Abstract: An apparatus and method for placing magnet wire in the slots respectively defined by spaced, parallel blades of coil transfer apparatus which lie on an imaginary cylinder thereby to form a dynamoelectric machine field winding. The wire is pushed and simultaneously guided with a motion having components in at least two mutually perpendicular directions in a path having sections respectively aligned with at least two of the slots thereby to push the wire into the slots, the path also having sections respectively within and outside of the cylinder.

Abstract: A variable speed drive consisting of a control gear train made up of a central gear which is eccentrically adjustable, an intermeshing walking gear and an overrunning gear form a speed control gear train with the gears connected together by a linkage which includes a hinge connection between the gears. The speed control gear train develops an output speed for the overrunning gear which is a direct function of the degree of the eccentricity of the central gear. The overrunning gear is operatively connected through a second gear train to an output. By controlling the eccentric position of the central gear it is possible, while the gears are running, to control the output speed by simply regulating the eccentric position of the nonrotatable central gear of the speed control gear train.