Precision winder for drawing and packaging synthetic fibers

摘要

A winder for directly drawing glass fibers and the like to form a precision wound package. The winder employs a traverse mounted in a fixed position and a spindle mounted in parallel relationship to the traverse for movement toward and away therefrom in a rectilinear path extending normal to the traverse. A sensor is provided to sense the distance between the traverse and a package of windings on the spindle, and motion imparting means for the spindle is associated with the sensor and the spindle to move the spindle relative to the traverse to maintain a substantially constant distance between the traverse and the package. As a result of the fixed position of the traverse and the constant distance maintained between the package and the traverse, the angle at which fibers are drawn onto the spindle is also maintained constant.