Arrangement in a coil winding machine for a cable or a similar strandlike product

Apparatus in a coil winding machine for winding a strandlike product on a reel provided with flanges, comprising:

• a support stand for supporting the reel for rotation around an axis thereof;
• a guide for supplying the strandlike product to be wound on the reel to form superimposed layers of product turns wound adjacent to each other between the flanges of the reel;
• distribution machinery for displacing the support stand and the guide in relation to each other by a pitch corresponding to the thickness of the strandlike product per product turn;
• detectors for detecting the reel flanges and generating a signal responsive thereto, said detectors being coupled to the distribution machinery and the machinery being responsive to said signal to cause a reversal of displacement direction between the reel and the guide as the product turn contacts a reel flange;
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• movable measuring means for continuously detecting the thickness of the strandlike product and for controlling the distribution machinery so that the pitch of the product turns on the reel is varied in accordance with the thickness measurement of the measuring means, said detectors being arranged for mechanical displacement in a direction parallel with the axis of the reel in response to movement of said measuring means over a distance corresponding to the displacement of the measuring means from a determined thickness position due to deviations in the strandlike product thickness.