Wire coiling machine

A wire coiling machine comprising:

• a frame,
• a wire bundling means mounted on said frame and including
• a rotatable coil forming capstan,
• a rotatable accumulator drum mounted below said capstan in axial alignment therewith and including movable normally extended support fingers for accumulating wire coils that come from said continuously rotating capstan,
• means for retracting said movable normally extended support fingers, whereby the accumulated wire coils are free to fall down;
• a wire cutting assembly disposed at the level where deposition of wire coils in a bundle is terminated and including
• a percussion cutter unit mounted on said frame for rotation around a vertical axis,
• an anvil associated with said wire bundling means for rotation around the axis of rotation of the same wire bundling means and having a surface of revolutions for taking an impact load from said cutter unit when the wire is cut at the instant a bundle of wire coils has been deposited;
• means for establishing a fixed rotational ratio between said capstan and said accumulator drum, whereby wire coils of a desired size are invariably formed.