has claws that engage the coil at spaced apart locations between the posts and close around it. The arm first moves straight up to lift the coil off of the coiling posts, and then it swings laterally to carry the coil to a tying machine by which a wire tie is looped around the middle of the coil and twisted upon itself. The claws thereafter open to release the tied hank into a receptacle or onto a conveyor. Once the coil has been lifted away from the coiling posts, the operator can attach a new cord to the turntable and start a new winding cycle, so that winding of one cord can take place while a previously wound coil is being tied and released from the arm.
It isa known relationship to the turntable coiling posts. Grippers on the outer ends of the coiling posts close upon the cord near its gripped end, which is then released. The other end of the cord is slidably guided as it is being wound in towards the turntable. The mechanism for presenting cords to the coiling turntable is somewhat complicated, and further complications are involved in the grippers on the coiling posts and the mechanism for actuating them at appropriate times.
Although the automatic hanking machine of the copending application can be mounted adjacent to a lead forming machine to receive leads as they issue from it, and can coil and tie leads as quickly as they are produced, that hanking machine is mainly useful for special situations where it