US 5,551,644 A · Method of and a device for winding a wire-like product on a flanged reel

Abstract

A method of winding a cable on a rotating reel by way of a guide at an angle of lag which is changed at both reel flanges through a position parallel with the flange to an opposite angle of lag when a cable turn comes into contact with the reel flange. To wind the cable turns more closely together at the reel flanges, the angle of lag is changed into the position parallel with the reel flange before the cable turn comes into contact with the reel flange. A device for applying the method in a cable winding machine comprises detecting devices supposed by the guide for detecting each reel flange and for changing the angle of lag of the cable to its parallel position before reversing devices detect the reel flange and reverse the direction of displacement of the guide with respect to the reel.

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Dependent claims

In a method of winding a cable on a flanged reel of a winding machine including providing a reel having at least one flange and rotatably supported on a support structure;

winding the cable onto the reel to form superimposed layers of adjacent cable turns between said at least one flange on the reel by a guide structure;
displacing the support structure and the guide structure relative to each other with a pitch corresponding to a thickness of the cable per one cable turn;
winding the cable on the reel at a first lag angle with respect to a point on the reel at which the cable runs beside a previously wound and adjacent cable turn on the reel;
and changing the first lag angle to a zero lag angle and then to a second lag angle opposite said first lag angle when another cable turn contacts the reel flange;
the improvement comprising:
changing the lag angle to zero before said another cable turn contacts the reel flange.

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A winding machine for winding a cable on a flanged reel comprising:

a reel mounted on a support structure for rotation about an axis of the reel, said reel having flanges at opposite ends thereof;
a cable guide for passing the cable onto the reel to form superimposed layers of adjacent cable turns wound between said flanges;
displacement means for displacing the support structure and reel relative to said cable guide in a first direction of movement at a pitch corresponding to a thickness of the cable per one cable turn, and at a first lag angle with respect to a point on the reel at which the cable runs beside a previously wound and adjacent cable turn on the reel;
first detector means for sensing one of said flanges and for reversing said first direction of movement of said support structure and reel when another cable turn contacts said one flange;
and
second detector means for sensing said one of said flanges and for changing said lag angle to zero before said first detector means reverses said first direction of movement.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Method of and a device for winding a wire-like product on a flanged reel

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Method of and a device for winding a wire-like product on a flanged reel

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