Abstract: A winding machine for the winding of endless members such as toroidal cores (31) is designed with an exchangeable cassette (12) for a wire magazine (13), whereby the winding machine may be rapidly and readily readjusted from one winding operation to another requiring a different form or wire magazine. Guide means for rotational movement of the wire magazine are accommodated in the cassette, whereas all driving means (14-19) for rotating the magazine (13) are positioned in the machine frame (11). The cassette (12) is composed of two parts (12a, 12b) which are journalled with each other and may be opened and closed by operation of a common operator member (25) in the machine frame (11) which cause prismatic supports (37a, 37b) on which the magazine parts (12a, 27b) are supported to turn in reverse directions around a common axis (23).

Abstract: In a double-ring winding machine for winding of wire on closed core members such as toroidal cores comprising a wire magazine and an annular wire advancing member arranged concentrically to rotate about the same axis independent of each other, the wire magazine has an internal diameter exceeding the external diameter of the wire advancing member and the wire magazine and the wire advancing member are suspended in mutual radial alignment throughout their axial width. Wire is drawn out from the wire magazine through a bottom slit and guided through a hole in the wire advancing member during rotation of both and simultaneously wire is filled into the magazine through an opening in the external side thereof. The filling opening may have the form of a slit opposite the bottom slit whereby the wire magazine may be composed of two rings of semi-circular cross-section separated by the bottom and filling slits only, both of which may be wave-formed in the longitudinal direction.

Abstract: A wire magazine for winding wire for use in a winding machine for the winding of elongate members or cores, preferably endless cores, comprises two annular halves (9, 10) which are designed with thin walls of a substantially semicircular cross-sectional form to provide substantially closed storage space. The halves are separated by a wire filling slit (11) on the external side of the magazine and a bottom slit (12) on the underside of the magazine facing it axis of revolution, said bottom slit (12) being defined by edge portions of the two halves (9, 10) having walls, the surfaces of which deviate from a planar parallel relationship to the symmetry plane of the wire magazine normal to the axis of revolution.