Automatic Steel Wire Straightening and Cut-to-Length Machine, φ ≤ 3 mm WM-595

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The WM-595 straightens stainless steel wire off the coil and cuts it to length in one pass, from 0.1 to 9,999 mm, at 1,500 to 2,000 pieces per hour. Wire enters through a nine-roller straightening head, is driven by four rubber-faced wheels, and is sheared by a pneumatic blade landing on a replaceable V-notch die block in tungsten steel or high-speed steel. Length, feed speed, cut speed and batch count are set on an English-language colour touch screen that holds 100 job programs. The machine itself is a 52 kg bench cabinet measuring 500 × 400 × 360 mm; long parts run out onto a separate support rail.

Specifications

Key features

• Nine grooved rollers in two staggered rows take the cast out of the wire before it reaches the cutter, so the piece leaves the machine straight rather than holding the curve of the coil
• Four rubber-faced drive wheels in two opposed pairs push the wire to length over a wide contact patch, and a single Open/Close roller lever releases them for threading and for wire changes
• The cut is a pneumatic shear stroke, not a saw or an abrasive wheel — no sparks, no swarf, nothing to clean off a stainless surface
• The blade lands on a replaceable V-notch die block in tungsten steel or high-speed steel; the die seats the wire at the moment of the cut and is changed to match the wire diameter
• English colour touch screen sets length, feeding speed, cutting speed, batch quantity and single count, with 100 stored programs for shops that change length several times a shift
• Listed cut length spans 0.1 mm to 9,999 mm; we confirm the usable length range, support and handling for your wire in a sample trial
• 52 kg on a 500 × 400 × 360 mm footprint, running on single-phase 220 V and 0.4–0.7 MPa shop air, so it drops onto a bench rather than needing a foundation
• Free sample test: send 2–3 m of your actual wire, we run it on this machine and send you the video and the cut pieces before you order

What it processes

• Straightened stainless steel wire blanks for wire forming, bending and welded assemblies
• Mesh, grille, shelving and display wire cut to repeat lengths from coil
• Straight pins, stays, rods and tie wire produced in a benchtop cell rather than on a press line
• Job shops that change wire length and batch size several times a day and need the settings recalled rather than re-dialled

Suited for: stainless and bright steel wire up to φ3 mm cut from coil to repeat lengths between 0.1 and 9,999 mm, where the piece has to come off the machine straight and the shop changes length often enough to want the settings stored rather than re-dialled.

Not suited for: multi-strand steel wire rope, which needs a machine built to hold the lay closed at the cut — up to Φ20 mm that is the WM-9323 fully automatic steel wire rope cutting machine. Synthetic rope, cord and webbing that must leave the machine with sealed ends cannot be finished by a cold shear; use the WM-561 hot rope cutting machine, which seals as it cuts up to Φ20 mm. Hollow metal tube and conduit from Φ1 to Φ30 mm — copper, aluminium, stainless and armoured pipe — belongs on the WM-183 metal tube cutting machine at 20–100 pieces per minute, and brass tube or aluminium rod up to Ø48 mm held to ±0.03 mm belongs on the WM-562CNC brass tube and rod cutting machine. Insulated wire and cable that also has to be stripped belongs with the wire cutting and stripping machines.

Two things on this page are worth reading off the photographs rather than the table. The first is the straightening head on the infeed arm: nine grooved rollers in two staggered rows, adjustable from the top, which is what separates a wire cut-to-length machine from a plain cutter. The second is the cutting station — a flat blade coming down onto a small replaceable die block with a V notch machined across it, driven by an air cylinder on a linear slide. The data sheet does not describe either of them, so we photographed them close up instead of writing around the gap.