Method of and apparatus for removing front and rear segments of rolled wire

Abstract

A method of and apparatus for removing front and rear segments of rolled wire or wire rod which, in the form of winding packages, is supplied to the apparatus (connected before a collecting device) and is subdivided by separating procedures into good windings and scrap windings. The windings, which are placed in a spiral or helical manner around a guide element and are moved parallel to the longitudinal extension thereof, are severed in the transition region between the scrap windings of the front segment and the subsequent temporarily retained or stopped good windings, and the further conveyed scrap windings are removed from the region of the guide element after a separating or dividing procedure; later, the good windings are separated in the transition region to the subsequent temporarily retained or stopped scrap windings of the rear segment, and are moved toward the collecting device before releasing the scrap windings and before the latter are divided or separated and removed from the region of the guide element. The apparatus comprises at least one separating cutter; a plurality of scrap cutters subsequently connected in the direction of movement of the winding packages, the cutting edges of the scrap cutters being pivotally arranged in the region of the windings with respect to a guide element which movably supports the winding packages in the longitudinal direction; and two stop elements arranged sequentially in the direction of movement of the winding packages, these stop elements being movable toward the guide element and between two adjacent windings.

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