Stator winding apparatus including winding form assemblies

摘要

A stator winding machine is provided with a male winding form having a pair of connecting rods and a female winding form having sockets that slidably receive the connecting rods. The winding forms are handled by manipulation of winding form carriages and are clamped to one another and to the stator by a clamp mechanism integrated into the female winding form that grips the male connecting rods. Each clamp mechanism comprises a movable clamp member biased into engagement with the male connecting rods and a movable release member confined within the female winding form. The release member is partly in the path of a conventional carriage-mounted winding form-support pin at the time it enters the female winding form so that the release member is moved by such support pin in a direction to cause it to move the movable clamp member away from the male connecting rods and thereby relieve clamping pressure. In one embodiment, the release member is a pivotal lever confined within the female winding form. In a second embodiment, the release member is a sliding link confined within the female winding form.