Continuous winder

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A CONTINUOUS COIL WINDING MACHINE COMPRISING: MEANS FOR ADVANCING A CONTINUOUS CORE MANDREL ALONG A PREDETERMINED AXIS AT A PREDETERMINED LONGITUDINAL VELOCITY; A ROTATABLE WINDING CAGE DISPOSED SUBSTANTIALLY CONCENTRICALLY ABOUT SAID AXIS AND HAVING AXIALLY SPACED END PORTIONS; STATIONARY SUPPORTING MEANS HAVING CAGE JOURNALS DISPOSED IN FRICTION MINIMIZING ROTATIONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH EACH OF SAID END PORTIONS OF SAID CAGE; A HOLLOW SHAFT DISPOSED CONCENTRICALLY ABOUT SAID AXIS AND EXTENDING THEREALONG THROUGH ONE OF SAID END PORTIONS CONCENTRICALLY WITH ONE OF SAID CAGE JOURNALS; A SEGMENT OF SAID SHAFT WITHIN SAID CAGE JOURNALS; MOVABLE AND ADAPTED TO SUPPORT A SPOOL FOR RETAINING WIRE, PARTING MEANS AT ONE END OF SAIDSEGMENT FOR ENGAGEMENT WITH THE REMAINDER OF SAID SHAFT, AND SPRING MEANS AT THE OTHER END OF SAID SEGMENT CONTINUOUSLY URGING SAID PARTING MEANS INTO ENGAGEMENT WITH THE REMAINDER OF SAID SHAFT, SAID SEGMENT BEING REMOVABLE FROM SAID CAGE BY DISENGAGEMENT OF SAID PARTING MEANS FROM SAID SHAFT; AT LEAST THREE ELONGATED WIRE DRIVING CYLINDERS DISPOSED PARALLEL TO SAID AXIS AND DISPLACED RADIALLY APPROXIMATELY EQUALLY THEREFROM, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN AT LEAST TWO IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT CYLINDERS BEING GREATER THAN THE DIAMETER OF A SPOOL FOR CONTAINING WIRE; MEANS CARRIED BY SAID CAGE FOR ROTATABLY SUPPORTING SAID CYLINDERS THEREWITHIN WITH ROTATIONAL FREEDOM WITH RESPECT TO SAID CAGE; FIRST CYLINDER DRIVING MEANS CONCENTRICALLY AFFIXED TO EACH OF SAID CYLINDERS; A SECOND DRIVING MEANS COUPLED TO SAID FIRST DRIVING MEANS OF SAID WIRE DRIVING CYLINDERS; AN ELONGATED DRIVING SHAFT AFFIXED IN DRIVING RELATIONSHIP TO SAID SECOND DRIVING MEANS; WIRE DIRECTION CHANGING MEANS AFFIXED TO THE INTERIOR OF SAID CAGE AND SUPPORTED THEREBY FOR DIRECTING WIRE, AFTER SAID WIRE HAS TRANSVERSED SAID WIRE DRIVING CYLINDERS, RADIALLY TOWARDS SAID MANDREL; WIRE GUIDE MEANS AFFIXED TO SAID CAGE AND INTERPOSED BETWEEN SAID MANDREL AND SAID WIRE DIRECTION CHANGING MEANS; AND INTER-COUPLED ROTATIONAL MOTIVATION MEANS COUPLED TO SAID DRIVING SHAFT AND TO SAID ROTATABLE WINDING CAGE WHEREBY BOTH ARE SIMULTANEOUSLY ANGULARLY DRIVEN AND SAID CAGE IS ROTATED AT AN ANGULAR VELOCITY HAVING A PREDETERMINE RELATIONSHIP WITH RESPECT TO THE ANGULAR VELOCITY OF SAID ELONGATED WIRE DRIVING CYLINDERS.