US3735938A - Apparatus and method for winding wire on coils - Google Patents

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US3735938A
US3735938A US00161822A US3735938DA US3735938A US 3735938 A US3735938 A US 3735938A US 00161822 A US00161822 A US 00161822A US 3735938D A US3735938D A US 3735938DA US 3735938 A US3735938 A US 3735938A
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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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    • B21C47/14—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 apparatus includes a wire wind- [30] Foreign Application Priority Data ing device and a coil reception device.
  • Means are prol 20 970 F 7 7026615 vided for maintaining an axial force on the end of the u y tame coil disposed on the wire winding device and a support means for maintaining an axial force on the other end (SI. of the coil disposed on the Coil reception device.
  • Field of the Invention THe present invention relates to winding wire on coils and more particularly to an apparatus and method for winding large coils of metal wire at high speeds.
  • a first type of device employed involves a die turning around a fixed drum with a horizontal axis.
  • a second type of device consist of asuspended winding-drum which turns around a vertical axis. The windings formed by both types of devices fall around a reel due to the effect of gravity.
  • the apparatus of the second type is generally preferred when a wire is employed which cannot stand any torsion during manufacturing.
  • the reel is rotated around its axis synchronously with the windingdrum.
  • the conventional apparatus of this second type has the disadvantage of having a low winding speed.
  • the windings formed deviate more and more from the winding-drum under the action of the centrifugal force and fall down around the reel in a disordered way. Further, they may cause a lack of balance in the mechanical equipment with a very disturbing noise in the workshop. This disadvantage may partially be eliminated by means of a sliding plate within the reel.
  • SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION THe present invention is embodied in an apparatus adapted to wind a wire into a coil, which comprises wire winding means adapted to wind a coil of wire, coil reception means adapted to'receive the coil of wire from the wire winding means, means associated with the wire winding means for maintaining an axial force on on end of the coil, support means associated with the wire reception means for maintaining an axial force on the other end of the coil, operating means associated with the wire reception means to provide movement of the support means to release the axial force on the other end of the coil to thereby cause movement of the coil on the coil reception means, and actuating means associated with said wire winding means to activate the operating means in response to an incrase in the axial forces on the coil.
  • the method of the present invention involves the steps of winding a wire into a coil on a wire winding means, passing the coil as it is formed from the wire winding means to a coil reception means, maintaining an axial force on one end of the coil on the wire winding means, maintaining an axial force on the other end of the coil on the coil reception means, detecting an increased axial force on the coil as the wire is wound on the wire winding means, and releasing the axial force on the other end of the coil in response to the detecting step to thereby permmit movement of the coil from the wire winding means on the coil reception means.
  • An object of the present invention is to provide an improved method and apparatus for winding wire into a coil at high winding speeds.
  • a further object of the present invention is to provide an improved method and apparatus for winding wire into large coils of relatively great weight.
  • FIG. 1 is an elevational view in partial cross-section showing an installation incorporating an apparatus in accordance with the present invention for winding wire on coils;
  • FIG. 2 is a partial horizontalsection of the apparatus of the present invention taken along the line 2-2 of FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 3 is a view similar to FIG. 1, but showing removal of a wound coil of wire from the apparatus of the present invention.
  • FIG. 4 is an enlarged vertical cross-section of the upper portion of the apparatus of the present invention shown in FIG. 1.
  • the present invention will be described as applied to equipment for winding coils of a metal wire that is produced from a drawing bunch.
  • the manufactured wire 1 is passed around a series of winches of which only the last winch 2 is shown. From this winch, the wire is guided by means of pulleys 3 and 4 towards winder E, constructed in accordance with the presentinvention, where the wire 1 passes through a die in a die-holder 6. In addition to a diameter reduction, this die assures that wire 1 will be placed undervthe tension necessary for its winding in apparatus E. 1
  • Apparatus E includes two major parts, namely an upper part or wire winding device I and a lower part or wire reception device II.
  • Winding device I includes, underneath a housing fixed at frame 8, a suspended winding drum 9.
  • This winding drum 9 includes three parts which are in axial alignment with each other.
  • the first part of winding drum 9 includes a rotatable drive member or upper support 9a disposed on a vertical shaft 10 (FIG. 4), which pivots through the medium of bearings 11, 12 in a cylindrical shaft 13, linked to housing 7.
  • the shaft 10 is supported by an upper flange 14 which rests on the lower bearing 12 forming a block stop by means of nave 15 of a wheel 16 of the internal ring of bearing 11 and of a cross-piece 17.
  • the shaft 10 is rotated by a motor (not shown) by means of a transmission gear with screws 18 which interlocks with peripheric teeth 19 of wheel 16.
  • the second part of winding drum 9 includes a winding member or plate 9b disposed in slideable relation to support 9a by bolts 20 and compression springs 21 which allow a relative vertical axial movement of winding plate 912 in relation to the support 9a.
  • the plate 9b comprises at its periphery a flange that forms a lug 22 I with a lower surface 23 in the shape of a truncated cone, followed by a surface 24 generally in the shape of a cylinder and surface 25 generally in the shape of a truncated cone;
  • the third part of the winding drum 9 includes a coupling member or circular cylinder 90, vertically movable in relation to both previous members 9a and 9b.
  • Circular cylinder 90 is fixed by radial arms 26 at the end of an axial bar 27, suspended on a pivotal connection 28 which is ataached to a lever 29.
  • the lever 29 is pivotable on pin 30 and linked by cable or other equivalent means 31 to an operating mechanism 32.
  • Cylinder 9c is slideably disposed by means of coupled teeth 33 and 34 in relation to plate 9b, and is extended downward by driving teeth or arms the function of which will be described in further detail hereinafter.
  • Wire reception device II includes in the vertical axis XX of the winding drum 9 and under it, a fixed structure formed by a hole 36 and a shaft 37. At the top of hole 36, two rails 39 are disposed on-which a wheeled carriage 40 may be moved to the left or right in FIG. 1.
  • Carriage 40 includes a block stop 41 (FIG. 1) with bearing elements on which a removable reel 42 rests on its bearing surface 43.
  • the reel 42 which is designed to turn around its vertical axis, includes a plurality, for example four, wide vertical slots 44, on the extreme ends of which can gear, in low position, teeth 35 of the cylinder 90 of winding drum 9 to rotate reel 42, in synchronism with this drum.
  • Radial arms 45 of a receiving plate 46 are disposed in slideable relationship with slots 44. It will be noted that receiving plate 46 may in turn be rotated by winding drum 9.
  • the plate 46 revolves on bearings at the upper extreme end of a vertical suspension rod 48 which can be moved up and down in shaft 37 under the action of an operating machanism (not shown).
  • the rod 48 includes a longitudinal rack 49, which gears with two chainwheels 50.
  • the chain-wheels 50 are driven by an electrical motor reducing gear 51 having two running directions (the feeding circuits of this motor are not shown as they are of a standard type with conventional end switches).
  • the circuit In the descending direction of plate 46, the circuit is controlled by a switch 52 (FIG.
  • the operation of the apparatus of the present invention is as follows. At the beginning of a winding operation, the first windings of wire 1 to be wound are temporarily attached to winding drum 9 by conventional means (not shown) such as clamps that are mounted for that purpose. Then, after the first windings are produced, reel 42 is coupled to drum 9 by movement of device 32 and lever 29 that allows cylinder 9c of the 6 which raises shaft 48. The wound up end of wire 1 is then detached from the clamps of the drum 9 and fixed to reel 42, near its top.
  • the first windings slide along surfaces 24 and 25 which have the shape of a cylinder and a truncated cone onto arms 45 of plate 46.
  • the following windings keep on falling spirally over the surfaces 24 and 25 of the winding drum 9.
  • Each new winding from above continuously exerts a pressure from top to bottom upon the previous windings to make them slide over the surfaces 24 and 25 of plate 9b of the winding drum 9.
  • the present invention may be utilized generally for winding wires of various types (such as those made of metal, plastic, etc.) into coils.
  • metal wires it is possible to utilize the present apparatus, which is of a suspended winding drum and reel type, to wind the wire at high speed and in large compact units with a weight in the range of 2,000 Kg., for example.
  • Apparatus adapted to wind a wire into a coil which comprises wire winding means adapted to wind a coil of wire,
  • actuating means operatively connected to said operating means to activate said operating means in response to an increase in the axial forces on said coil.
  • Apparatus adapted to wind a wire into a coil which comprises i a wire winding device including a rotatable drive member, a winding member and a coupling member,
  • said rotatable drive member having an operating position for engaging and rotating said winding member
  • said winding member having an operating position for engaging and rotating said coupling member
  • a coil reception device including a hollow reel member and a receiving plate member
  • said hollow member having a plurality of longitudinal slots in its periphery
  • said receiving plate member having an axial element adapted to be disposed within the interior of said hollow reel member and a plurality of radial arm elements adapted to extend through said slots
  • said coupling member having an operating position for engaging said hollow reel member and for rotating said coil reception device
  • actuating means operatively connected to said operating means to activate said operating means-in response to movement of said winding member against said compression means.
  • winding member has a flange in the shape of a truncated cone and an outer surface partly in the shape of a cylinder and partly in the shape of a truncated cone.
  • the invention as defined by claim 5 including means for removing a hollow reel member wound with wire and for installing a hollow reel member to be wound with wire.
  • a method for winding wire into a coil which comprises winding a wire into a coil on a wire winding means, passing said coil as it is formed from said wire winding means to a coil reception means, maintaining an axial force on one end of said coil on said wire winding means, maintaining an axial force on the other end of said coil on said coil reception means, detecting an increased axial force on said coil as said wire is wound on said wire winding means, and releasing said axial force on said other end of said coil in response to said detecting step to thereby permit movement of said coil from said wire winding means onto said coil reception means.

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US3490713A (en) * 1968-07-24 1970-01-20 Western Electric Co Methods of and apparatus for advancing and coiling strand material
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EP0997204A2 (de) * 1998-10-30 2000-05-03 Morgan Construction Company Kühlungstopf mit Höhenvestellbarer Tragplette
US6237868B1 (en) * 1998-10-30 2001-05-29 Morgan Construction Company Cooling pot with vertically adjustable coil plate
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