摘要 |
Apparatus for guiding and controlling the paying off of wire from a drum for continuously feeding wire to a twisting machine or the like. The wire, stored in coils arranged around a cylindrical body is guided in its generally helical upward path by contact with a ring rotating with a peripheral speed four times the speed of linear advancement of the wire to prevent damage from rubbing of the wire against the cylindrical body about which it has been coiled. Means are provided for controlling the rate of rotation of the ring in response to the speed of the wire. |