Abstract: The instant invention is an improvement on a method of making wire coils comprising the steps of rolling a length of wire having a leading end and a trailing end and displacing the wire in a longitudinal travel direction and coiling the wire into succeeding overlapping loops and depositing same onto an upstream conveyor. The loops are transferred from the upstream conveyor to a downstream conveyor and are deposited from the downstream conveyor onto a centering device to form a coil thereon. The downstream conveyor is driven to move the loops at a generally constant slow transport speed but the upstream conveyor is driven to move the loops at a substantially faster transport speed when loops of a portion of the wire having one of the ends are being deposited on the upstream conveyor. Otherwise the upstream conveyor is driven at the same slow speed as the downstream conveyor so that the loops of the end portion will be spaced more in the travel direction than the other loops of the wire.

Abstract: The wire rolling mill has a plurality of roughing stands, a cropping shears, a finishing block, a coiler with a coiler pipe and a coiler drive including a coiler motor and a coiler gear unit and a delivery conveyor for the finished wire deposited in coils. The wire rolling mill also has a controller with a computer which controls the cropping shears with a predetermined rolling program by a computer shear command. The cropping shears cuts away a cropped length from the rolled wire rod workpiece prior to entry in the finishing block defined in the computer shear command thus producing a wire head to be deposited in coils. The cropped length of the wire is put in line with the position of the coiler. The coiler is provided with a rotation angle position transmitter operating with digital pulses which is connected with the controller and whose angular position corresponds to the coiler pipe positions.