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Electrically and hydraulically powered gantry-type pay-off and take-up units
Drouaire & Fils SA, France, specialises in the design, development and supply of high-tech machines for electric, coaxial, twisted optical fibre and computer cables, as well as winding machines for wire and cable, copper tubing, rubber sections and ropes. The company�s range of cable winding machines features modern state-of-the-art technology, using a combination of electrical and hydraulic power. The result is the most rapid and easily operated unit of this kind available.

The company offers a series of machines suitable for small drums (less than 1.4m �) and featuring pay-off, traversing unit and take-up that can be all-in-one machine, making this series suitable for both cable suppliers and users. With the same machine, the operator can wind either on a coiler or on a drum. The selection is easy and rapid, in accordance with security (CE-labelled). For bigger and heavier drums ranging from 1.4 up to 3.4m �), Drouaire offers a gantry-type equipment. For this equipment, the traversing unit is motorised and controlled by PLC to perfectly wind the cable on the drum.

Besides a wide range of winding and handling material, comprising triangular elevating lines, gantry elevating lines, motorised hydraulic winding unit, cable reel unwinding and cutting stands, double reeling units, and elevating lines for wire, the company offers its mobile rewinding table, Bobicab II, for the hydraulic winding of coils on a capstan or drum with diameters ranging from 600 up to 1,200mm. The Bobicab II is designed for the winding of drums held between adhesion points by a 500mm � rubber flange. Drums are loaded into the working position and unloaded onto the ground by means of a controlled hydraulic system. Several options are available for fitting into the Bobicab frame, including coil unwinding device, drum unwinding device, hydraulic advance of the points, return gantry for unwinding, extendable stand, electronic shuttling cable.

 
Pay-off 2,600 and take-up 2,600 with "U -cycle" for empty drums and filled drums
Company:
Drouaire & Fils SA
Address:
Zone Industrielle - F-47160 Villefranche-du-Queyran - , France
Fax:
+33 5 53 88 76 49
Email:
[email protected]
Web:
www.drouaire.com