Tube accumulator SZ twisting machine

In a device for applying elements on a core in a ceander shape including:

• (a) a stationary cylindrical tube, through which the core is conducted;
• (b) a first perforated disc which is arranged at the beginning of the tube;
• (c) a second perforated disc at the end of the tube, the elements passing through said first and second discs, the pitch diameter of the said perforated discs being greater than the outside diameter of said tube, said first perforated disc being stationary and the second perforated disc adapted to oscillate about the tube with an angle of rotation of at most .+-.360.degree.;
• and
• (d) a twisting closer arranged immediately following the oscillating perforated disc, the metal wires being stranded on the core by means of the oscillating perforated disc, the improvement comprising:
• (e) with a pitch diameter of the perforated discs of at most 1.5 times the outside diameter (D) of the tube, the distance (l.sub.0) between the stationary and the oscillating perforated disc fulfills the condition:
• l.sub.0 .gtoreq.100(D.sup.2 /b)
• where D=the outside diameter of the cylindrical tube and b=the period of the ceander shaped twist of the metal wires.