EOW May 2007

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Equipment for Wire Treatment

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Picture courtesy of Societa’ Industriale Bagnolo Srl, Italy

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Even the thickest wire is thin by ordinary standards – and its ‘skin,’ thinner still. Some idea of the challenge of working on that skin, or imparting properties to it, can be gained from the abstract of a patent (‘Wire Coil Guiding Device for Wire Treatment’) chosen more or less at random from the Internet. It reads: “A rotating horizontal carrier shaft having the coils of wires suspended and imparting to the coils rotative movement about the shaft to transport the coils in a direction generally parallel to the axis of the carrier

shaft. At least one guide disc is positioned on both sides of the carrier shaft and the guide discs of each of the guide disc devices is freely rotatable about a rotational axis of the disc arranged to extend generally parallel to the direction of transport of the wire coils.” And so on. These sentences will give some sense of the gingerly approach that is a staple of wire treatment. And bear in mind that they refer only to the presentation of the wire, in this case to a jet de-scaling machine.

Without question, this is a province for experts . . .

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