A configuration and method for straightening a wire as the wire pays off from a bulk package. A bulk package hat is configured to be positioned over an opened bulk package containing wire bent in a helix shape. A bearing assembly is mounted inside the bulk package hat at a position where the wire exits the bulk package hat as the wire pays off from the bulk package. A wire straightening device has a plurality of rollers and only one single plane of straightening, and is configured to apply a counter bend to the wire as the wire pays off from the bulk package through the wire straightening device. The wire straightening device is operatively connected to the bearing assembly at an angle inside the bulk package hat. The bearing assembly and the single plane of straightening rotate, continually realigning with a current direction of the wire as it pays off.

A system and method for cleaning, protecting and lubricating hyperbolic rollers and bearings for bending, using air and oil, placed in a rotating rotor (1) that contains rollers (32) placed on bearings (34) and shafts (33) inside roller housings (30), where rollers (32) are positioned at an angle with respect to the bending axis and, as bending occurs they cause bending and also as rotor (1) rotates around the item being bent it straightens and feeds the item. Rollers (32) are placed on bearings (34) and are protected through rotational seals (35). The bearings' (34) area of rollers (32) inside the rotational seal (35) is supplied with air at pressure higher than the atmospheric, so that inflow of contaminants are inhibited, or is supplied with air enriched with oil so that bearings (34) are lubricated, and rotational seals (35) located next to bearings (34) of the rollers (32) allow the air flow from the area between the bearings towards the surrounding area.

Provided is an electric wire straightening device capable of correcting a twist generated around an axis of an electric wire. An electric wire correcting device includes an electric wire holding part provided rotatably around an axis of the electric wire for holding an electric wire having been withdrawn from an electric wire reel so as to further withdraw the electric wire toward a side opposite to the electric wire reel and, a rotation driving part rotating the electric wire holding part in an twist backing direction opposite to a twist around an axis of the electric wire occurring in the electric wire between the electric wire reel and the electric wire holding part by further withdrawing the electric wire from the electric wire holding part.

A method for manufacturing a straight steel monofilament for the reinforcement of belt ply of a pneumatic tyre, where the arc-height of the straight steel monofilament is less than 30 mm. The steel monofilament is plastically deformed by a twisting along the axis of the steel monofilament on a double-twist apparatus. The plastic twist deformation eliminates the surface stress difference on the steel monofilament and provides a strainght steel monofilament for belt ply reinforcement. This provides a simple solution with existing apparatus to manufacture straight steel monofilament suitable for tire reinforcement with high speed for mass production.

A method and a device untwists and smooths a cable end of a cable formed from single lines twisted in a twisting direction, using the device. The device includes an untwisting gripper having first and second untwisting jaws; a clamping gripper upwards of the untwisting gripper in the cable run having first and second clamping plates; and a cable gripper upwards of the clamping gripper. The method includes gripping the cable using the cable gripper; introducing the cable end between the open clamping gripper plates and the open untwisting gripper jaws; closing the plates and jaws; rotating the untwisting gripper counter to the twisting direction for untwisting the cable end; opening the jaws, reducing the jaws-plates distance and closing the plates; and smoothing the cable end by enlarging the distance between cable gripper and clamping gripper when the cable is clamped and simultaneously performing oscillating rotational untwisting gripper movements.

A forming machine that produces formed parts of a complex design from straight workpieces from wire or tube includes a computerized numerical control unit; a plurality of workstations including a loading station, a first machining station downstream of the loading station, and at least one second machining station downstream of the first machining station, wherein at least two of the machining stations are forming stations; and a transport system that transports successive workpieces from the loading station to downstream workstations while under control by the control unit.

A wire feeding unit includes a pair of wire feeding portions, wherein each of the wire feeding portions includes a driving roller which is driven by rotation power, a belt which is connected to the driving roller to rotate and is brought into contact with a wire while being rotated, at least one driven rollers which are rotated by being coupled with the driving roller by the belt, and a guide portion which is placed to pressurize the belt to one side and guides a position of the belt such that the wire is moved by the belt, wherein the pair of wire feeding portions are symmetrically disposed and one of the guide portions is disposed to face the one side of the other.

A bending and molding mechanism includes two bases, wherein the bases are provided with a transverse sliding rail, two transverse sliding bases are disposed on the transverse sliding rail in a sliding manner, the base is provided with a transverse driving device driving the transverse sliding bases, the base is provided with a central clamping device, the transverse sliding bases are provided with a longitudinal sliding rail, the longitudinal sliding rail is provided with a longitudinal sliding base, the transverse sliding bases are provided with a longitudinal driving device driving the longitudinal sliding base to slide, the longitudinal sliding base is provided with a bending and molding device, one side of the transverse sliding base at the left side is provided with a left clamping device, and one side of the transverse sliding base at the right side is provided with a right clamping device.

A system and method for cleaning, protecting and lubricating hyperbolic rollers and bearings for bending, using air and oil, placed in a rotating rotor (1) that contains rollers (32) placed on bearings (34) and shafts (33) inside roller housings (30), where rollers (32) are positioned at an angle with respect to the bending axis and, as bending occurs they cause bending and also as rotor (1) rotates around the item being bent it straightens and feeds the item. Rollers (32) are placed on bearings (34) and are protected through rotational seals (35). The bearings' (34) area of rollers (32) inside the rotational seal (35) is supplied with air at pressure higher than the atmospheric, so that inflow of contaminants are inhibited, or is supplied with air enriched with oil so that bearings (34) are lubricated, and rotational seals (35) located next to bearings (34) of the rollers (32) allow the air flow from the area between the bearings towards the surrounding area.

The present application provides a machine and a method of introducing a camber into a length of wire being conveyed along a path through a machine. As part of introducing the camber, the wire is guided through the machine via at least a first set of rollers and a second set of rollers. The wire being conveyed along the path is diverted via an offset mechanism, which laterally deflects the wire being conveyed away from a straight line route formed between respective wire feed points associated with each of the first and second sets of rollers, wherein the offset mechanism is located between the first set of rollers and the second set of rollers. The diversion in the path of the wire via the offset mechanism introduces the camber having a direction into the wire.