The wire is fed from a spool to a custom attachment sitting atop a stepper motor, which looks very much like an extruder from a 3D-printer. The wire is fed through a stiff plastic tube into the ...

The machine’s feeding system can take a spool of raw material weighing up to 30 lb, and measuring up to 4 in. in width and between 0.1 and 14 in. in diameter, and transfer it to another spool—all ...

Coiling machines from materialhandling equipment maker Tulsa Power in Oklahoma once relied on operators to swap out empty spools. The new cut-and-transfer (ACT) coilers automatically swap spools ...