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A fiber guide for spooling glass fiber from an automatic coil winding machine onto a spool. The guide has a pay guide assembly with a receiving aperture. Two similar sections are held together with a slight gap between them. Left and right parallel strands of music wire are tightly stretched through

A fiber guide for spooling glass fiber from an automatic coil winding machine onto a spool. The guide has a pay guide assembly with a receiving aperture. Two similar sections are held together with a slight gap between them. Left and right parallel strands of music wire are tightly stretched through the gap across the receiving aperture of the arc and are anchored at each end. A spool receives the left and right parallel strands or guides and is maintained very close to the last layer or surface of fiber laid down. A guide pulley is carried by the guide for guiding glass fiber between the left and right parallel strands and onto the spool. The parallel strands are tensioned by anchoring each wire in a respective standoff. In one embodiment, each end of a music wire wraps around a standoff. The wires extend through the cross drilled holes permitting adjustment by turning the standoff. In an alternative embodiment, a tensioner is formed by a pivotal plate, relative to the guide. The pivotal plate tightens the left and right parallel strands by spring force generated by a spring connected between the pivot plate and the guide. In another embodiment, the left and right parallel strands are spaced apart by washers having a predetermined thickness.

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[ What is claimed is:] [12.] A fiber guide and automatic coil winding machine combination for spooling glass fiber onto a spool comprising:a fiber guide comprising;a rigid body having an arcuate opening and comprising two similar sections held together with a gap between the sections;two parallel st

[ What is claimed is:] [12.] A fiber guide and automatic coil winding machine combination for spooling glass fiber onto a spool comprising:a fiber guide comprising;a rigid body having an arcuate opening and comprising two similar sections held together with a gap between the sections;two parallel strands of wire tightly stretched across the arcuate opening of the arc and anchored;a spool for receiving the glass fiber mounted so it extends into the arc between the wire strands;a guide pulley carried by the body for guiding the glass fiber from the winding machine onto said spool via the space between said wire strands; and,an automatic coil winding machine,a pivotally mounted connection between the automatic coil winding machine and said body.