery of the cylindrical receptacle and form a coil thereof. The cylindrical receptacle is rotated at a speed selected to counteract the rotation of the auger about its own axis.

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