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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2011
Jürgen Wolf, Walddorfhaeslach, DE;
Uwe-peter Weigmann, Nuertingen, DE;
Ralph Steinmaier, Engen, DE;
Stefan Jetter, Walddorfhaeslach, DE;
Jürgen Wolf, Walddorfhaeslach, DE;
Uwe-Peter Weigmann, Nuertingen, DE;
Ralph Steinmaier, Engen, DE;
Stefan Jetter, Walddorfhaeslach, DE;
Wafios Aktiengesellschaft, Reutlingen, DE;
Abstract
An apparatus for feeding wire to wire-processing machines, in which the wire is drawn off from a pay-off reel holding a wire coil and rotatable about a spindle and fed to a wire feeder upstream of the wire-processing machine, wherein at least one wire-deflecting device, via which the wire drawn off from the pay-off reel is guided and released towards the wire feeder, is connected downstream of the pay-off reel in the wire draw-off direction, and wherein a wire-storage device is provided upstream of the wire feeder, this apparatus presents a guide path, forming a closed circuit, on which the wire runs and the diameter of which can be altered between a smaller value corresponding to an inner radial position of the guide path and a larger value corresponding to an outer radial position of the guide path, wherein the guide path is spring-pretensioned towards the outer radial position.