Abstract

A method of winding a wire (18) about a plurality of spools (20, 22, 24) is provided. The method includes locating the plurality of spools on a winding shaft in a side-by-side fashion. An adaptor plate(30,32) is located between adjacent spools. The adaptor plate includes a wire catch feature configured for catching the wire as a traveler (16) feeding the wire (18) to the spools moves from one spool to the next spool while the winding shaft rotates.

IPC Classes  ?

• B65H 54/20 - Winding and traversing material on to reels, bobbins, tubes, or like package cores or formers for making packages of specified shapes or on specified types of bobbins, tubes, cores, or formers forming multiple packages
• B65H 55/00 - Wound packages of filamentary material
• B65H 65/00 - Securing material to cores or formers
• B65H 67/056 - Continuous winding apparatus for winding on two or more winding heads in succession having two or more winding heads arranged in series with each other
• B65H 75/28 - Arrangements for securing ends of material
• B21C 47/12 - Winding-up or coiling by means of a moving guide the guide moving parallel to the axis of the coil
• B21C 47/32 - Tongs or gripping means specially adapted for reeling operations