Apparatus for winding wire or other elongate material
AssigneeBICC Limited
InventorEdward Owen Jones
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Abstract
Wire emerging from a manufacturing plant, e.g., an enamelling installation, is continuously wound on a succession of reels. Reels are positioned alternately in two fixed positions and driven by torque motors. At any convenient time during the filling of one reel, the wire is looped round an empty reel in the other position and it is driven by a torque motor only sufficiently to overcome windage and other frictional forces, so that the wire controls the speed of the empty reel. When the first reel is full, the wire is cut and thereupon wound on the empty reel, the torque applied by the motor being suitably increased. A mixed sequence of reels with different barrel diameters, and including some with tapered barrels if desired, can be used.
Claims7
Wire-winding apparatus comprising:
- means for supporting a pair of reels in fixed positions;
- means comprising a respective torque motor for driving each said reel to rotate about its axis;
- means for guiding a wire to pass at least partially round a reel in one of said fixed positions and thence on to a reel in the other of said fixed positions;
- means for cutting a length of said wire extending between a pair of reels when supported in said positions;
- co-acting with said cutting means, means for engaging the said length of wire to cause it to be cut by said cutting means and for guiding a leading cut end of said wire to the said reel in the said first position;
- and means for adjusting the torque of each said motor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.