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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 06, 2010
Applicant:
Alfred R. Austen, Bath, PA (US);
Inventor:
Alfred R. Austen, Bath, PA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B21C 23/00 (2006.01); B65H 20/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An apparatus and method for moving a wire along its own axis against a high resistance to its motion causing a substantial uniaxial compression stress in the wire without allowing it to buckle. The apparatus consists of a wire gripping and moving drive wheel and guide rollers for transporting the moving wire away from the drive wheel. Wire is pressed into a peripheral groove in a relatively large diameter, rotating drive wheel by a set of small diameter rollers arranged along part of the periphery causing the wire to be gripped by the groove.