George Frank Besnyo - Towson MD Byron Lee Small - Parkville MD
Assignee:
Western Electric Company, Inc. - New York NY
International Classification:
B65B 6304
US Classification:
53 3
Abstract:
Coiling and binding of strand material such as telephone cordage is accomplished by revolving cyclically spaced coiling heads mounted rotatably on a rotatably mounted turret between one position where a length of deformable tie material is preloaded on the coiling head and another position whereat a predetermined number of convolutions of cordage are wound on the coiling head such that the tie spans diametrically of and extends beyond the convolutions. The winding in the other position occurs while the tie of the previously wound cordage now in the one position is formed about the cordage such that each end portion of the tie encloses and binds together an adjacent plurality of corresponding portions of the convolutions whereafter the coiled, bound cordage is ejected from the head in the one position. The hed in the one position is loaded with another tie while the coiled cordage on the head in the other position is severed from a supply preparatory to the revolving of the heads to interchange the positions thereof to facilitate another cycle of operation in which the coiled cordage moved into the one position is bound and the head preloaded with a tie has convolutions wound thereon in the other position.