Abstract: An apparatus and method for automatically forming pompons from a continuous strip of fringed web includes a pair of clamping jaws for gripping and advancing the web to a coiling station, a separable coiling spindle, and a binding tongs mechanism. When the web is moved to the coiling station, the coiling spindles are inserted into an aperture in the clamping jaws and clamp the end of the web. Thereafter, the clamping jaws are released and moved back to their initial position while the coiling spindle is rotated to coil a predetermined length of the fringed web. The binding tongs are then moved over the coiled section and draw a binding wire tightly about the periphery of the coil after the web is severed to separate the coil therefrom. The binding tongs are closed to clamp the binding wire and then are rotated to secure the wire about the coiled web. Closing of the tongs cuts the wire.

Abstract: A machine for manufacturing garlands comprising a device for producing a tube from filament-like or strip-like material on two conveyor screws arranged at a distance from one another, which are mounted on one side, driven at the same speed in opposite directions, and have opposite threads by using two parallel pairs of threads, each of said pairs of threads consisting of a core wire or thread extending through a longitudinal bore of said conveyor screws, and an outer wire or thread, and means for twisting said pairs of wire or thread around sections of said winding material, said sections being formed by severing said tube, and with means for drawing off the pairs of wire or thread. The conveyor screws are located at two corners of an imaginary polygon which is symmetrical around the center of the line connecting said corners.