PERFEZIONAMENTO NEGLI APPARECCHI PER LA FABBRICAZIONE DI FILI CONDUTTORI ELETTRICI MUNITI DI TERMINALI

摘要

Apparatus for high-speed production of sets of accurately and identically sized insulated wire leads having wire terminals at the lead ends comprises: a feed mechanism including counter-reciprocating wire feed clamps for simultaneously drawing a plurality of separate strands of insulated wire from a plurality of wire reels; a mechanism for simultaneously straightening and arranging the strands drawn therethrough in parallel spaced apart relationship in a common generally horizontal plane; a severing mechanism for simultaneously severing sets of wire segments of predetermined length from the strands; conveyor clamps for releasably gripping and conveying sets of wire segments; and conveyor means for advancing the conveyor clamps and sets of wire segments therein through processing mechanisms and to a collecting station. The apparatus further includes conveyor clamp actuator mechanisms for causing the conveyor clamps to initially receive sets of wire segments from the feed clamps for conveyance and to subsequently release the finished leads for deposit at the collecting station.