Patent ID: 6902132

Claim:
Apparatus for winding coils of wire around poles of dynamo-electric machine components, comprising: an arm configured to rotate a nozzle that dispenses wire for winding onto a pole of a dynamo-electric machine component, wherein the pole is elongated in one dimension, wherein one end of the elongation is a first end and the other end of the elongation is a second end, and wherein the arm is configured to rotate the nozzle when the nozzle is near the first and the second ends of the arm during winding; and a carriage configured to provide relative motion between the arm and the pole during winding, wherein the trajectory of the nozzle with respect to the pole during winding is non-circular, and wherein the carriage is configured to provide relative motion between the arm and the pole when the nozzle is between the first and the second ends of the arm.