Variable speed wire spooler
AssigneeArmco Steel Corporation
InventorHarold W. Stites
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Abstract
An improved hydraulically driven wire spooler for winding wire on spools at a uniform linear winding speed with means for manually adjusting base winding speed.
Claims10
In winding apparatus of the type having driving means for operating a pump, winding means responsive to said driving means for winding material in a coil on a spool, a displacement control valve for varying the speed of said winding means, a swinging arm adapted to contact the outer surface of said coil and to be movable therewith as the diameter of said coil increases, and a rotating shaft non-rotatably affixed to said arm, the improvement, in combination therewith, comprising:
- (a) lever means non-coaxially attached to said shaft;
- (b) slide means adjustably connected to said lever means;
- (c) speed control means operatively connected between said slide means and said displacement control valve;
- (d) means for adjusting the length of said speed control means;
- (e) a frictional dampening clutch attached to said shaft;
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- (f) adjustable sensing means activated by the rotation of said shaft,
- whereby a constant linear winding speed of said material may be maintained.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.