Abstract: A continuous dual spooler and a drive for driving the arbors selectively and controllably to wind wire on a full reel while stopping the other reel to permit replacement thereof with an empty reel. During transfer a snagger, mounted on a plate arranged for rotation about the axis of the reel, snags the wire and winds an initial number of turns of the wire onto the empty reel. Pins or other projections, mounted on a pin plate arranged substantially in the plane of the snagger plate for rotation about the axis of the reel, initially rotate in synchronism with the snagger plate and extends into the path of the snagged end of the wire when the snagger and pin plates rotate relative to each other. A control, together with the drive, temporarily disengage the arbor from the snagger and pin plate to allow free wheeling of the reel.

Abstract: This rotational tape accumulator wraps slack tape in spirals during times that the tape is being fed to a machine for making cable or other continuous product. When the trailing end of a tape must be stopped to splice on a new length, the accumulated tape is unwound from the accumulator to maintain a continuous supply. This invention forms two reels of tape spirally wound from the same length of tape with each additional layer supplied to the inside of the reel during accumulation. This arrangement stores long lengths of tape with equipment that is more compact than other forms of tape accumulators.