Sequential twisting device

A cable processing machine for producing a predefined sequence of twisted cable groups, wherein the cable processing machine comprises:

• a cable tip processing system adapted to process a cable into a looped cable;
• a handling system;
• a twisting station;
• a control unit controlling the cable tip processing system, the handling system and the twisting station;
• wherein the cable tip processing system includes a processing unit, an ejection gripper, and a transport unit, the transport unit being adapted to move the looped cable from the processing unit to the ejection gripper, wherein the ejection gripper provides the looped cable to the handling system;
• wherein the handling system includes a transfer unit that receives a plurality of looped cables including the looped cable from the ejection gripper, the plurality of looped cables forming a looped cable group, and
• wherein the handling system feeds the looped cable group to the twisting station;
• wherein the twisting station receives and twists the looped cable group to form a looped twisted cable group;
• wherein the control unit assigns a respective multiplicity of cables for each of the twisted cable groups of the predefined sequence and controls the cable processing machine such that, for each of the cables, the cable is formed by the processing unit as a looped cable, the looped cable is moved by the transport unit from the processing unit to the ejection gripper, the ejection gripper provides the looped cable to the handling system where the looped cable is received by a transfer unit, the transfer unit supplies the looped cable with other looped cables to the twisting station wherein the looped cables are twisted to form one of the twisted cable groups as a looped twisted cable group, and the handling system then feeds the looped twisted cable group to a following station according to the predefined sequence.