US3005304A - Device for the production of lang lay wire cables - Google Patents

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US3005304A
US3005304A US678897A US67889757A US3005304A US 3005304 A US3005304 A US 3005304A US 678897 A US678897 A US 678897A US 67889757 A US67889757 A US 67889757A US 3005304 A US3005304 A US 3005304A
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  • the present invention relates to a device for the production of lang lay steel wire cable without producing a twisting strain. More particularly, the invention contemplates a cable winding machine of the type wherein the bobbins for the wire or strand material, the pull device comprising a spin head as well as a take-up reel and its frame rotate about individual axes during the laying operation.
  • a product produced in conventional manner may be without strain but the individual wires and strands will have a tendency of lying such as to have an irregular appearance and be more easily damaged in use.
  • the mutual rotation between the bobbins and associated pull device in conventional equipment is so adapted that the cable obtains the desired firm and even lay, the finished product will not be without strain.
  • lang lay cables having several advantageous properties compared with cross lay cable.
  • the lang lay cable is easier to handle and is less subject to wear and tear, the individual wires, as known, extending in the same direction as do the strands in the cable, whereby each wire has a substantial contact face against, for example, a wheel over which the cable runs. This contrasts with a corresponding cross lay cable, where the individual wires extend across the twist direction of the strands and thus have a very short contact face.
  • a lang lay steel wire cable without strain is obtained by rotating the spools or bobbins of a cable winding machine about a cable core somewhat slower than the associated rotatable pull device.
  • a rotational difference of 10-15%, preferably about 13% has proved to be convenient.
  • the product leaving the pull device thereby will have a firm and even lay but has an inherent strain.
  • This intermediate product leaving the pull device is led to an independently rotatable receiving reel frame in which a reel is journaled.
  • This device is rotated with a speed somewhat less than the rotational speed of the pull device, whereby the inherent strain of the intermediate product, due to the difference between the rotation rate of the bobbins and the pull device, is removed from said intermediate product, so that it is wound up on the receiving reel as a finished product having no inherent strain.
  • 1 is a source of power such as, for instance, an electric motor which via suitable transmission 2 rotates a drive shaft 3. From said shaft, rotational power is delivered to the various parts of the machine as is further described below.
  • a central bobbin frame 4 containing a bobbin 5 having a cable core is rotated by the shaft 3 via a transmission 7.
  • the side bobbin frames 4, of which only two are shown in the drawing are driven via transmissions 8 and "ice 9 and the change speedwheels or-gears 2'3 and 24.
  • the speed of rotation of the bobbin frames 4 about the cable core may be varied in relation to a rotating pulling device including frame 12 and rollers 13 and in relation to a frame 17 supporting a take-up reel 21.
  • the bobbin shafts 6 are so arranged that wires or the strands 10 are led linearly and in convergent manner from the bobbins to spinning head 11, where the wires or strands then are twisted in conventional manner.
  • the spun product is drawn through the spinning head 11 by means of the rollers 13 arranged in the frame 12 which the spun product leaves as an interme diate product 20.
  • the frame 12 is rotatable on a memher 1 4 and is driven by means of the transmission 15 and the gear wheels 25 and 26 which are operatively coupled to the shaft 3, from which also transmission 16 derives power which is delivered via gear assembly 16 to the rollers 13.
  • the pulling device including members 12 and 13 can be given the desired speed of rotation in relation to the bobbin frames 4 and the take-up frame 17.
  • Coaxial to member 14 is arranged the frame 17 which is independently rotatable and in which the receiving or take-up reel 21 is journalled.
  • the rotation of the frame 17 about trunions 18 is provided by a transmission 19 from the common drive shaft 3.
  • the rotation of reel 21, which takes up the finished product is provided by means of the transmission 27 via. an arrangement comprising a laying device for the wire rope on the reel 21 (not shown).
  • a braking device 22 controls through the intermediary of a transmission 29 the rotation of a centrally arranged shaft 28, and the relative rotation obtained between said shaft and the trunions 18 provides a drive through the intermediary of gear assembly 28' for the winding of the finished product on the reel 21.
  • the arrangement of the rotating bobbins 5 in the frames 4 and that of the frame 12 and rollers 13 with the spinning head 11 is conventional.
  • the improvement resides in the arrangement of the independently rotatable take-up reel device 17, 21 so that its speed of rotation is variable in relation to the speed of rotation of the pulling device including elements 12 and 13.
  • This improvement makes it possible for the intermediate product 20 leaving the pulling device to be subjected to a desired twist before being taken up by the device 17, 21.
  • the invention prescribes that the bobbin frames 4, 4' rotate somewhat slower than the pull device, so that the lang lay steel wire leaving the pulling device will have a firm and even lay, but will have an inherent strain.
  • a device for winding cable comprising a source of a cable core, bobbins rotatable about the core to lay wire thereupon, a rotatable pulling device for moving the core so that the latter is twisted along its length, a rotatable take-up device for receiving the twisted cable, and means to rotate the bobbins, pulling device and take-up device, said means rotating the bobbins slower than the pulling device to provide a strain in the wire and the take-up device slower than the pulling device to remove the strain.

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US3388543A (en) * 1964-12-22 1968-06-18 British Ropes Ltd Manufacture of wire strands
US3446001A (en) * 1967-01-02 1969-05-27 Oki Electric Cable Method of and apparatus for forming stranded cables by high speed tensile helicoid system
US3504487A (en) * 1967-03-22 1970-04-07 B & F Carter & Co Ltd Manufacture of bunched wire
EP0190871A2 (en) * 1985-02-01 1986-08-13 BRIDON plc Method and equipment for making stranded ropes
US4608817A (en) * 1984-05-21 1986-09-02 The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Single strand metal cord and method of making
US4715582A (en) * 1985-04-03 1987-12-29 The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. Method of winding optical cable on aerial wire
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US5239813A (en) * 1990-02-08 1993-08-31 Paul Troester Maschinenfabric Process and apparatus for sheathing cables formed of a plurality of conductors twisted together
US5540041A (en) * 1994-09-13 1996-07-30 Southwire Company Method of and apparatus for stress relieving multistranded cable
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US1882902A (en) * 1932-03-10 1932-10-18 Western Electric Co Cable forming apparatus
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US3388543A (en) * 1964-12-22 1968-06-18 British Ropes Ltd Manufacture of wire strands
US3371474A (en) * 1966-04-21 1968-03-05 Schlumberger Technology Corp Method and apparatus for forming armored cables
US3446001A (en) * 1967-01-02 1969-05-27 Oki Electric Cable Method of and apparatus for forming stranded cables by high speed tensile helicoid system
US3504487A (en) * 1967-03-22 1970-04-07 B & F Carter & Co Ltd Manufacture of bunched wire
US4608817A (en) * 1984-05-21 1986-09-02 The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Single strand metal cord and method of making
EP0190871A3 (en) * 1985-02-01 1987-08-05 BRIDON plc Method and equipment for making stranded ropes
EP0190871A2 (en) * 1985-02-01 1986-08-13 BRIDON plc Method and equipment for making stranded ropes
US4715582A (en) * 1985-04-03 1987-12-29 The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. Method of winding optical cable on aerial wire
US5239813A (en) * 1990-02-08 1993-08-31 Paul Troester Maschinenfabric Process and apparatus for sheathing cables formed of a plurality of conductors twisted together
WO1992004139A1 (en) * 1990-09-05 1992-03-19 W.S. Shamban & Company Coil spring take-up apparatus
US5540041A (en) * 1994-09-13 1996-07-30 Southwire Company Method of and apparatus for stress relieving multistranded cable
US20060151081A1 (en) * 2002-11-25 2006-07-13 Shogo Ueda Twisting machine, twisted wire manufacturing method, ply, and pneumatic tire
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