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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4842208 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing wound core When a wound core is manufactured by winding a continuous strip having a desired shape on a winding spool, a thickness of the strip is measured and summed at predetermined periods. The winding operation of the strip on the winding spool is stopped when th... | 06/27/1989 |
| 4830298 | Self-centering sheave for filaments Antifriction sheaves, or pulley assemblies, are mounted in a bearing plate to form a filament guide for a winding machine. The pulley assemblies each comprise a bearing disk mounted in the bearing plate for pivotal motion about an axis perpendicular to th... | 05/16/1989 |
| 4814731 | Superconducting dipole electromagnets and process for producing the same An improved process for producing superconducting dipole electromagnets is proposed. A plurality of coil cables are fed simultaneously toward and wound around a core so as to form a plurality of layers superimposed upon one another in the direction of thi... | 03/21/1989 |
| 4763848 | Winding support for use in manufacturing saddle-type coils By providing steps on the inner form of the winding support used for the winding of saddle-type coils, the turns of the saddle-type coil are exactly fixed in their positions. In this way the tolerances of the magnetic field produced with the aid of such c... | 08/16/1988 |
| 4709470 | Method and apparatus for fabricating a curved magnet coil A method and apparatus for fabricating a curved disc-shaped magnet coil, especially for particle accelerators. The conductor is wound around a coil form which has a convex outside and a concave inside with therefore a partly negative curvature, using elem... | 12/01/1987 |
| 4699184 | Apparatus and method for fabricating a high voltage winding for a toroidal transformer A toroidal electrical transformer having a low voltage coil, a high voltage coil and an annular magnetic core is disclosed. The preferred low voltage and high voltage coils are each continuous and form an arcuate elongated passage therethrough. The prefer... | 10/13/1987 |
| 4649308 | Electric motor template-wound coil A coil for an electric motor, which is to be inserted into a pole shoe and is wound, before the insertion, in a template, includes two cases of insulating material, which are positioned in mirror-inverted relationship with one another. Pockets are provide... | 03/10/1987 |
| 4572446 | Process for making a fiber bundle A bundle (12) of hollow fiber (34) is formed by winding a length of hollow fiber around a core (38) from an arm (20) that is in a plane at an acute angle with respect to the longitudinal axis of the core and is between opposite ends of the core. Relative ... | 02/25/1986 |
| 4538771 | Apparatus for testing the integrity of an electrical coil as it is wound In the manufacture of electrical coils (10), particularly large transformer coils, an insulated wire (11) is wound on a rotatable winding arbor (12) so as to form a succession of turns of the insulated wire. Particularly when large gauge enamelled copper ... | 09/03/1985 |
| 4529139 | Method of manufacturing a filament wound article Elongate articles of non-circular cross section such as those of an airfoil cross section are constructed by winding filamentary material in layers about a form between a pair of spaced turnarounds generally conforming in shape to the cross sectional shap... | 07/16/1985 |
| 4428540 | Apparatus for maintaining the relative position between wire being fed onto a bobbin and wire wound about the bobbin for forming a coil of wire An apparatus for maintaining the relative position between wire being fed onto a bobbin and wire wound about the bobbin for forming a coil comprising guide means for guiding the wire onto the bobbin; a sensing arm movably responsive to shifting of the wir... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4417698 | Winding process for cathode-ray tube deflection rings The invention refers to a process and a machine making it possible to achieve improved winding of turns of electrical wire on a cathode ray tube deflection ring. According to the invention, the machine includes three axes X, Y, Z with motor means. The win... | 11/29/1983 |
| 4373680 | Coiling process and apparatus by radially winding a filament The invention discloses a process and an apparatus for coiling a member by radially winding a continuous filament on to a mandrel. It also discloses the member obtained by this process. The apparatus for coiling the filament or thread (36) consists of a f... | 02/15/1983 |
| 4249704 | Automatic taping apparatus A rotary annulus holding a tape feed reel is moved along a taped body while revolving about the body in a plane normal to its longitudinal axis to wind a tape around the body under the control of a small-scaled computer. The computer stores many coordinat... | 02/10/1981 |
| 4196863 | Tape winding apparatus A tape winding apparatus including a base member which revolves around a body around which a tape is wound such as a coil conductor used in a large-size rotary machine and advances or retreats in the axial direction of the revolution; first supporting mea... | 04/08/1980 |
| 4131242 | Universal winding arbor A method and apparatus for a universal winding arbor including an arbor core adapted for use with a plurality of differently sized arbor blocks in winding transformers of different sizes. Each differently sized arbor block may be formed in a unique mold w... | 12/26/1978 |
| 4106709 | Method of and apparatus for serving helical coils with a protective band A helical induction coil of large diameter which is to be served with a protective band is suspended from a driving roller having a substantially horizontal axis of rotation so that the coil axis is substantially horizontal. A serving device is supported ... | 08/15/1978 |
| 4097987 | Method of manufacturing an inductive coil A method of manufacturing an inductive device of the type having a bobbin of insulating material on which a coil of wire is wound in which a bobbin of heat settable material is provided having at least one thinned down edge portion on at least one of its ... | 07/04/1978 |
| 4093132 | Method of winding a magnetic deflection yoke The method of winding a cathode ray tube, magnetic deflection yoke. The yoke is formed with an annular core with non-electrically conductive, non-magnetic end caps. The end caps have a series of hook members separated by slots, with the slots of one end c... | 06/06/1978 |
| 4020996 | Method and apparatus for winding elongated coils A coil winding machine for winding arrays of closely-spaced, irregularly shaped coils utilizes a winding head that moves elliptically about the coil being wound. The elliptical motion permits compact arrays to be produced economically by allowing more clo... | 05/03/1977 |
| 3989200 | Non-circular perfect layer electrical coils An unorthodox cross-sectional shape for the bobbin or mandrel upon which wire is wound makes possible high speed production of non-circular perfect layer coils.... | 11/02/1976 |
| 3940073 | Apparatus for wrapping a compound-curved conductor bar An apparatus is described for wrapping a compound-curved conductor bar. It includes a winding head which is provided with a motor-driven winding ring equipped with rolls carrying insulating tape. According to the invention, the revolving winding ring is h... | 02/24/1976 |
