APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR WINDING AND CUTTING WIRE OR CABLE

A system for winding wire includes a wire take-up unit and a wire cutter/grabber unit. The take-up unit includes rotatable first and second mandrel portions, and a wire directing traverse arranged tofeed wire and alternately form coils on the first and second mandrel portions. The cutter/grabber unit is configured to cut the wire at a cut position between the traverse and a coil formed on the first mandrel portion and to grab a free end of the cut wire and move along a predefined cutter/grabber pathway to a hand-off position where the wire is transferred to the second mandrel portion. As thecutter/grabber is moved along the pathway from the cut to the hand-off position, a length of wire between the traverse and the free end of the wire does not decrease, and that length of wire is longerat the hand-off position than at the cut position. 一种用于卷绕线的系统，包括线收紧单元和线切割器/抓取器单元。收紧单元包括可旋转的第一和第二心轴部分以及线导向横动件，该线导向横动件被布置成馈送线并在第一和第二心轴部分上交替地形成线圈。切割器/抓取器单元被构造成在横动件和形成在第一心轴部分上的线圈之间的切割位置处切割线，并且抓取所切割的线的自由端并沿着预定的切割器/抓取器路径移动到移交位置，在移交位