Wire coil guiding device for wire treatment apparatus

Abstract

A device for guiding wire coils is provided at wire treatment apparatus, particularly a jet descaling machine, the device including a rotating horizontal carrier shaft having the coils of wires suspended therefrom and imparting to the coils rotative movement about the shaft to transport the coils relative to the jet descaling machine in a direction generally parallel to the axis of the carrier shaft. A guide disc device including at least one guide disc is positioned on both sides of the carrier shaft and the guide discs of each of the guide disc devices is freely rotatable about a rotational axis of the disc arranged to extend generally parallel to the direction of transport of the wire coils. The wire coil guiding device may be provided at the inlet side of the machine in order to retard or hold back the windings of a wire bundle suspended from the rotating carrier shaft as the wire is being introduced into the machine and, with respect to machines where the windings are to be again collected together to form a bundle at the discharge end of the machine, the wire coil guiding device may also be provided on the exit side of the machine.

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