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EuroWire – May 2009 51
Materials handling & equipment
Automatic double winding, packaging
and palletising line
KFM Kabelmaschinenfabrik Müller GmbH, Germany, has developed a new
fully automatic double spooling line for winding, packing and palletising
of plywood reels. The double winding system increases the output of
coiled reels.
The installation is designed in modules, which are adaptable to the special
requirements of each customer. The modules include a new payoff,
type TW 800, suitable for drums with a flange diameter of 300mm up to
500mm that can be programmed for automatic pick-up and delivery of
drums. The operator has only to connect the ends of the cables.
The heart of the installation is the reel winder, type TS 500/300-2.
The plant is designed to operate different sizes of reels with minimum
preparation time; the change of format for the complete line takes
approximately ten minutes. Up to 12 empty reels are manually placed
on a table, from where they are collected individually and set into the
winding axis by a pick-and-place unit. The cable is guided through a gaugeable length-measuring system via several test instruments,
an accumulator and a laying-up device onto the core of the reel, where it is mechanically fixed. The cable is wound according to the
pre-programmed length, and after winding it is fixed and packed in stretch foil. For this, and to maintain production speed, the reel
is moved into another station. The packed reel is taken out of the machine by means of a carriage and moved into a tipping unit.
Then the reel is labelled with pre-defined information or individual in-line result information. Defective cable is cut and removed from
the machine, to ensure that only perfect cable is packed on reels.
The last station in the line is the fully automatic palletiser. The palletiser is programmed with pre-sets for each size of spool, making it
easy to change spool sizes. The palletiser is designed to receive different sizes of pallets.
KFM Kabelmaschinenfabrik Müller GmbH – Germany Fax: +49 4498 9233 10
Email: Website :
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