EoW September 2009

Steel wire, cable & rod

Tubular closers for steel rope

Tubular closer from CM Caballé ▲ ▲

With over 60 years' experience in the manufacture and design of rotating machinery for the production of steel ropes, the Spanish company Caballé provides the steel wire industry with double twist stranders, tubular stranders, bow skip stranders and planetary stranders and closers. The existing range of tubular closers has been extended to accommodate 1,250mm reels, and all models have been upgraded using the latest technology in rotating and closing equipment. A typical closing line is composed of a central payoff for the steel or textile core, a tubular closer for 8 reels (to close ropes of 6 or 8 strands), a pre-former, a closing station, a double wheel capstan and a take-up. If required, the line can be supplied with a greasing unit, a compression roller unit or with a post-former. The company’s efforts have been focused in the design of the tubular closer and pre-former. The largest tubular closer manufactured is for reels of 1,250mm diameter and can close steel ropes of up to 60mm of finished rope diameter. The maximum rotating speed is 350rpm. The main features of the biggest tubular closer are said to be: Longer tubes (two reels between supports) and very soft deviation angles to reduce • the twisting forces Improved Gesadur underrollers system to allow high speed and low maintenance • Upgraded double reel braking system with full strand tension control, constant • from full to empty reel Wire path made of special hard steel for low friction • Rotating speed said to be up to ten times faster than traditional closers •

C M Caballé, SA – Spain Fax : +34 93 399 0008 Email : caballe@cmcaballe.es Website : www.cmcaballe.es

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EuroWire – September 2009