Abstract: A carriage for displacing a cylindrical body into a winding machine, comprising two support elements (9) defining therebetween a space for receiving the body (2) and being adjustable with respect to each other in a transverse direction of the elements; fixed support plates (10) attached to the support elements for supporting the body; and a machinery for lifting and lowering the support plates. To measure the size of the body and to be able to adjust the winding machine in advance, the carriage comprises sensors (15, 18) for measuring the width and diameter of the body while the body is supported by the support plates; and a transmitter (24) for transmitting the measuring results to the winding machine.

Abstract: An apparatus for reeling or unreeling a cable, comprising an upright frame (1) and two supports (4) fastened vertically stationary to the frame, each support being provided with a vertically movable suspending arm (5) having a reel gripping pins at its lower end. To reduce the masses to be moved and to compensate for differences in the positions of the centers of a deformed reel, each stationary support (4) comprises an abutment (14) which in an uppermost position of the suspending arm (5) supports the suspending arm rigidly to the frame through the support, whereby each suspending arm (5) is supported by the stationary support by a spring (12) which in a lowered gripping position of the suspending arm allows a flexible movement of the suspending arm with respect to the support in the axial direction of the suspending arm and a horizontal swinging movement in a plane perpendicular to the axis of the reel.

Abstract: A carriage for the transportation of a cable reel, comprising two parallel support elements (2, 3) which form a space between them for a reel (6) and are displaceable with respect to each other in the transverse direction (B) of the support elements, and reel supports (10) mounted on the support elements for the reel. In order to transport the reels with their central axes (A) transversely to the driving direction of the carriage so that the axes of the reels are positioned, irrespective of the size of the reels, at a constant distance from a fixed reference point (12) in the carriage, the support elements are provided with vertically displaceable carrier wheels (7) and with displacing wheels (9), the axes (C) of which extend in the longitudinal direction of the support elements. When the support elements are lowered, the displacing wheels contact the underlying surface (11) only after the reel has made contact with the surface and the reel supports have released the reel.