“Design of Wire Rope Straightener Equipped with Micrometer Screw Gauges”

Abstract

In wire rope production and processing, the straightening process defines the engineering and business variables which determine success or failure. Straightening is the process of releasing stresses, kinks from the just formed wire, and increasing strength and life of wire ropes. Most of the industries use conventional manual method to apply the forces. It is demand of wire industries from all over the world to replace this time consuming, manual method with standardized equipment that can reduce inaccuracy in application of forces and helps in maintaining a constant and desirable strength to wire rope. After a crucial study of various researches on the wire straightening unit, a model of a straightener has been designed to automate the force on the wire, using latest modeling software. This paper tried to fill up this gap with the well suitable model equipped with a set of digital micrometers.