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EuroWire – January 2010 32
technology news
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.
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.
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:
Website :
Double–winding spooling line
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