Cage strander

With a cage strander complex cable composites are produced. For this several bobbins with the material to be stranded are mounted in big cages, which can revolt around the length axis of the stranding process. By doing so the materials are being twisted together. There are two different principles in cage stranding. One is planetary stranding, the other rigid. While planetary stranders create a torsion free strand, since the bobbins are back-twisted, rigid cage stranders don't. However for some products it does not matter if there is torsion in the prodcut (eg. wire amouring on cables).
Cage strandes are available in very different sizes and lenths. While samllest machines have only 6 pay-off bobbins of 400 mm (or even samller) diamter in one cage, bigger machines may have up to 4 cages with 6, 12, 18, 24 and 48 bobbins of up to 630 or even 1000 mm bobbin size. These are very big production facilities which require a lot of space.

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