Patent ID: 9550650
Date: 2017-01-24
CPC Classifications: B65H

Claim:
1. A traverse device for winding a wire material onto a reel, the reel comprising a reel body extending along in a reel axis and first and second flanges, one on either end of the reel body, the device comprising: a guide roller having a guide groove on an outer circumference, the wire material being fed through the guide groove from a position on a side of the guide roller opposite to the reel body to a winding position at the reel body when the device is in use, wherein the winding position is a position along the traverse direction of the reel, a driving source configured and operably connected to move the winding position of the wire material with respect to the reel in a reel axis direction by moving the reel body and the guide roller with respect to one another, wherein the guide roller is placed near an outer circumference of a body of the reel, and inclined with respect to a rotation center located near a roller outer edge on a side near the outer circumference of the reel body, the rotation center forming a fulcrum about which the guide roller inclines when in use, the guide roller being configured to incline in a first direction with respect to the traverse direction between the fulcrum and the first reel flange, to incline in a second direction with respect to the traverse direction between the fulcrum and the second reel flange, and to be oriented in a perpendicular direction with the respect to the reel axis at the position at a midpoint along the reel body between the first and second flanges, wherein the reel or the guide roller is reciprocated in the reel axis direction to move the winding position along the reel body in a direction parallel to the reel axis, wherein the guide roller is placed at is placed at a position spaced 1 to 20 mm from the bare reel body having no winding, wherein every time the wire material is wound by one round, the guide roller is moved in a direction away from the reel body by the distance corresponding to the thickness of the wire material, and wherein the guide roller is inclined in a direction in which the roller outer edge recedes from a nearer reel flange on a side apart from the reel body.