Wire-winding device

Information

  • Patent Grant
  • 6290166
  • Patent Number
    6,290,166
  • Date Filed
    Tuesday, August 22, 2000
    24 years ago
  • Date Issued
    Tuesday, September 18, 2001
    23 years ago
Abstract
A wire-winding device is characterized, by including a stand, a wire reel carried to the stand with an axis, a carrier with an axis parallelly arranged to that of the wire reel, a guide reel having a drum formed in a beer barrel with side-flanges and rotary supported to the carrier, an apparatus for movably supporting the carrier, and an apparatus for biasing the carrier in such a manner that a wire to be wound is maintained so as to be turned to the wire reel at a predetermined turning point.
Description




DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION




1) The Technical Field of this Invention




This invention relates to a wire-winding device used for winding a wire around a wire reel in such a manner that the wire turning parallelly to the reel in a line.




2) The Prior Arts




Generally, the prior wire-winding device comprises a stand


301


, a wire reel


302


carried to the stand with an axis, a guide reel


303


having a drum


303




a


formed in a beer barrel with side-flanges


303




b


,


303




b


and rotary supported by a stationary frame


304


, as shown in FIG.


7


. The reference number


305


is a pole-shaped supporting member which depresses the wire turns W


1


in the radial direction of the wire reel


302


.




In operation, a wire W is introduced to the turning position of the wire reel


302


via the guide reel


303


so as to be wound in a line in a condition that the wire turns are tightly attached side by side. However, the prior wire-winding device involves a problem that the turning point P of the wire W to the wire reel


302


is varied on the turns to be shifted toward the guide reel


303


according to the wire turns W


1


increased to the wire reel


302


in a superposed condition, so that the wire is inclined from a line A to a line B as shown in FIG.


7


.




As a result, the wire W induced by the guide reel


303


is unavoidably offset from the best turning condition, thereby to lose the aligned condition of the wire turns to the wire reel


302


.




3) SUMMARY OF THIS INVENTION




A wire-winding device according to this invention is characterized by comprising a stand, a wire reel carried to the stand with an axis, a carrier with an axis parallelly arranged to that of the wire reel, a guide reel having a drum formed in a beer barrel with side-flanges and rotary supported by the carrier, a means for movably supporting the carrier, and a means for biasing the carrier in such a manner that a wire to be wound is maintained so as to be turned to the wire reel at a predetermined turning point.




Accordingly, the wire turning point on the wire reel is maintained in constant by the carrier motion and the bias means, so that the wire induced to the wire reel is turned to the guide reel under the best condition in which the wire is turned side by side in a line on the superposed turns.




Furthermore, the wire-winding device of this invention includes a means for guiding the wire turns in a line at the turning point of wire to the wire reel. That is this guiding means comprises a guide member extended in parallel to the axis of the wire reel and a means for biasing the guide member to the radial direction of the wire reel so as to depress the wire turns.




Embodiments of this invention will be detailed in the reference of the description mentioned below with the following drawings.











4) BRIEF EXPLANATION OF THE DRAWINGS





FIG. 1

is a side view of the wire-winding device of this invention in the first embodiment.





FIG. 2

is a plane view of the wire-winding device of FIG.


1


.





FIGS. 3 and 4

are side views of the wire-winding device of

FIG. 1

in second and final stages.





FIG. 5

is a side view of the wire-winding device of this invention in the first embodiment.





FIG. 6

is a plane view of the wire-winding device of FIG.


5


.





FIG. 7

is a side view of the wire-winding device of the prior art.











5) EMBODIMENTS OF THIS INVENTION




The first embodiment of this invention is illustrated in

FIGS. 1

to


5


. There is provided an improved wire-winding device which comprises a stand


101


, a wire reel


102


carried to the stand


101


with a horizontal axis


102




a


, a carrier


103


vertically movable, a guide reel


104


having a drum


104




a


formed in a beer barrel with side-flanges


104




b


and rotary supported by the carrier


103


with an axis


103




b


parallelly arranged to the axis


102




a


, and a means


105


for biasing the carrier


103


in such a manner that a wire W to be wound is maintained so as to be turned to the wire reel


102


at a predetermined turning point P.




As further detailed, the carrier


103


has guide poles


103




b


which is supported to the bottom of the carrier


103


in a slide condition to cylindrical supporters


106


attached to a base frame


107


. The bias means


105


in this embodiment is a compression bias spring member disposed between the carrier


103


and the base frame


107


, with its spring member turned around a pole


103




c


attached to the bottom of the carrier


103


and penetrating through a bore formed to the base frame


107


.




Furthermore, the wire-winding device includes a means for guiding the wire W turns in a line at the turning point P of wire to the wire reel


102


. That is this guiding means comprises a pole-shaped guide member


108


extended in parallel to the axis


102




a


of the wire reel


102


and disposed between the flanges


102




b


,


102




b


, and a means for biasing the guide member


108


at the point P to the radial direction of the wire reel


102


so as to depress the wire turns W


1


superposed to the body of the wire reel


102


. The above-mentioned spring member


105


is used in combination to the latter biasing means in this embodiment.




In

FIGS. 1

to


5


, the reference numbers


109


and


110


are a pair of guide rollers for inducing the wire W to the guide reel


104


, one of which has side-flanges.




In operation, the wire W is turned in a line to the body of the wire-reel


102


so as to be depressed at the wire turning point P by the guide member


108


and the biasing means in a first stage as shown in FIG.


1


. In this case, the wire W slides on the beer barrel of the guide reel


104


in a manner to retract side by side between the flanges


104




b


,


104




b.






In second stage, the wire W is turned in a line over the superposed turns W


1


on the body of the wire reel


102


as shown in FIG.


3


. In this case the wire turning point P is not shifted to the guide reel


104


and maintained at the best position as the same as that of the first stage, because the guide reel


104


is lowered together with the guide member


108


according to the carrier


103


against the bias of the spring member


105


.




The final stage of the wire-winding operation to the wire reel


102


is illustrated in FIG.


4


. In this case, the wire turning point P is not shifted to the guide reel


104


and also maintained at the best position as same as that of the first stage.




Accordingly, this wire-winding device in this embodiment is always used in the best condition so as to wind the wire W to the wire reel


102


in a period from the first stage to the final stage.




The second embodiment of this invention is illustrated in

FIGS. 5 and 6

. There is provided a wire-winding device which includes a wire-reel


201


with an axis


201




a


and having side flanges a pole-shaped guide member


202


extended in parallel to the axis


201




a


so as to align the wire turns on the body of the wire-reel


201


or the superposed turns W


1


, and a means


203


for biasing the guide member


202


so as to depress it to radial direction of the wire-reel.




In this case, the guide member


202


is supported to a concave surface formed to a supporter block


204


with a pole


204




a


which is supported by a cylindrical holder


205


in a slide condition, the holder


205


being supported by a supporting frame


206


inclined to the horizontal line, with the holder


205


penetrating through a bore formed to the frame


206


. The biasing means


203


in this embodiment is a compression bias spring member disposed between the supporter block


204


and the supporting frame


205


with it turning around the pole


204




a.






However, the guide member


202


is not placed at the wire turning point P on the body of the wire reel


201


or the superposed turns W


1


. It is different from that of the first embodiment. The other members used in the wire-winding device as same as those of the first embodiment are not shown in the drawings.




Accordingly, in this embodiment, the wire turning point P is not shifted to the guide reel, though it is not shown in the drawings, and also maintained at the best position as same as that of all the stages, and the wire-winding device also keeps the same merit as that of the first embodiment.



Claims
  • 1. A wire-winding device comprising a stand, a wire reel carried to the stand with an axis, a carrier vertically movable, a guide reel having a drum formed in a beer barrel with side-flanges and rotary supported by the carrier with an axis parallelly arranged to that of the wire reel, and a means for biasing the carrier in such a manner that a wire to be wound is maintained so as to be turned to the wire reel at a predetermined turning point.
  • 2. A wire-winding device claimed in claim 1, in which the carrier supports a guide member shaped into a pole for depressing the wire turns to the radial direction of the wire reel.
  • 3. A wire-winding device claimed in claim 2, in which the bias means includes a compression bias spring member which is used in combination to that of the guide member, and the guide member depresses the wire turns at a wire-turning point.
  • 4. A wire-winding device claimed in claim 2, in which the bias means includes a compression bias spring member which is displaced between a supporter block for the guide member and a supporting frame so as to depresse the guide member in the radial direction of the wire reel.
Priority Claims (1)
Number Date Country Kind
11-235699 Aug 1999 JP
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