摘要 |
An apparatus and method for forming and placing a skein of wire on a circular array of blades of coil insertion apparatus for subsequent transfer thereby to the slots of a dynamoelectric machine stator core member to form a wave winding. A generally circular skein of wire is generated and is then initially formed into an undulating configuration having at least two convexly curved loop sections respectively joined by connecting portions to intermediate, concavely curved sections. The thus-formed skein is thereafter transferred onto the blades of the coil insertion apparatus with the loop sections being disposed on the exterior of the array and respectively spanning first groups of the blades, the intermediate sections being disposed on the interior of the array and respectively spanning second groups of the blades, and the connecting portions respectively passing between respective pairs of blades at the ends of adjacent first and second groups. |