摘要 |
An electrical connector (82) having slotted plate contacts (84) arranged in two rows there along is supported beween heel blocks (52 and 72) on an anvil (40), blocks (134) each carrying a wire insertion tooling assembly and being mounted on an arm (102) of a yoke, are transported along the anvil (40) by a stepping motor (not shown) connected to the yoke. Each tooling assembly is actuable to force a wire into the slot of a contact (84) when the tooling assembly is opposite to that contact. …<??>In order to align each tooling assembly with its associated contacts (84) despite warpage of the housing (83) of the connector (82), each tooling assembly is provided with an aligning plate (122) which rides on a longitudinal flange (88) of the connector housing (83), the tooling assembly being capable of limited movement at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the anvil (40). |