Method of supporting a camshaft in a wire coiling machine

Details Method of supporting a camshaft in a wire coiling machine Method of supporting a camshaft in a wire coiling machine

1984-06-04

1985-06-25

Combs, E. Michael

Metal deforming

By deflecting successively-presented portions of work during...

To form helical coil or tube

B21F 302

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active

045245975

ABSTRACT:
A machine for coiling wire to form any one of a number of different size, type and configuration of coil spring and comprising a machine frame in which is mounted a driveshaft, intermediate shaft, camshaft, and feed roller shafts. At a work station of the machine appropriate coiling dyes are supported along with one or more cutters mounted adjacent thereto. The wire is fed to the work station via a pair of feed rollers driven at variable speed, preferably by means of an elliptical gear drive, wherein the feed speed is at a maximum during coiling and decreases to a minimum feed speed for cutting. Wire feed is synchronously interrupted at cutting by means of a cam arrangement that briefly disengaged the feed rollers. This variable speed drive enables a high duty cycle of operation and also enables start up (feed rollers engaging) at reduced speed so as to minimize wire distortion. In an alternate form of wire feed, instead of interrupting drive to the feed rollers by a cam arrangement, a clutch is used to briefly stop motion for cutting. A further feature of the machine is the capability of removal of cams from the camshaft with all cams remaining in tact. In this way a set of cams can be later substituted to produce a particular spring construction without requiring constant cam adjustment.

REFERENCES:
patent: 1376714 (1921-05-01), Mansfield
patent: 2902079 (1959-09-01), Costello et al.

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