Patent ID: 8695318

Claim:
A method for manufacturing a cable bead, comprising the steps of: arranging a plurality of carriages, each carrying an annular core and a reel wound with a wire, around a reel revolving unit, the reel revolving unit configured to revolve the reel with two arms thereof; holding the core with one of the arms and setting the core on a core rotating unit, the core rotating unit disposed near the reel revolving unit to rotate the core in a circumferential direction, and holding the reel with the other of the arms and positioning the reel on one side of the core set on the core rotating unit; manufacturing a cable bead by winding the wire helically around the core, with the reel revolved as the reel is held alternately by each of the two arms and the core rotated circumferentially in association with the revolution of the reel; and holding the manufactured cable bead with an arm not holding the reel and returning the cable bead and the reel to the carriage.