US3054570A - Wire packaging machine - Google Patents

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US3054570A
US3054570A US75966A US7596660A US3054570A US 3054570 A US3054570 A US 3054570A US 75966 A US75966 A US 75966A US 7596660 A US7596660 A US 7596660A US 3054570 A US3054570 A US 3054570A
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Maurice A Nye
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21C—MANUFACTURE OF METAL SHEETS, WIRE, RODS, TUBES OR PROFILES, OTHERWISE THAN BY ROLLING; AUXILIARY OPERATIONS USED IN CONNECTION WITH METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL
    • B21C47/00—Winding-up, coiling or winding-off metal wire, metal band or other flexible metal material characterised by features relevant to metal processing only
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    • B21C47/10—Winding-up or coiling by means of a moving guide
    • B21C47/14—Winding-up or coiling by means of a moving guide by means of a rotating guide, e.g. laying the material around a stationary reel or drum

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  • the present invention relates generally as indicated to a wire packaging machine and more particularly to a wire packaging machine by which a series of neat and compact packages or coils are produced from a continuous length of wire.
  • wire packaging art it is known to provide wire takeup or draw blocks and wire receivers that are relatively rotated at varying speed ratios so as to form convolutions of varying diameter, thereby tending to make the coils compact and neat.
  • neat packaging of wire involves the use of a complicated and expensive variable drive system and, moreover, it is possible only to form one coil at a time owing to the rotation of the wire receiver and, therefore, when the packages are used it becomes necessary to weld the trailing end of the wire from one package to the leading end of the wire of the next package thereby consuming extra labor and equipment and often requiring the shutting down of the drawing or like equipment at which the packages are payed off.
  • Neat and compact individual packages are also produced as by equipment disclosed in the Haugwitz Pat. No. 2,886,258 wherein the convolutions descending by gravity from a vertical takeup block are laid in helical progression on a platform by means of a slowly rotating eccentric arm disposed beneath the takeup block and above the wire loop receiver.
  • Packages of the type with which the present invention is concerned are also disclosed in the copending application of Jess C. Bittman, Serial No. 829,606, filed July 27, 1959, now Pat. No. 3,013,742, granted December 19, 1961 wherein the wire convolutions descending from the takeup block drop down onto a slowly rotating, tilted and offset receiver whereby the wire convolutions or loops are collected in circular progression to form neat and compact packages or coils.
  • the uniform diameter convolutions of wire descending by gravity from the takeup block are laid neatly and compactly in circular progression to form an annular package which is of outside diameter larger than the diameter of the individual convolutions.
  • a package thus formed is very compact in that it contains a great weight of wire in relation to its diameter and height and, moreover, with the present machine and method one package after another may be produced from a single continuous length of wire to thus satisfy the demands of high speed payoff operations without interruption.
  • Patented Sept. 18, 196 2 It is another object of this invention to provide a wire packaging machine wherein the wire loop receiving turntable is rotated in opposite directions about its tilted axis to build up the desired neat and compact package while sufficient slack is provided in the wire from the previously made package to accommodate such opposite direction rotation of the turntable, whereby any number of packages composed of a single continuous length of wire may be made up.
  • FIG. 1 is a top plan view somewhat diagrammatic in form illustrating the present machine and method with which and by which any number of coils or packages may be successively made from a single continuous length of wire;
  • FIG. 2 is a front elevation view of the machine shown in FIG. 1, except that the takeup block disposed above the tilted turntable has been omitted;
  • FIG. 3 is an enlarged vertical cross-section view of a preferred form of packaging machine, such section having been taken substantially along the line 3-3, FIG. 1;
  • FIGA is an elevation view of the lower portion of the machine as viewed along the line 44, FIG. 3.
  • the same comprises a head or housing 1 having a vertical tubular shaft 2 fixed therein with a sheave 3 at the top and with a swivel sheave 4 at the bottom.
  • the takeup block assembly 5 herein may be of conventional form mounted as a dead block on such fixed tubular shaft 2.
  • This takeup block assembly 5 may be of the type disclosed in the copending application of Jess C. Bittman, Serial No. 829,605, filed July 27, 1959, now Pat. No. 3,013,741, granted December 19, 1961 wherein a plurality of nested blocks have threaded engagement with the shaft 2 so that one or more of the outer ones may be screwed upwardly to expose an inner one of smaller diameter.
  • the fiyer assembly 6 Journalled on the fixed tubular shaft 2 is the fiyer assembly 6 which is arranged to be rotated about the axis of the takeup block 5 as by means of the belt' drive 7 from the speed reducer 8, which speed reducer, in turn, is belt-driven as at 9 by the electric drive motor 10 which is mounted in the head 1.
  • the fiyer assembly 6 is provided with a sheave 11, whereby as the flyer assembly 6 is rotated, the wire W passing over the top sheave 3, through the shaft 2, over the swivel sheave 4, and over the sheave 11 as shown, is wrapped on the takeup block at the beveled shoulder 14 thereof, whereby the convolutions will be progressively shoved upwardly until the top convolution clears the pressure roller 15 on the fiyer assembly 6 which holds the convolutions against the periphery of the block 5. As the flyer assembly 6 thus rotates, the successive top convolutions of wire W are free to continuously gravitate through the funnel-shaped guide 16 mounted on the arms 17 of the head 1 onto the top surface of the turntable 18.
  • the aforesaid funnel support arms 17 are also provided with accumulator fingers 19 which may be swung about vertical axes to position the fingers 19 in the path of descent of the wire convolutions from the takeup block 5, thereby to accumulate in the guide a number of turns of the wire W to permit removal of a completed coil or package from the turntable 18 preparatory to starting the next coil.
  • the fingers 19 may be swung out from under the convolutions of wire W accumulated thereon, whereby the hank of convolutions drops down to the turntable 18, the flyer 6 being operated continuously.
  • the turntable 18 herein may be provided with a roller conveyor 20 to facilitate removal of a completed coil supported on the platform 21 and around the coaxial core or guide means 22 thereof. In the operating position of the turntable 18 it has an axis of rotation which is offset from the axis of the takeup block and inclined from vertical as shown.
  • the inclination of the turntable 18 and the length of the guide means 22 is such that the upper end thereof is at a zone to be engaged by one side of the wire convolutions as they pass down from the takeup block 5 through the guide funnel 16. In this way the convolutions will slide down guide means 22 and thereby be displaced laterally to form a neat cylindrical package of diameter equal to twice the diameter of the convolutions minus the diameter of the guide means 22.
  • the turntable 18 is provided with a center shaft 24 by which it is driven as through an electric motor 25 and suitable gearing 26, at a very slow speed in relation to the speed of the fiyer 6.
  • the ratio of speed of the flyer 6 with respect to the speed of the turntable 18 may be on the order of 800:1. It has been found that in a machine employing a 4 HP. D.C. drive motor 16) for the flyer 6 requires only a H.P. DC. motor 25 to drive the turntable 18, even when a large coil of 2,000 lbs. weight is to be made.
  • the convolutions of diameter D engage the side of the guide means 22 and slide down therealong to build up on the coil support platform 21. Because the turntable 18 is rotating slowly, the convolutions will be laid in circular progression to produce a neat and compact coil which has an outside diameter E and an inside diameter F corresponding to the diameter of guide means 22.
  • a coil of 31 outside diameter E, 11" inside diameter F, and of 17" height when formed of 16 /2 gauge carbon steel wire has a Weight of about 1250 lbs.
  • the aforesaid 2000 lb. coil would have a height of about 40" and outside and inside diameters of 2 and 14" respectively, while the wire convolutions are of about 22 diameter D.
  • the turntable 18 and its support housing 29 are mounted on a horizontal pivot 30 for movement as a unit to position the top of the turntable 18 in a horizontal plane as by means of the pneumatic cylinder 31.
  • the member 32 carrying the horizontal pivot shaft 30 is adjustable to shift the turntable axis closer to, or farther away from, the vertical axis of the takeup block 5.
  • Said adjustable member 32 has an arm 33 which may be secured, as by the screw 34, at different positions.
  • the member 32 may be supported as on the rollers 35 of a member 36 fixed in the bottom of the floor well 37.
  • the machine herein may be provided with a suitable start-stop push button, a speed control device, and a suitable valve and piping for actuating the cylinder 31, these controls and the Wiring and piping diagrams not being shown herein since they may be conventional.
  • roller conveyor sections 41 and 42 on either side of the turntable 18 whereby a platform 21 and guide means 22 with a completed package may be shifted onto the conveyor section 41 and replaced by an empty platform 21 and guide means 22 from the other conveyor section 42 as best shown in FIGS. 1 and 2.
  • a completed package is thus shifted to the right, as viewed in FIGS.
  • the present method can be carried on indefinitely to produce any desired number of packages from a single continuous length of wire W and thus wire drawing machines, annealers, or other equipment to which the wire is supplied, may be operated for extended periods of time without necessity of periodic shutdown for package replacement or for welding of the trailing end of one package to the leading end of the next package.
  • a takeup block arranged to have wire coiled thereabout with the convolutions descending by gravity therefrom; a support for accumulating such convolutions in the form of an upwardly growing package; and means operative periodically to rotate said support in opposite directions about an upwardly extending axis that is offset with respect to the axis of the descending convolutions whereby the convolutions are laid neatly and compactly in circular progression on said support to form an annular package of outside diameter larger than the diameter of the individual convolutions and whereby successive packages may be formed from a single continuous length of wire by providing slack in the wire between the top of the previously formed package and the package being formed.
  • a wire packaging machine the combination of a fixedly mounted takeup block; a flyer mounted for rotation about said block and including wire guide means operative to wrap wire around said block to form convolutions which descend by gravity from said block; a support disposed at a level below said block for accumulating such convolutions in the form of an upwardly growing package; and drive means operative periodically to rotate said support very slowly in opposite directions in relation to the speed of said flyer about an upwardly extending axis that is offset with respect to the axis of the descending convolutions whereby the convolutions are laid neatly and compactly in circular progression on said support to form an annular package of outside diameter larger than the diameter of the individual convolutions and whereby successive packages may be formed from a single continuous length of wire by providing slack in the wire between the top of the previously formed package and the package being formed.
  • a wire packaging machine the combination of a housing; a vertical takeup block dependingly secured to said housing; a flyer journalled in said housing for rotation about a vertical axis and including wire guide means operative to wrap wire around said block to form convolutions which descend by gravity from said block; a support disposed beneath said block and flyer for accumulating such convolutions in the form of an upwardly growing package; and drive means operative periodically to rotate said support very slowly in opposite directions in relation to the speed of said flyer about an upwardly extending axis that is offset with respect to the axis of the descending convolutions whereby the convolutions are laid neatly and compactly in circular progression on said support to form an annular package of outside diameter larger than the diameter of the individual convolutions and whereby successive packages may be formed from a single continuous length of wire by providing slack in the Wire between the top of the previously formed package and the package being formed.
  • a receptacle is provided adjacent to said support to accommodate several convolutions of slack wire which alternately increase and decrease in diameter as said support is thus rotated in opposite directions.

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