Abstract: A winding device for multiple wire wrapping a stationary object supplies the wires in a twist-free manner to a flyer that rotates around the stationary object. The wires are wound around the object by means of this flyer. Furthermore, one auxiliary arm is coupled to the flyer, which arm rotates synchronously with the flyer and which is provided with a guide device which guides the wires. A wire wrapping that changes winding directions is rendered possible in that at least one intermediate drum is provided, which is rotatably supported coaxially to the axis of rotation of the auxiliary arm and by way of which the wires are supplied from a stationary magazine to the guide device, whereby under the effect of force, the wires are able to be axially shifted on the intermediate drum from a winding point to an unwinding point. The circumference of the intermediate drum is smaller at the point where the wire unwinds than the wire length wound onto the object during a rotation of the flyer.

Abstract: A pick-off device for an automatic stacker useful in stacking laminations for electric machines in which the number of laminations required to form a stack is picked off by means of a head from an orderly supply of laminations stored in a magazine. The pick-off head can be tilted so that the picked-off lamination stack can be fed to a further processing station. In order to prevent individual laminations from dropping out when they are being picked off and to make it possible to vary the number of laminations picked-off, the laminations are arranged in the magazine on a horizontal carrier which is lined up with a take-up mandrel of the pick-up head, being aligned on the carrier by a guide bar connected to it. The take-up mandrel has a pick-off finger which fits into a cutout in the laminations and can be lifted relative to the carrier alone or together with the take-up mandrel to pick off the laminations.