Information
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Patent Grant
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6290166
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Patent Number
6,290,166
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Date Filed
Tuesday, August 22, 200024 years ago
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Date Issued
Tuesday, September 18, 200123 years ago
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Inventors
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Original Assignees
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Examiners
Agents
- Lowe Hauptman Gilman & Berner, LLP
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CPC
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US Classifications
Field of Search
US
- 242 4842
- 242 4843
- 242 4844
- 242 443
- 242 4864
- 242 470
- 242 6152
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International Classifications
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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)
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Date |
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11-235699 |
Aug 1999 |
JP |
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US Referenced Citations (5)