Fiber winding machine

Claim 1

A FIBER WINDING DEVICE COMPRISING A SOURCE OF FIBER FORMING MATERIAL PROVIDING A DEFORMABLE FIBER, A FIBER WINDING DRUM ROTATABLY MOUNTED ON A SUPPORTING MEANS AND CONSTRUCTED AND ARRANGED WITH A PLURALITY OF PERIPHERAL GROOVES FOR RECEIVING A FIBER FROM SAID SOURCE, A VARIABLE SPEED DRIVING MEANS MOUNTED ON SAID SUPPORTING MEANS AND CONNECTED TO SAID DRIM FOR DRIVING SAID DRUM AT A SPEED TO PROVIDE A PREDETERMINED CHARACTERISTIC THICKNESS OF FIBER DRAWN FROM SAID SOURCE, SCANNING MEANS MOUNTED ON SAID SUPPORTING MEANS DRIVEN BY SAID DRIVING MEANS GUIDING SAID FIBER TO REPETITIVELY SCAN AT LEAST A PORTION OF ONE OF SAID GROOVES ON SAID WINDING DRIM FOR A PREDETERMINED NUMBER OF CYCLES, A CONTROL SYSTEM INCLUDING A COUNTER MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID SCANNING MEANS FOR COUNTING THE CYCLES OF SCAN OF SAID SCANNING MEANS AND AN ADJUSTABLE PRESET INDICATOR CONNECTED TO SAID COUNTER MEANS FOR ADJUSTABLE PRESETTING THE NUMBER OF CYCLES SAID SCANNING MEANS WILL SCAN EACH GROOVE OF SAID DRUM, AN INDEXING MEANS MOUNTED ON SAID SUPPORTING MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID CONTROL SYSTEM FOR CHANGING THE RELATIVE AXIAL POSITION BETWEEN SAID DRUM RELATIVE TO SAID SCANNING MEANS WHEN THE PRESET MEMBER OF SCANNING CYCLES HAVE BEEN COMPLETED FOR ONE OF SAID GROOVES TO THEREBY SUBSEQUENTLY SCAN ANOTHER GROOVE ON SAID WINDING DRUM.