Komax Holding Ag

Cassian Straessle

Dominik Staubli

Denis Faccenda

Jan Lochmatter

A method and a device twist single cables about a twisting axis. The single cables each run along a cable axis and have wires, which are twisted in a strand twisting direction to form a strand, and also each have a first cable end and a second cable end. The first cable ends are held separately by a single rotating unit in each case. The second cable ends are held by a twisting unit. The second cable ends are rotated jointly about the twisting axis counter to the strand twisting direction to produce a twisted cable bundle. During the joint rotation, the first cable ends are rotated separately about a cable axis of the respective single cable, in the same rotation direction as the joint rotation. The single cables are each relieved of torsion thereby.

Method and device for twisting single cables

A device and a method twist single cables about a twisting axis to form a cable bundle along an extension axis. The device includes mutually spaced single rotating units for separately holding cable ends at one end of the single cables; a twisting unit for holding and twisting cable ends at the other end of the single cables; and a guiding apparatus, to which is fastened a guiding mandrel for separating the single cables, at least in some regions, during a twisting process by the twisting unit, in a region in which there is a transition from an untwisted region to a twisted region. The guiding mandrel includes a thickened portion on a side opposite its fastening to the guiding apparatus, the thickened portion having larger dimensions in a direction transverse to the running direction of the guiding mandrel than in most of the guiding mandrel.

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Waedenswil, Switzerland

Cassian Straessle