APPARATUS FOR INSERTING LEADS OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS INTO CORRESPONDING HOLES ACCORDING TO DIFFERENT SPACINGS OF SAID HOLES

摘要

This invention concerns a method and an apparatus for mounting components on circuit boards by means of tool sections movable toward and away from opposite sides of a mid-plane, said components comprising a body and leads extending in opposite directions, said circuit boards having holes with different center-to-center spacings for mounting of different components, and said tooling sections comprising lead formers and means for driving a formed lead into a corresponding hold. …According to the invention, each of said driving means are spaced by spacing means from an adjacent outside former (149) and inwardly toward said mid-plane when mounting components via holes having spacings greater than the smallest hole spacing, so as to avoid a lead misinsertion by forcing a formed lead from driving engagement with a blade (145) of said driving means during an operation of clinching inserted leads to an underside of said circuit board.