US 6,546,852 B1Granted

Method and machine for packaging skeins, shaped as rings, of a flexible, elongated element

AssigneeSica S.P.A.

InventorsAndrea Mazzoni, Marco Mazzanti

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Abstract

A method for packaging skeins shaped as a circular ring of a flexible element of elongated shape, in particular a cable or a hose, wherein the turns are held unitarily to each other, comprises the following phases: sustaining the skein in overhang towards a binding station holding it by the clamping of opposite planar faces of the skein effected in correspondence with at least a first portion of the skein; binding the skein in correspondence with at least its second, free, portion which projects from the first held portion; rotating the skein around its own axis of symmetry by a predetermined angle with respect to the position of the skein in the previous binding phase; and binding the skein again in correspondence with its own rotated position. The invention further relates to a machine that realizes the method.

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Dependent claims

Machine for packaging skeins of flexible elements of elongated shape, each skein being shaped as a circular ring having opposite planar faces and an axis of symmetry and being constituted by an ordered succession of turns, said machine comprising:

a station for binding the turns;
and a feeding station provided with skein clamping means, wherein said clamping means comprise jaws shaped as circular sectors, which are able to rotate around an axis of rotation, said jaws holding one of the skeins by applying a clamping force to the opposite planar faces of a first portion of the skein while the skein is positioned so that the axis of symmetry of the skein corresponds at least approximately to the axis of rotation of said jaws and the opposite planar faces of a second portion of said skein extend beyond said jaws and are thus exposed, wherein said second portion of the skein projects from said jaws towards said binding station;
said binding station effecting at least one binding of the turns in correspondence with at least the second portion of the skein and effecting such bindings in appropriate phase relationship with rotations imparted to the skein by said jaws in said feeding station.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.