Dual reel continuous wire winding machine with robotic reel load

Details Dual reel continuous wire winding machine with robotic reel load Dual reel continuous wire winding machine with robotic reel load

1985-11-04

1987-01-20

Gilreath, Stanley N.

Winding, tensioning, or guiding

Coil holder or support

Spool or core

242 355A, 242 79, B65H 5402, B65H 67052

Patent

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046375643

ABSTRACT:
A continuous wire winding machine for winding wire on reels having a pair of spaced flanges connected by a central core. The machine includes a machine frame, a conveyor for supplying empty reels to and removing wound reels from the machine, two pairs of arbor means for gripping and rapidly rotating reels for the winding of wire thereon, one of each of said pairs being a driven arbor, and transfer mechanism for transferring empty reels from the conveyor and wound reels to the conveyor. The transfer mechanism includes a pair of robotic arm assemblies, each of which comprises a first gripper for grasping an empty reel at one end of the assembly and a second gripper for grabbing a wound reel at the other end of the assembly, shaft means mounting each of the robotic arm assemblies for oscillation through an arc of 180.degree., means for oscillating the shaft, and driving means for mounting the grippers for moving them between an outwardly extended position and an inwardly retracted position relative to the assembly and the shaft, whereby when the grippers are in their extended positions, they are enabled alternatively to present an empty reel between a pair of said arbors and to grab a wound reel positioned between said pair of arbors, and when said grippers are in their retracted positions, the assembly is enabled to be oscillated about the axis of said shaft. Improved traversing means and diverting means, cutters and blockers and snaggers are also provided.

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