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AssigneeMaschinenfabrik Niehoff GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsThomas FALKNER, Stephan GORGELS, Markus RAAB
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The invention relates to a method for operating a braiding, winding or spiraling machine for braiding around, wrapping around or spiraling around a strand-like material, in particular a cable, with at least one elongate material strand formed from at least one elongate material fibre, in particular from at least one wire. In the method, a diameter of the strand-like material is measured and a feed rate of the strand-like material and/or a rotational speed at which the at least one elongate material strand moves about the longitudinal axis of the strand-like material is controlled by open-loop or closed-loop control depending on said diameter measured. A predefined degree of coverage of the strand-like material by the at least one elongate material strand can be kept substantially constant by means of an open-loop or closed-loop control of the relative feed rate of the strand-like material depending on the diameter measured.
A method for operating a braiding, winding or spiraling machine for braiding, wrapping or spiraling at least one elongate material strand, formed from at least one elongate material fiber, in particular from at least one wire, around a strand-like material, in particular a cable, wherein the at least one elongate material strand is rotationally fixed at least at one point to the strand-like material, the at least one elongate material strand is repeatedly guided around the longitudinal axis of the strand-like material and the strand-like material simultaneously always moved in the same direction substantially in the direction of its longitudinal axis such that the at least one elongate material strand takes on the shape of a coil looping around the strand-like material, wherein a diameter of a cross section of the strand-like material is measured substantially perpendicular to its longitudinal axis and a feed rate of the strand-like material and/or a rotational speed at which the at least one elongate material strand moves around the longitudinal axis of the strand-like material is controlled or regulated as a function of said measured diameter.
A braiding, winding or spiraling machine configured to be operated according to a method for braiding, wrapping or respectively spiraling at least one elongate material strand made from at least one elongate material fiber, in particular from at least one wire, around a strand-like material, in particular a cable,
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