Fiber guide

A fiber guide for spooling fiber from an automatic coil winding machine onto a spool comprising in combination:

• a rigid body having a generally arcuate opening and comprising two similar sections held together with a gap between the sections;
• two parallel strands of wire tightly stretched across the arcuate opening of the arc and anchored;
• a spool for receiving the fiber from between the wire strands;
• a guide pulley rotatably mounted on a guide pulley shaft, the guide pulley shaft being carried by the body, the guide pulley rotating on the shaft to guide the fiber from the winding machine onto the spool via the space between said wire strands;
• guide pulley bearing means on the shaft for rotatably supporting the guide pulley;
• adhesive means for fixing the bearing means in a predetermined position to locate the pulley guide to direct the fiber between the strands;
• and,
• means for connecting the winding machine and said body.

A fiber guide and automatic coil winding machine combination for spooling glass fiber onto a spool comprising:

• a fiber guide comprising;
• a rigid body having an arcuate opening and comprising two similar sections held together with a gap between the sections;
• two parallel strands of wire tightly stretched across the arcuate opening of the arc and anchored;
• a spool for receiving the glass fiber mounted so it extends into the arc between the wire strands;
• a guide pulley carried by the body for guiding the glass fiber from the winding machine onto said spool via the space between said wire strands;
• and,
• an automatic coil winding machine,
• a pivotally mounted connection between the automatic coil winding machine and said body.