EoW January 2010

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Double–winding spooling line

A PTB-certified gauge- able measuring system for cable length, a variety of monitoring instruments, an accu- mulator and a laying unit supervise the winding. The cable is fixed automatically onto the core of the reel. Defective cable, det- ected by the monitor- ing instruments, will be automatically cut and taken out of the system.

German cable system specialist KFM Kabelmaschinenfabrik Müller has developed a fully automatic, double- spooling line for winding, packing and palletting cable reels. The double-winding system is said to significantly increase the rate of output of coiled reels. The installation is designed in modules that can be adapted to each customer ’ s particular requirements. These include a new TW 800 payoff – suitable for drums with a flange diameter of 300mm to 500mm – programmed to automatically pick up and deliver each drum. The system operator has only to connect the ends of the cables. The heart of the installation is a TS 500/300 2-reel winder. The system is designed to deal with different sizes of reels quickly and easily. Changing the setup of the complete line takes about ten minutes. Up to twelve empty reels are manually placed on a special chain on a table; from there they are collected individually and set onto the winding axis by a pick-and-place unit.

Double spooling line from KFM ▲ ▲

The cable is wound according to the programmed length, fixed and packed in stretch foil. Packing is done at a separate stage in the system to maximise production capacity, then the reel is labelled – either with standard information or indivi- dual inline result information. The last position of the line is the fully automatic

programmable palletiser, designed to cope with any combination of spool and pallet size. KFM Kabelmaschinenfabrik Müller GmbH – Germany Fax : +49 4498 9233 60

Email : info@kfm-mueller.de Website : www.kfm-mueller.de

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EuroWire – January 2010