US1187827A - Wire-reeling apparatus. - Google Patents

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W. E. GIBBS.

v WIRE REELING APPARATUS- APPUCATION FILED MAY 13, I910.

Patented June 20, 1916.

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W. E. (HBBS.

WIRE REELING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 13. 1910.

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Patented June 20, 1916.

Snvcnfoz Q D aHmmn J II T UT T TW t it WILLIAM E. GIBBS, OE PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, T0 GIBBS COMPANY, OF PLAINFIELD, NEW JERSEY, A COB- PORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

WIRE-REELING- APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 22, 11916.

Application filed May 13, 1910. Serial No. 561,221.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM E. GIBBS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Pittsburgh, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wire-Reeling Apparatus, of which the following is a full and clear specification.

My invention relates to apparatus for reeling or coiling wire.

The principal object of my invention is to provide apparatus ofthis character in which the coil of wire may be removed without stopping the machine.

y invention is also directed to certain improvements in the operation of conducting the wire to the block or member about which it is to be coiled.

Although it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the particular details or arrangement of parts herein shown, I shall for the sake of clearness describe an embodiment of the invention wherein the essential features are employed in conjunction with the drawing of copper wire.

In said drawings Figure 1 illustrates in vertical section one of the preferred forms of my invention as applied to drawing and reeling copper wire.- Fig. 2 shows the block and reeling device in full elevation. Fig. 3 is a plan view thereof with parts re.- moved. Fig. 4 is a detail sectional elevation of a modified form of connection between two of the gear devices to be hereinafter explained, and Fig. 5 is a detail sectional elevation, showing a modification in the location of the draw plate.

Referring now more specifically to said drawings, it will be seen'that I have illustrated the apparatus as mounted upon a supporting frame or standard comprising legs 10 and 11 and cross pieces 12 and 13. The cross piece 13 has a central bearing 14 for a shaft 15 which has secured on it a bearing ring 16 and miter gear 17. The shaft 15 has a central bore 18 through which the wire may be led and is milled out at 19 to facilitate the insertion of the wire in beginning operation. Rotary motion may be imparted to the shaft by suitable drive, as by bevel gear 20 in mesh with bevel gear 17 and disposed in suitable bearing 21 in the standard. The rotary shaft 15 7 passes through a horizontal plate 22 suitably secured to the standard and having fixed thereto a gear plate 23. Above the gear plate 23 a split arm 24 is clamped upon the shaft 15 by bolts 25 and 26 as clearly shown in Fig. 3, the latter providing a bearing for a grooved guide roller 27 disposed within the recess of the arm 24 with its periphery alined with the central bore 18 of the shaft 15. The arm 24 thus rotates with the shaft 15 while the gear plate 23, being fixed to the plate 22 and standard of the machine, re mains stationary. A second gear plate 28 is loosely mounted on the shaft 15 above revolving arm 24 and has secured to it the block 29 as by screws 30, the block 29 fitting loosely upon the end of the shaft 15. The upper end of the block 29 may, when desired, be provided with a flange plate 31 which may be removably supported thereon as by an annular flange 32 adapted to slidewithin the recessed upper end of the block.

Fitting loosely around the lower portion of.

the block 29 is a beveled annular disk or ring 33 which is provided with an inner annular flange 34 by which it rests upon thegear 28, so that the ring may be tilted slightly as hereinafter described.

In order to facilitate the removal of the coiled wire without stopping the machine, ll maintain the block stationary and supply the wire'to the lower portion of it from below by revolving the feed or'guide device about it, thus maintaining the reeled wire stationary and removable from above without interfering with the continued winding or reeling of the wire about the lower portion of the block. In order to accomplish this the arm 24 is provided with a bearing 35 in which is disposed a shaft 36 having fixed thereon a spur gear 37 in mesh with gear plate 23 and a spur gear 38 in mesh with the gear 28. The number of teeth on gear plate 23 is equal to'that on gear 28, and the number of teeth on spur gear 37 is equal to that on spur gear 38. It will thus be seen that as the arm 24 revolves, the spur gears 37 and 38 and shaft 36 have a planetary motion about the two gears 23 and 28, and as the gear 23 is held stationary, the gear 28 will also be held stationary. The arm 24 is also provided with a socket 39 adapted to receive the fork or bracket 40 in which is mounted a grooved guide roller 41. The guide roller 41 may by this connection i be tilted to the desired .angle so that it may receive wire coming from the guide roller 3 27 above described and direct it properly to the lower portion of the block 29 immediately above the ring 33 as the arm 24 revolves. Preferably the fork is centrally perforated ,so that the wire may pass through it, as shown clearly in Fig. 1, and the guide roller 41 is so positioned in the fork 40 that its groove is maintained in alinement with the groove in the guide roller 27 in all positions.

To assist in laying the wire at the bottom of the coil upon the block 29, I provide for the tilting of the ring 33 upon its flange 34 above referred to. This is accomplished by means of a roller 42 journaled in an arm 43 projecting from the revolving arm 24. It will be noted from Figs. 2 and 3 that the roller 42 tilts the ring 33 down at the side where the wire is fedto the block and up at the opposite side. The effect of this is to crowd the wire up at the side opposite to where it is fed on and form a space between the lowermost turn of the coil and the ring at the side where the wire is to be fed on, .and into this space the wire is fed. The guide roller 41 and the tilting roller 42 being revolved in unison with the revolving 80 arm 24, insures that the space for laying the wire as it is fed to the block will always be maintained in the proper place.

I have shown in Fig. 1 a draw plate 44 which may rotate with the shaft 15 and through which the wire may be drawn after passing through a bath 45 of any desired material such as oil or soap and water. In this arrangement, it will be noted that the twist which the wirereceives in feeding it through the revolving parts to the reeling device will take place before it has passed through the draw plate inasmuch as the draw plate is rotating with the shaft 15, and is thus removed by the draw plate. :This is not in" all cases desirable inasmuch as the subsequent manipulation of the wire after it has been reeled may in certain cases involve a second twisting operation. Insuch cases it is desirable to feed the wire onto the block witha twist in one direction which is removed by the twist in the opposite direction which it receives in the subsequent manipulation after it leaves the block. For this purpose I may mount the draw plate 44 upon some stationary part of the apparatus, as for instance underneath the 1 cross bar 12 as illustrated in Fig. 5, so that the twist is received after the wire passes through the draw plate.

I have illustrated and described above the ordinary external gear construction for maintaining the gear 28 stationary with the gear plate 23. It is of course obvious that many mechanical equivalents of this means exist by which the gear 28 may be held stationary with the gear plate 23. For example, in some cases it may be preferable to substitute, as indicated in Fig. 4, the internal gear rings 23 and 28' with spur gears 37 and 38 operating within them and suitably carried by a revolving arm 24 similar to the revolving arm 24 above described.

The operation of the apparatus is as follows: The wire from any suitable source is fed through the bath 45 through the draw plate 44 and passed through the shaft 15 over the guide roller 27 through the fork 40 over the adjustable guide roller 41 and a few turns around the block 29 after which the end of the wire may be secured to the block if desired in any well known manner. The power shaft is then set in operation and rotary movement applied to the apparatus through the bevel gears 20 and 17 as above indicated. Arm 24 being thereby revolved will cause the adjustable guide roller 41 to revolve about the block and the advance end of the wire being stationary upon the block 29, this motion will operate to draw the wire through thedraw plate 44. As the wire accumulates upon the block 29, it is crowded up, assisted bythe tilting of the rim 33, and movesup upon the smaller portion of the block in well knownmanner. Obviously all but a few turns of the coiled wire may be either detached or continuously removed from the block for any desired subsequent operations, as the block and coil are stationary and no moving parts are in position tointerfere with the wire as it is taken ofi at the top of the block.

I claim:

1. A wire reeling apparatus, comprising in combination a stationary block, a ring surrounding the bottom of the block, revolving means for winding the wire about the block, and means revolving with said winding means for tilting said ring.

2. A. wire reelingapparatus, comprising in combination a stationary block, a ring surrounding the lower portion thereof, revolving means for winding the wire around h the lower portion of the block, means for eading the'wireto said winding means from below the block, and means revolving with said winding means for tilting said ring.

3. A Wire reeling apparatus, comprising in' combination a stationary block, a ring surrounding said block, a rotary shaft, a revolving arm secured to said shaft, a guide roller revolving with said arm, adapted to wind the wire about/the block, means revolving with said arm for tilting said ring, and means for leading the wire to said guide roller. 4. A .wire reeling apparatus, comprising in combination a block, a gear fixed thereto, a stationary gear, revolving means for winding the wire about the block, and a planetary gear device revolving with said Winding means and adapted to prevent relative movement between said stationary gear and the gear secured to the block.

5. A. wire reeling apparatus, comprising in combination a rotary shaft, a block loosely mounted thereon, a revolving arm secured on said shaft, means carried by said arm for winding the Wire about the block, and means revolving with said arm for holding the block stationary.

WILLIAM E. GIBBS. Witnesses:

OCTAVIUs KNIGHT,

M. G. CRAWFORD.

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