Apparatus for paying off wire from a bobbin

Abstract From the Canadian patent

Wire payoff devices are described which are used in conjunction with bobbin supporting cradles typically found in wire stranding and cabling machines such as high speed tubular stranders, bow or skip stranders and planetary stranders. The payoff devices include dancer arrangements each having a pair of pulley wires mounted on a common support member which is itself mounted for independent movements along two substantially orthogonal directions. One of the pulley wheels is effectively fixed and continuously releases the wire along the axis of the cradle. The other or receiving pulley repeatedly traverses the axial width of the bobbin to follow the take-off points of the wire to provide …