Tape wrapping device with plural independently rotatable spool carriers
AssigneeStolberger Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
InventorRudiger Lange
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Abstract
A device for winding tape around a continuous strand of material, for example a cable, wherein two reels of tape (11, 12) are mounted on a rotating tape feed device (1) via individual reel carriers (13, 14) which rotate independently and coaxially with the strand of material, so that each empty reel of tape can be stopped, exchanged, and brought back into operation while the tape feed device (1) is still rotating. The tape can therefore be placed around the strand of material without the device being stopped. In order to change the reel of tape, it is only necessary to reduce the rotational speed of the tape feed device (1).
Claims14
A device for helically taping a continuous strand of material having a segment which extends along a straight path, the straight segment of the strand having a longitudinal axis, comprising:
- a machine frame;
- a hollow housing through which the straight segment of the strand extends, the housing being mounted on the machine frame for rotation about the longitudinal axis of the straight segment;
- first reel means for holding a first tape having a beginning end;
- first reel carrier means, on which the first reel means is mounted, for moving the first reel means along a path that encircles the longitudinal axis of the straight segment of the strand, the first reel carrier means being rotatable with respect to the housing;
- first guiding device means for guiding the beginning end of the first tape;
- first releasable coupling means for selectively coupling the first reel carrier means to the housing so that the first reel carrier means and the housing are rotatable in unison;
- first brake means for selectively fixing the first reel carrier means with respect to the machine frame;
- second reel means for holding a second tape having a beginning end;
- second reel carrier means, on which the second reel means is mounted, for moving the second reel means along a path that encircles the longitudinal axis of the straight segment of the strand, the second reel carrier means being rotatable with respect to the housing;
- second guiding device means for guiding the beginning end of the second tape;
- second releasable coupling means for selectively coupling the second reel carrier means to the housing so that the second reel carrier means and the housing are rotatable in unison.
- second brake means for selectively fixing the second reel carrier means with respect to the machine frame;
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- wherein the first and second releasable coupling means and the first and second brake means are selectively operable during rotation of the housing to permit a depleted reel means to be replaced while the device continues helically taping the strand.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.