Analysis of some problems in actual use of domestic frame twister
                    Jul 23, 2021
                
             1) Take-up and pay-off device
 In
 order to improve the quality of the stranded wire, reduce labor 
intensity, and shorten the estimated ground length of the frame 
stranding machine, walking type take-up and pay-off devices have been 
generally used to replace the past fixed take-up and pay-off racks.
 2) Threading die
 The
 threading die is a vulnerable part in the Rigid Frame Strander. The original 
bakelite material has been gradually changed to nylon and ceramics over 
the years.
 In Danggang steel materials, the current life of aluminum 
steel materials is 4-5 times longer than that of the previous Taolu 
materials.
 3) Supporting components
 In recent years, equipment 
manufacturers have paid more and more attention to the quality of their 
products. In order to solve the air leakage and oil leakage of the frame
 twister and improve the stability and reliability of the system, 
domestic famous brand products or Sino-foreign joint ventures should be 
selected as much as possible in the design. Pneumatic components and 
hydraulic components; now there are also imported components, but the 
price of the equipment should be higher. At the same time, improve the 
precision of machining, select the supporting factory for heat 
treatment, and ensure the quality of heat treatment of parts, so as to 
continuously improve the equipment The quality of manufacture and use 
reduces unnecessary maintenance.
 4) Twisting cage body drive
 In 
the frame stranding machine, the drive of each section of the frame 
stranding cage generally has two forms: one is that the frame stranding 
cage body is driven by the ground axis, the stranding cage gearbox 
drives the stranding cage body to rotate, and the operating handle can 
realize the reversing and idling rotation of the stranding cage. , 
Reliable, simple, low cost, in line with the traditional operating 
methods of cable manufacturers, accepted by the majority of cable 
manufacturers: in recent years, more and more equipment manufacturers 
have digested and absorbed the advanced level of foreign frame stranding
 machines and adopted Each section of the winch cage is driven by a 
separate DC motor. The DC motor is decelerated and driven by the 
secondary synchronous belt, and the frame winch starts slowly and 
smoothly; the operating parameters of the whole machine are set by the 
computer, and a pair of switches control automatically increase and 
decrease the speed slowly to ensure the frame , Traction and take-up are
 synchronized to ensure that the wire pitch remains unchanged when the 
equipment starts, accelerates, decelerates and stops. The split 
transmission frame twister has no shaft and gearbox, which simplifies 
the structure and greatly smoothes the production site. At the same 
time, it also greatly reduces the mechanical maintenance cost of the 
equipment. It is the development direction of the domestic frame 
twister.
 5) Safety device
 With the gradual promotion of mechanical
 upper and lower reels, the automatic winding has adopted an air thimble
 to tighten the upper reel. After the winding reel is tightened, a 
mechanical safety device is installed. At the same time, a limit control
 main motor is set on the mechanical safety device. When in the safety 
position, the main motor can be started. After continuous improvement 
and perfection, the rotary air joint and its sealing device in the frame
 twister now have a fairly good use effect.
 6) Tension control
 The
 single wire tension of the traditional stranding machine is uneven, and
 the pay-off tension on each pay-off reel is also inconsistent, which 
seriously affects the quality of the stranded wire. The frame winch is 
mostly pneumatically controlled, and the tension of the wire reel is 
controlled by pneumatic tension. The tension is automatically controlled
 by the pressure regulating proportional valve to ensure that the 
tension of the wire reel is even from the full reel to the empty reel. 
There is an uninterrupted air source device on the twisting cage.
 7) Disconnection control
 With
 the continuous increase of the speed of the frame winch, the 
instruction of the disconnection stop device is required to be agile, 
and the winch cage brakes quickly and smoothly. The disconnection 
parking device of the new frame twister adopts a non-contact probe to 
directly control each spool. As long as one of the spools is 
disconnected and stops, the broken frame number can be displayed on the 
console and the machine will stop in time. The length of the broken wire
 is about 1.5-2 meters to ensure the repair after the broken wire. The 
impact and damage of emergency braking to the equipment is very severe 
and should be minimized; therefore, the braking of the frame winch is 
usually divided into emergency braking and normal braking, and the 
normal braking time is longer.
 8) Traction device
 Frame stranding 
machine usually adopts double-wheel traction, and there are several 
structures of double-wheel traction, such as single-active, 
double-active, single-slotted wheel and double-slotted wheel, which 
should be selected according to the maximum traction of the stranded 
product. Among them, the line splitter is a natural line splitting to 
avoid wire core scratches during the line splitting process; the 
traction sheave uses an R groove and is equipped with a pneumatic 
crimping device to prevent the cable from loosening to prevent the cable
 from slipping when driving after parking.
 9) Pre-deformation device
 The
 frame stranding machine cannot be twisted back. When stranding the 
wire, internal stress is generated inside the single wire, which causes 
the wire to be twisted not tightly, and it is easy to loose strands, 
which brings trouble to construction. Therefore, in the production of 
overhead conductors, a single-wire pre-deformation device should be 
installed in front of the splitter plate of the stranding cage to 
eliminate the internal stress of the single-wire, and it can be removed 
at any time when not in use.
 10) Compression device
 In order to 
reduce the diameter of the conductive core and save materials, power 
cables, especially cross-linked cables, usually use compacted cores, 
with a compaction coefficient of about 0.85 to 0.9. The process of each 
factory is different, and it can be pressed by a mold or a roller. In 
order to facilitate layered compaction, after each section of the 
stranding cage, a set of paralleling mold bases and pressing devices are
 equipped, and the paralleling mold bases can be adjusted back and 
forth; the paralleling mold bases can be twisted or pulled at one time. 
Compression stranding; the rolling press roller frame is used to produce
 the rolling compaction of the sector-shaped conductor.
 11) Pre-twisting device
 The
 frame twister can be equipped with a pre-twisting device according to 
the needs of users, and the cable cores with a cross-section greater 
than 800mmz should use split conductors to reduce the skin effect of the
 cable. The transmission system of the traditional twisting machine's 
pre-twisting device is quite complicated, and the advance speed is 
driven by the earth axis, and the pitch adjustment will cause 
accumulated errors; the single DC motor drive frame twisting machine 
uses a separate DC electric drive pre-twisting device, pre-twisting 
joints The pitch is steplessly adjusted, and the high-precision 
electrical synchronization technology is used to automatically track the
 change of linear speed to ensure the stability of the pre-twist pitch. 
Our requirement for the pre-twisting device is that the pre-twisting 
pitch should be the same as the cable pitch after splitting the wires.
 12) Centralized upper and lower disks
 In
 order to reduce auxiliary time, reduce labor intensity, and improve 
productivity, more and more factories choose frame twisting units with 
centralized upper and lower disks. The centralized upper and lower 
devices can automatically complete the entire process of grabbing, 
turning, walking, and loading in sequence. Convenient and reliable. 
Common forms of upper and lower trays include top hoisting, bottom 
jacking, ground level flipping, and side bottom 30° flipping. At 
present, two forms of horizontal flipping on the ground and 30° flipping
 on the side are commonly used; the former is faster than the latter, 
but the estimated land area of the upper and lower parts is about twice 
as large. The factory can choose according to its actual situation. .
 13) Wire reel configuration
 In
 order to greatly improve the production capacity of the equipment, give
 full play to the variable speed function of the existing frame winch 
gearbox; some equipment manufacturers, in view of the frame winch in 
production and use, the speed of the front winch cage is faster, and the
 speed of the rear winch cage is slower. Phenomenon, the product design 
has been improved, and the number of spools on the front and rear frames
 of the frame twister has been appropriately changed. For example, some 
of the first three sections of the 18-reel (including 18-reels) 
frame-type winch cage are equipped with three wire reels (that is, 120° 
uniform distribution) on each level of each segment, and the frame-type 
winch cage after 18 reels In the above, each section of each section is 
equipped with four wire reels (that is, 90° uniformly distributed); 
there are also the first four sections of the 24 reels (including 24 
reels) frame-type winch cage, all of which are on each section of each 
section. Equipped with four wire reels (i.e. 90° uniformly distributed),
 and the frame-type stranding cage after 24 reels is equipped with five 
wire reels on each level of each section (ie 72° uniformly distributed);
 the above two kinds of wire reel configurations The structure has been 
proved to be feasible in practical applications.