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Pay-offs, take-ups & winding systems
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Wire & Cable ASIA – July/August 2007
Increased safety and cut in costs
Boxy, in co-operation with one of its customers, contributed to increased
automation of a new machine by supplying steel reels and lifting beams especially
developed for that project.
Reels are equipped with a system that automatically clamps the wire end, while
lifting units allow reels to be automatically handled – they can clamp and release
the reel without any operator intervention.
Thanks to that system, reel removal from the machine and its transport inside the
plant are speeded up, resulting in increased safety and reduced labour costs.
Boxy SpA – Italy
Fax: +39 0309 57244
Email: • Website:
Pay-offs for
aluminium wire rod
Niehoff has developed a large
range of pay-offs for different
kinds of wires and cables.
Because aluminium coils are
wound layer-by-layer, a different
pay-off technique than copper is
required.
Niehoff offers two pay-off systems
for aluminium rod with diameters
of 9.52mm.
Using the AAH 1800 type pay-off,
the coils are placed in a chart with
horizontal axis and rod is paid out
from the inside of the coil.
As the end of one coil is welded
to the beginning of the next one,
the rod can be be processed
continuously without stopping the
drawing line.
The other pay-off has the
designation ATV1800. It consists
of a rotating table on which the
coil is placed.
The wire is paid off tangentially.
The process is not continuous so
the rod breakdown machine must
be stopped at coil changeover.
Maschinenfabrik Niehoff GmbH
& Co KG – Germany
Fax: +49 9122 977 155
Email:
Website:
Reel equipped with a clamping device for the wire end ▲
Full range of take-ups and pay-offs
Queins, Germany, is a leading manufacturer of
heavy duty pay-offs and take-ups.
Queins’ product range covers column-type,
cantilever-type, bridge-type, self-traversing
portal-type, heavy rotating take-ups and pay-
offs for power and telecommunication cables, as
well as for several steel wire ropes. Also offered
are fork type rotating take-ups for direct pull
applications.
Standard sizes for take-ups and pay-offs are
manufactured in a range from 3 to 300 tons
of drum weight and for reel flange diameters
between 1,600mm (63") and 5,000mm (197").
Queins & Co GmbH – Germany
Fax : +49 2472 3014 • Email: • Website:
Aluminium wire rod pay-off type
ATV1800
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A heavy duty traversing
take-up stand for up to
23 tons load (with stainless
steel tubes) and reel flange
diameter of 3600mm (141")
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