Patent ID: 6869493
Filing Date: 2005-03-22
Classification: B65H,H01B

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for manufacturing wire comprising: a machine frame; a hollow rotation seat on the machine frame being rotatably coupled to drive means; an upright hollow shaft fixedly coupled to a center of the rotation seat so that the rotation seat, the drive means, and the follow shall are capable of rotating simultaneously; and a spool having a hollow cylinder as a rotation shaft being sleeved on the hollow shaft, a rim at either end, and a portion between said rims on which at least one flat, light, and smooth tape is to be wound, wherein the lower rim is secured on a top of the rotation seat and is shaped as an inverted cone having a first diameter at a top end of the portion on which the tape is to be wound that is larger than a second diameter at a lower end of the portion on which the tape is to be wound; before wrapping the tape on at least one wire, the wire is threaded through the rotation seat and the hollow shaft from a bottom of the rotation seat, is pulled out from a top of the hollow shall to the take-up means, and then one end of the tape is wrapped on the wire above the hollow shaft; while activating the drive means and the take-up means to rotate the spool, the tape is unwound from the spool due to a centrifugal force of rotation, and continuously wrapped on the wire, wherein the rotation seat is coupled to the lower rim so that the spool rotates with the rotation seat.