The present invention relates to a wire bunching machine, and more particularly to the wire stranding machine capable of stranding wires evenly.

According to the prior art, the capstan is located inside the rotary structure and just in front of the winding drum, and the wire material is being stranded as well as given a tension at the time of passing through the flyer bow. But because of the long distance between the wire supply position and the capstan, there may cause an irregular pitch in stranding the wires thereby resulting in an unevenly stranded product even if the wires were pulled with a given tension.

A  Wire stranding machine comprising a plurality of stands, each carrying a pair of bobbins disposed on opposite sides of the stand, wire on a bobbin being fed through a hollow, rotatable shaft on the stand along with a core, such as an electric cable core, and to a stranding unit. The number of stands is equal to the number of wires to be stranded, and each stand carries means for paying-off wire from either bobbin and means for loading either bobbin with wire, the wire guiding means of the latter being movable from adjacent one bobbin to adjacent the other bobbin, whereby one bobbin may supply the wire for stranding while the other bobbin is being loaded with wire. Drive means, separate from means which rotates the hollow shaft, rotates the bobbin being loaded and can drive either bobbin.