Coil for Wire Winding

Abstract

The coil, the construction of which is discussed in the paper, refers to devices for automating the winding of wires and can be used as part of automatic lines for its production. One of the most time-consuming and lengthy operations in the production of wire is its winding on the coils. Traditionally, such devices contain a support sleeve with disks mounted along its edges, while the specific features of the coils of specific manufacturing companies most often include the ways of performing their structural elements that increase the reliability of the coils and the winding speed of the wires on them. At the same time, the conducted patent-information search showed that effective solutions related to the automation of the winding process and allowing, in particular, to constantly monitor the mass of the bundle of the wire wound on the coil, is not enough. The technical problem of the described technical solution is an extension of the functionality of the coil for winding the wire and making it possible to use it not only to wire the wire into a bundle, but also as a feedback element in automatic control systems. The problem is solved by the fact that the coil comprises a support sleeve with discs mounted along its edges, inside which an axis is placed on the supports, while the disks have longitudinal through grooves half the diameter of their circumference, and on the axis from one side of the coil the first ruler with light-emitting devices is fixed, and from the opposite side of the coil the second ruler with photocells is mounted on it. A positive technical result from the application of the proposed technical solution implies the possibility of using a coil as a tracking element in the automatic control system for the wire production line.