Nv Bekaert Sa

Maarten Meyfroidt

Bert Vanderbeken

Johan Hugelier

Johan Priem

Wim Desmet

Nico Vermandele

A winding module and a winding installation including winding modules for winding metal wire. In such a winding installation or take-up bench a driven capstan is used to pull the metal wire through a processing installation before being led onto a take-up spool. The spool is driven by a cantilever supported shaft. In prior art take-up benches, both the capstan and the spool is reachable by an operator from the same side. This means that the capstan direction—the direction from the driven side of the capstan to the operator side—is equal to the shaft direction—the direction from the drive side of the shaft to the open end of the shaft. In the inventive winding module the capstan direction is opposite to the shaft direction, which provides a completely different operation of the winding module and the winding installation and facilitates the introduction of doffing robots.

Winding module and winding installation for metal wires

A spool () of a linear string () of pocketed springs is disclosed. The linear string of pocketed springs comprises springs () each provided in a textile pocket (). The springs () comprise helically coiled steel wire springs. The textile pockets () are assembled to each other in linear direction. The linear string () has a width of one textile pocket (). The string () of pocketed springs is present in the spool () spirally wound and in a compressed state such that the pocketed springs () can expand upon unwinding the string () of pocketed springs from the spool ().

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Oostrozebeke, Belgium

Maarten Meyfroidt