DEVELOPMENT OF A HIGH CAPACITY THREE HEADED COIL-SPOOL WINDING MACHINE

Abstract

Cable packaging machines are machines that can automatically wrap long and thin materials such as wires, cables and pipes into regular packages. These machines play an important role in cable production and save time and labour in the production process. There are many types of cable packaging machines and they have different features, but in general, all of them ensure that the materials are wrapped in the correct size, tightly packed and transported quickly. In the machine designed and manufactured in this study, cables are packed in perforated spool, slotted spool and coil form. The system consists of 7 sections as unloader, traverse unit, dancer, cable winding heads, spool feeding, pliers group and main control panel. In the designed and manufactured machine, the number of cable winding heads was increased to 3 for the first time and the lost time during the cable winding process was minimized. In the research, the performance of the designed and manufactured machine was tested. As a result of the experiments, it was determined that the machine winds 10-12 coils/min at a cable length of 16,5-25 m and 4,5-5 spools/min at a cable length of 100 m.