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

Method for packaging a skein shaped as a circular ring of a flexible element of elongated shape, wherein the turns are held unitarily to each other, comprising the following phases:

• sustaining the skein towards a binding station holding it by the clamping of opposite planar faces of the skein, said skein sustaining phase being made with skein sustaining in overhang towards the binding station, said sustaining phase being obtained in a feeding station and by means of a skein clamping effected in correspondence with at least a first portion of said skein and effected by a pair of parallel jaws vertically oriented between which the skein is housed;
• binding the skein, in correspondence with at least a second portion projecting from the first portion held, by connecting the turns together either with at least one ring for holding the turns of the skein which is oriented transversely to the skein turns intersecting the turns and concatenating therewith, or with a holding ring that holds the turns of the skein by wrapping the entire skein solely from the exterior;
• rotating the skein around its own axis of symmetry by an angle predetermined with respect to a preceding position of the skein in a previous binding phase, the skein being rotated by the jaws around a direction parallel to the axis of symmetry of the skein;
• and
• binding the skein again in correspondence with its own rotation position.