WIRE MEASURING AND CUTTING APPARATUS

• Main Author: SCHAEFER O,US
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 13.11.1973
• Subjects: GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVINGMATERIAL; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PUNCHING METAL; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS; TRANSPORTING; WORKING OR PROCESSING OF METAL WIRE

For feeding a continuous strand of wire and for cutting the wire into segments of a selected length, the apparatus includes powered feed rollers which feed the wire in a path past a cutter mechanism, and includes a control mechanism for actuating the cutter. The control mechanism is synchronized with the wire feed rollers to effect the actuation of the cutter mechanism after the feed of a preselected length of wire. The control mechanism includes a program chain, or a plurality of interchangeable program chains, with the program chains carrying tripping lugs mounted at selected intervals to set up the apparatus for cutting the wire into segments of selected lengths. The apparatus has means for rendering the automatic program means ineffective and for manually operating the apparatus.