US3212531A - Transposing heads for use in the manufacture of transposed multiple strip conductor - Google Patents

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US3212531A
US3212531A US285462A US28546263A US3212531A US 3212531 A US3212531 A US 3212531A US 285462 A US285462 A US 285462A US 28546263 A US28546263 A US 28546263A US 3212531 A US3212531 A US 3212531A
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  • This invention relates to the manufacture of a known type of transposed multiple conductor of substantially rectangular cross-section, that is to say to the manufacture of a conductor built up of a plurality of component conductors of rectangular cross-section grouped together to form a composite conductor of substantially rectangular form in which the position of each component conductor of the group or, in the case of a composite conductor comprising a core conductor or group of conductors and an outer group of conductors, of each component conductor of at least the outer group, changes step-by-step along the length of the composite conductor so that each component conductor occupies every position in its group in turn.
  • Each component conductor will normally be a single wire of rectangular cross-section and will hereinafter be referred to as a wire, but it will be appreciated that the structure of the machine would be substantially the same if each component conductor were built up from two or more strips of rectangular cross-section possibly insulated from each other but operated on by the machine as a single conductor of rectangular cross-section.
  • Machines for manufacturing such transposed multiple conductors can be broadly divided into two types: a first type in which, if n is the number of wires subjected to transposition (i.e., ignoring any central rectangular core, consisting of one or more wires, not affected by the trans position), then a complete transposition is effected in 2/1 operations and a second type in which transposition is effected in 4n operations.
  • the second type of machine deals with conductors in which the number of wires as hereinbefore defined subjected to transposition is odd and has a cycle consisting of four operations: a first operation in which one outer stack is moved relative to the other outer stack through a distance equal to the thickness of one wire, a second operation in which a number of wires at one end only of the multiple stack equal to one less than the number of stacks is moved transversely, a third operation in which the other outer stack is moved, through a distance equal to the thickness of one wire, in the opposite direction to that in which the first outer stack is moved in the first operation, and a fourth operation in which a number of wires at the opposite end of the multiple stack equal to that operated on in the first operation is moved transversely.
  • the manufacture of such transposed multiple strip conductor accordingly usually involves a stranding operation in which the bobbins carrying the supplies of wire are caused to move in a circular orbit around the axis of a forming or closing die into which the wires are led and from which they are drawn off by a capstan or other appropriate haul-off device.
  • the bobbins are constrained to orbit with their respective axes held parallel to a fixed plane (for instance, a horizontal plane) containing the machine axis and the wires, instead of taking a true helical path as in the case of the wires of a circular conductor built up of circular wires, each travel round the conductor closing die axis in a path comprising a succession of short straight portions which are connected by fairly sharp bends involving a forcible bending of the wires at frequent intervals along their lengths, this latter operation having been effected in a transposing head by cam actuated fingers which exert sufficient lateral pressure on the appropriate wire or wires to bend it or them into place as they enter a stationary rectangular closing die.
  • a fixed plane for instance, a horizontal plane
  • My Patent No. 3,060,976 relates to an improved form of transposing head that is capable of being used for the manufacture of a range of transposed multiple strip conductors which differ as regards the number and size of the component wires of rectangular cross-section of which they are formed.
  • transposing head transposition of the wires of a multiple strip conductor comprising two neighbouring stacks of rectangular section wires or of an outer layer of rectangular section wires around a rectangular core in a multiple strip conductor is effected by means of four movable fingers having ends which are each adapted to engage one of the four component wires at the four corners of the multiple strip conductor. Each finger is mounted in one of a group of four carriers.
  • All of these carriers are capable of being lifted off their slide beds at their inner ends so as to pivot about their outer ends in the same sense, i.e., in a direction counter to the direction of transposition.
  • the fingers of one diagonal pair are mounted in their respective carriers so as to be longitudinally adjustable with respect to their carriers; the fingers of the other pair are mounted in their respective carriers so as to be adjustable laterally with respect to their carriers and each of the four fingers is adapted to be positively impelled along its slide bed towards the closing die axis and against the pull of its re taining spring by a rotatably driven ring cam acting on the carriers through means permitting adjustment of the lift imparted by the cam to each carrier to suit the height or width of the component wires to be transposed.
  • the distance between the ends of these fingers can be adjusted to an infinitely variable extent within limits to suit not only a variation in the stack height due to a change in the number of wires in the stack but also those due to changes in the thickness of the rectangular wires or strips in the stack.
  • Similar adjustment can be made of the distance in the direction of the height of the stack between the notched ends of that other pair of fingers.
  • My modified form of transposing head is for use in machines of the second type referred to above and instead of there being four carriers resiliently held on slide beds so as to be capable of rectilinear reciprocating motions and of pivoting about their outer ends, there are four carriers, each of which is at its outer end pivotally attached to a carrier base which is constrained to move in a rectilinear direction parallel to two of the four side walls of the closing die.
  • Each carrier base is spring biased in a direction away from the centre of the head and counter to the direction of movement imposed upon it by the rotating ring cam.
  • Links are provided for interconnecting the carriers and/or carrier bases in such a way that cam imparted inward movement of one carrier and its base designed to displace one stack of wires relative to the rest, or to displace one wire or one layer of wires transversely of the multiple stack, causes the finger mounted in the carrier to engage the appropriate part of an end of the stack, or the wire or layer of wires to be displaced, as the case may be.
  • the links also ensure that, during such cam-imparted movement of one finger, the next adjacent finger is caused to move outwards automatically to permit the transposition to take place instead of remaining until pushed aside by the stack, or by the wire or layer of wires itself.
  • FIGURE 1 is a view of the cover equivalent to the view shown in FIGURE 4 of our above-mentioned patent.
  • FIGURE 2 is an enlargement of part of FIGURE 1,
  • FIGURE 3 is a sectional elevation in the direction of the arrow on line IIIIII in FIGURE 1 and FIGURE 4 is a sectional elevation in the direction of the arrow on line IV-IV in FIGURE 1.
  • FIGURE 1 reference numerals are attached to the main parts only.
  • the cover comprises an annular end wall 3 with a circumferential extending wall 4 upstanding from its outer peripheral edge and projecting therefrom in the direction of the movement of the wire.
  • the wall 4 is adapted to make joint with the wall 2 of the base shown in FIGURES 1 and 2 of the specification of my abovementioned patent and is adapted to be secured thereto by studs extending through bolt holes 5 into correspnding tapped holes in the base.
  • the annular wall 3 of the cover is formed with four pairs of integral upstanding walls each comprising a thicker wall 34 and a thinner wall 35. Each pair of walls forms a channel of rectangular cross-section extending across the face of the annular wall 3. As will be seen from FIGURE 1, there are two vertical channels and two horizontal channels and the centre lines of these channels are not diametrically located with respect to the peripheral wall 4.
  • the two vertical channels are 01T- set one on each side of and equal distances from the vertical diametn'cal plane and the two horizontal channels are offset by equal distances from a horizontal diametrical plane, the horizontal channels being offset through a greater distance above and below the horizontal plane than the vertical channels are from the vertical plane.
  • each channel is a channel shaped carrier base 36, the cross-sectional shape of which can readily be seen from 4 FIGURE 3.
  • each carrier base 36 is mounted in a channel formed by walls 34 and 35 between two sets of crossed roller linear bearings such as are manufactured and sold by the firm of W. Schneeberger A.G.
  • Each bearing comprises a fixed part 37, 38 (FIGURE 2) at taached by screws such as 39 and 40 to the channel walls 34 and 35 respectively and a moving part 41, 42 (FIG- URE 2) attached by screws such as 43 and 44 to the carrier base 36.
  • the bearings are adjustable by means of studs 45 (FIGURE 2) passing through the walls 35.
  • the thicker side walls 34 of the channels support through needle roller bearings pivot pins 51 for rocker arms 52.
  • At one end of each rocker arm is an adjustable pin 53 adapted to bear on a button 54 in an upstanding part 36a of the corresponding carrier base 36 and at the other end is a freely mounted roller 55 which rides on the external surface of a ring cam in the base of the casing, that is the ring cam 23 described in the specification of my above-mentioned patent.
  • a U-shaped carrier 57 which is channel shaped in cross-section (as seen in FIGURE 3) is pivotally mounted on each of the carrier bases 36 by means of a tubular pivot pin 58 running in roller bearings within a bore in the carrier base 36.
  • the carriers 57 can pivot freely through a limited angle with respect to the carrier bases, the extent of their movement being limited by contact as at 59 (FIGURES 1 and 2) between the carrier and a wall of the carrier base 36.
  • the two vertically extending carriers 57 each support a finger 60 fitting in the channel in the carrier and held in the channel by a set screw 61 passing through a slot 62 in the finger into a threaded bore in the carrier.
  • a set screw 61 passing through a slot 62 in the finger into a threaded bore in the carrier.
  • each of the fingers 68 is formed with a notch on each side and it is the shoulder formed by one of these notches that engages the edge of the wire that is to be moved transversely across the stack.
  • the extremity 72 presses on the Wire being transposed to inhibit vertical separation of the wires.
  • the fingers 68 can be removed from the pivot pins 69 and turned over, to increase the range of adjustment of the position of the extremities 72 of the fingers with respect to the centre of the die aperture which is shown chain dotted at 73 in FIGURES l and 2.
  • the fact that there is a notch on each side of each of the extremities 72 ensures that the finger when properly adjusted functions in the same way after being turned over.
  • Each of the carriers 57 is formed at its inner end on one side with a lug 74, to which is pivoted a link interconnecting the carrier to one other carrier.
  • the links 75 are each coupled at one end to one of the horizontally moving carriers 57 and at the other end to one of the vertically moving bases 36.
  • each finger for displacing one stack of wires relative to the other stack is coupled by a link between the carrier of that finger and the carrier of the finger engaging the opposite end of the same stack, as described in the specification of my abovementioned patent, it is coupled by a link 75 between the carrier base to which the finger carrier is pivotally coupled and the carrier of the finger engaging the opposite end of the stack.
  • the advantage of this arrangement is that these links can be longer With the result that when the fingers to which these longer links are coupled are successively pushed over in a direction transverse to the length of these longer links to displace a wire from one stack to another, their lifts due to the restraint imposed by the longer links are less than in the head described in my above-mentioned patent.
  • annular plate 77 shown in situ in FIGURE 4 but removed in all other figures. It is secured to the upstanding walls 34 and 35 by bolts 78 fitting in threaded holes such as 79.
  • the main advantage of the modified form of transposing head in accordance with the present invention over the head which is the subject of my above-mentioned patent, is that the rocking and reciprocation motions of the carriers are segregated and wear of moving parts is reduced by arranging for the biasing springs to act on and in the direction of movement of the respective carrier bases with which they are associated. This also reduces wear on the pivoted fingers and the links connecting them for, when these are pushed over by force transmitted via the links, there is no spring force to be overcome.
  • a transposing head comprising (a) a rectangular closing die,
  • (j) links interconnecting the carriers and carrier bases in such a way that an inward movement of each carrier and its base imparted by the ring cam and designed to displace at least one wire relative to the rest causes the finger mounted in the carrier to engage the appropriate part of the multiple strip conductor.
  • a transposing head as claimed in claim 1 which comprises a group of positive adjustable stops limiting the movement of each carrier base under the action of the biasing means.
  • each carrier base is mounted in the head between two sets of crossed roller linear bearings.
  • a transposing head as claimed in claim 1 in which the extremities of the fingers which are laterally adjustable with respect to their carriers are notched to provide a shoulder which engages the edge of a wire or layer of wires to be transposed and a surface to engage that face of the wire which is parallel to the direction of transposition.

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