Wire spooler

A wire spooler, comprising a spool having end flanges, a motor arranged for rotating the spool, a lead-in pulley arranged for leading the wire onto the pulley between the end flanges, means for effecting between the spool and the lead-in pulley a relative reciprocatory movement that distributes the wire along the spool between the end flanges while it is being wound onto the spool, a wire tension controller having fixed pulley means and movable pulley means biased in a direction away from the fixed pulley means and arranged with the wire passing around both pulley means before it travels to the lead-in pulley, signal-generating means arranged for generating a measuring signal representative of the distance between the fixed pulley means and the movable pulley means, spool speed adjusting means arranged in dependence upon the measuring signal to regulate the spool speed in the sense to maintain said distance constant, and reversal point adjusting means for adjusting the reversal points of the relative reciprocating movement, the improvement comprising the combination of further signal-generating means arranged to detect periods when the lead-in pulley is within a fixed distance from a reversing point and to generate during such periods a signal preventing during such periods regulation of the spool speed in dependence on the measuring signal and to make possible transfer at the end of each such period of the final value attained by the measuring signal during the period to operating means for the reversal point adjusting means, said operating means being caused to be responsive to said final value of the measuring signal to change the reversal point by a distance proportional to said final value of the measuring signal in the sense to reduce wound wire profile deficits or excesses adjacent the spool end flanges.