Patent ID: 6948676
Filing Date: 2005-09-27
Classification: H01F,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method of winding toroid cores comprising the steps of: attaching a block of ferrous material which has magnetic properties to a first end of a conductive wire; providing a notched glass plate, said glass plate having an upper surface and a bottom surface, said glass plate laying in a horizontal plane; placing a toroid having a central opening in a holding assembly adjacent to said notched glass plate, the toroid being positioned within the glass plate notch and positioned in a vertical plane, said toroid having a circumferential plane transverse to the plane of the glass plate; providing a rotating element positioned beneath and parallel to the glass plate bottom surface, said element being rotated by a drive bar, said element being rotated in a plane parallel to the plane of the glass bottom surface, said rotating element having an upper surface with two opposite ends, one end having a magnet fixedly attached thereto; attaching a second end of said conductive wire to the toroid; providing a feeder assembly adapted to placing the block initially through the toroid central opening onto to the glass plate upper surface; rotating said rotating element wherein said magnet magnetically engages said block, said block moving with said magnet and swinging in a general circular motion out toward the glass plate perimeter, said block passing through said toroid central opening; continuing rotation of said rotating element until all of said wire is wound about the toroid.