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EuroWire – May 2007
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Equipment
for Wire Treatment
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Even the thickest wire is thin by ordinary standards
– and its ‘skin,’ thinner still.
Some idea of the challenge of working on that skin,
or imparting properties to it, can be gained from the
abstract of a patent (‘Wire Coil Guiding Device for Wire
Treatment’) chosen more or less at random from the
Internet. It reads:
“A rotating horizontal carrier shaft having the coils of
wires suspended and imparting to the coils rotative
movement about the shaft to transport the coils in a
direction generally parallel to the axis of the carrier
shaft. At least one guide disc is positioned on both
sides of the carrier shaft and the guide discs of each
of the guide disc devices is freely rotatable about a
rotational axis of the disc arranged to extend generally
parallel to the direction of transport of the wire coils.”
And so on. These sentences will give some sense
of the gingerly approach that is a staple of wire
treatment. And bear in mind that they refer only to the
presentation of the wire, in this case to a jet de-scaling
machine.
Without question, this is a province for experts . . .
Picture courtesy of Societa’
Industriale Bagnolo Srl, Italy
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