ELECTRIC TERMINAL APPLICATOR WITH IMPROVED TERMINAL TAPE ADVANCING MEANS

摘要

PURPOSE: To provide a new and improved electric terminal applicator with an improved terminal tape feed system. CONSTITUTION: Terminals 24 are fixed to a tape 26 in a laterally aligned manner. An applicator ram 14 is adapted to move along a first path A for the working stroke toward a press-fitting anvil 22 or the return stroke away from it. The ram has press-fitting dies 18 and 20, which cooperate with the anvil in press-fitting the terminals partly to an electric wire in the working stroke of the ram. A track 32 is adapted to move along the second path B crossing the first path of the ram to guide the tape. A tape feed linkage 44 has at least one tooth 76, by which a shuttle member adapted to linearly reciprocate along the second path of the tape for the advance stroke toward the anvil or the return stroke away from it advances into index holes 30 formed through the tape 26 in the advance stroke to accordingly feed the tape incrementally.