US 5,538,196 AGranted

Spindle coil winding machine

AssigneeBachi, Inc.

InventorsJames B. Auchincloss, J. Joseph Lawes, Terence S. Horler, Randall E. Jones

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Abstract

The coil winding machine is provided with a versatile headstock and spindle plate arrangement in which the headstock includes attachment mechanism and an opening for receiving a spindle plate which carries at one spindle and also includes attachment mechanism for engaging the attachment mechanism of the headstock. When the attachment mechanism of the spindle plates engages the attachment mechanism of the headstock the spindle carried by the spindle plates extends into the headstock and may be engaged by a conventional driving mechanism of the coil winding machine. The coil winding machine is also provided with a lower portion triple axis controller for controlling taping and deadpost mechanisms. The triple axes controller imparts vertical, sideways, and front-to-back motions to each of the taping and deadpost mechanisms for increased versatility to accommodate the increased versatility provided by the headstock and spindle plate arrangement.

Claims15

Dependent claims

A coil winding machine of the type usable to wind a wire onto a bobbin mounted on a bobbin spindle, the coil winding machine comprising in combination:

a machine body with an exterior, an inner chamber, a first portion and a first side on the exterior;
a wire tensioning device mounted on the body;
an eyelet bar mounted on the first portion of the body;
a spindle carrier support secured within the inner chamber of the body and comprising a support body, a spindle chamber, a spindle passage through the support body into the interior chamber, and a separable spindle carrier mount;
at least one spindle carrier including a spindle mount and at least one spindle for spinning the bobbin, the spindle mount having a first side and a second side, the spindle having a first end extending from the first side of the spindle mount and including an extension for holding the bobbin, and the second end extending from the second side of the spindle mount and including a portion to be driven to spin the bobbin, the spindle carrier being removably mounted on the separable spindle carrier mount of the spindle carrier support such that the second side of the spindle mount is adjacent the spindle carrier support and the second end of the spindle passes through the support body and into the interior chamber of the spindle carrier support;
and
a deadpost mechanism attached to the body of the coil winding machine;
the tensioning device being positioned on the first portion of the body;
and the eyelet bar, the spindle carrier support, the spindle carrier, and the deadpost being positioned on the first side of the exterior of the body,
whereby the wire may be passed through the tensioning device and the eyelet bar, past the spindle carrier support and spindle carrier and anchored to the deadpost mechanism.

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