Capacitor winding machines

Claim 1

AN AUTOMATIC CAPACITOR WINDING MACHINE COMPRISING (A) MEANS FOR SUPPORTING A SUPPLY OF FLEXIBLE STRIPS SUITABLE FOR FORMING A CAPACITOR ELEMENT, (B) A GUIDE, (C) MEANS FOR LEADING THE STRIPS THROUGH THE GUIDE TO BRING THEM INTO THE FORM OF A COMPOSITE STRIP, (D) A TWO-PART MANDREL ON WHICH THE ELEMENT CAN BE FORMED COMPRISING TWO FINGERS, MEANS FOR SUPPORTING EACH FINGER FROM ONE END ONLY IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY FIT TOGETHER SIDE BY SIDE TO MAKE UP A BARREL ON WHICH THE ELEMENT IS WOUND WITH THE TWO SUPPORTING MEANS AT OPPOSITE ENDS OF THE BARREL, MEANS LOCATED NEAR THE ROOT OF EACH FINGER, THAT IS NEAR THE END FROM WHICH IT IS SUPPORTED, FOR RECEIVING THE FREE END OF THE OTHER FINGER AND URGING IT TOWARDS THE AXIS OF THE MANDREL AND AT LEAST ONE PROJECTION ON THE FACE OF EACH FINGER THAT LIES ADJACENT AND PARALLEL TO THE CORRESPONDING FACE OF THE OTHER FINGER NEAR ITS ROOT, RISING TO A PREDETERMINED HEIGHT ABOVE THE FACE, WHEREBY A PREDETERMINED SMALL CLEARANCE IS MAINTAINED BETWEEN THESE FACES OF THE FINGERS, (E) A CLAMP FOR THE COMPOSITE STRIP, (F) MEANS FOR ROTATING THE TWO-PART MANDREL WHEN IN A FIRST POSITION, TO DRAW STRIPS OF THE FLEXIBLE MATERIAL THROUGH THE GUIDE AND WIND THEM IN THE FORM OF A COMPOSITE STRIP ON TO THE MANDREL TO BUILD UP A CAPACITOR ELEMENT, (G) MEANS FOR STOPPING THE MANDREL WHEN IT IS IN A PREDETERMINED ANGULAR POSITION AND A PREDETERMINED LENGTH OF FLEXIBLE MATERIAL HAS BEEN WOUND THEREON, (H) MEANS FOR INSERTING, WHILE THE MANDREL IS STATIONARY, A FIRST TERMINAL TAB BETWEEN A PAIR OF STRIPS BEING WOUND ON THE MANDREL AND IN CONTACT WITH ONE ELECTRODE OF THE CAPACITOR, (I) MEANS FOR ROTATING THE MANDREL, AFTER THE FIRST TERMINAL TAB HAS BEEN INSERTED, THROUGH A PREDETERMINED ANGLE,