Rubber and cord winding machine
Winding station that lays rubber and cord fabric onto the mandrel at a controlled angle and overlap, with the cycle blocked if the material angle is wrong.
Division: GANI Engineering
What the machine does, and how it is run.
This is the station that decides whether the finished air spring will hold pressure. Rubber and cord fabric are laid onto a mandrel at a controlled angle and overlap; the cord angle is what carries the load in service, so it is the one geometry in the whole process that cannot be corrected later.
Material alignment is set against laser references, and the machine will not run the cycle if the material angle is wrong. That interlock is the point of the machine: a bad wind is stopped at the station instead of being cured into a part that looks correct and fails on a truck.
It covers mandrel diameters in the 54 to 110 mm class over a 900 mm length, with a winding cycle in the 30 second to one minute range — fast enough to feed a vulcanization press directly, and flexible enough that a diameter change is a setup rather than a rebuild.
What it is made of.
- 01Laser references for material alignment
- 02Mandrel diameter class 54–110 mm, length 900 mm
- 03Angle-verification interlock
- 04Winding cycle in the 30 s to 1 min class
