Patent ID: 6273355
Filing Date: 2001-08-14
Classification: B01D

Abstract:
An apparatus for manufacturing a wound tube bundle for use in medical device applications, comprising:a tube;a tube shuttle shaped to receive and distribute the tube;a winding core having a body, a first winding disk and a second winding disk, the first winding disk attached to a first end of the body and the second winding disk attached to a second end of the body, wherein the first winding disk and the second winding disk are shaped to accept tube from the tube shuttle;a shuttle driver for rotating the tube shuttle about a shuttle axis in a circular winding motion; anda core driver for incrementally rotating the winding core about a longitudinal axis of the core, the longitudinal axis being substantially perpendicular to and substantially intersecting the shuttle axis, the shuttle driver and core driver being configured to rotate the shuttle and the winding core in a manner that distributes the tube on the winding core in layers, each layer having a plurality of rows, each row being substantially parallel to the other rows and substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the core.