Usm Corporation

Armand L Tardiff

David R Delorey

Glover F Broughton

Bangt R Pearson

Waldo B Hanson

Ralph A Morrison

For uniformly positioning and closely spacing in a row electrical lead-bearing components of different types, including those having disc-shaped bodies to be disposed in overlapping relation, lead controlling means and component body positioning means coact with a conveyor conducting the components to be secured as by tape in selected sequence.

Machines for sequencing diverse components with component separating and

Electrical components having generally parallel leads extending in one direction from one side of their bodies, respectively, are successively transferred to a conveyor means movable through sequential processing stations to prepare the leads for circuit board connection or sequencing preparatory to such connection. Spaced lead grippers on the conveyor means control lead portions adjacent to the bodies of the components. The stations sucessively act to determine the standoff length of the leads from the bodies of the components, reform remaining portions of the leads in coaxial relation while maintaining the standoff length, check for omission of a reformed component from proper position in the series and, upon release from the grippers, tape the coaxial portions of the leads of adjacent components in parallel, side-by-side relation. Preferably, the means for checking reformed component presence also controls turning of a reel for storing the repackaged components.

Machines for reforming and repackaging components

Machines for sequencing diverse components

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Salem, MA, United States of America

Armand L Tardiff