Patent ID: 6595462
Filing Date: 2003-07-22
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
A device for measuring and dispensing multiple elongated lengths of wire at a desired wire length from a single supply spool of wire, said device comprising:a stationary member; a first plurality of pulleys rotatably attached to said stationary member; a supply spool rotatably attached to said stationary member, said supply spool having a wire wound thereon; a mobile member; a second plurality of pulleys rotatably attached to said mobile member; and wherein said wire on said supply spool is looped once about each of said second plurality of pulleys on said mobile member, and once about each of said first plurality of pulleys on said stationary member in an alternating fashion in accordance with the number of elongated lengths of wire desired, and wherein said mobile member is displaced from said stationary member a distance equal to the desired wire length and said wires are cut from said first and second plurality of pulleys.