Copper wire is a major conduction material that carries a variety of signals in\nindustry. Presently, automatic wire elongating machines to produce very thin wiresare available for\nmanufacturing. However, the original wires for the elongating process to thin sizes need heating,\ndrawing and then threadingthrough the die molds by the manpower before the machine starts to\nwork. This procedure repeatsuntil the wire threads through all various die molds. To replace the\nmanpower, this paper aims to develop an automatic wire die molds threading system for the wire\nelongation process. Three pneumatic grippers are designed in the proposed system. The first gripper\nis used to clamp the wire. The second gripper fixed in the rotating mechanism is to draw the heated\nwire. The third gripper is used to move the wire for threading through the dies mold. The force\ndesigned for drawing the wire can be adjusted via the gear ratio. The experimental results confirm\nthat the proposed system can accomplish the wiredies mold threading processin term of robustness,\nrapidness and accuracy.
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