Amp LLC

Joe Pierce Morgan

Richard V Spong

Howard C Phillips

Phillip E Loomis

A machine for inserting displation type terminals in strip form into cavities in a coil bobbin or the like comprises first and second slide assemblies in parallel side-by-side relationship. The strip of terminals is fed towards the insertion zone of the apparatus by a feeding means which is actuated during movement of the first slide member along its working stroke. A shearing means for shearing terminals from the strip is also actuated by the first slide member and this shearing means serves to place the sheared terminals in front of insertion members carried by the second slide member. Finally, during the working stroke of the first slide member, the insertion punches move relative to the second slide towards the insertion zone to advance the sheared terminals in a guide tube on the second slide member. During the working stroke of the second slide member, the terminal guide tube carried on the second slide is moved up to the workpiece and thereafter, the guide tube remains stationary as the insertion punches push the terminals into the cavities in the workpiece. The terminals move past wires extending from the coil in the workpiece and drag the wires into the cavities. End portions of the wires are sheared by movable shearing blades on the second slide.

Apparatus for inserting displation type terminals into cavities

A method and apparatus for closing and bonding initially open clam-shell housings about articles such as electrical terminals or the like. The housings are initially in strip form, a plurality of the initially open clam-shell housings being interconnected to each other by hinge members which extend outwardly from either the ends or the sides of opposed housing parts. A leading housing of the strip is initially disposed at an assembly station and an article is conveyed laterally into the housing. Subsequently the housing is partially closed by engaging one of the housing parts of a clam-shell housing adjacent the leading housing and moving it towards its opposed housing part to cause corresponding movement of the housing parts of the leading clam-shell housing. A bonding tool now engages and moves a housing part of the partially closed leading housing into a closed position with respect to the other housing part, and it is then bonded to said other housing part to secure the housing parts to each other about an article. The interconnecting hinge members are sheared from the closed clam-shell housing and the assembly is then discharged from the assembly station.

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Camp Hill, PA, United States of America

Joe Pierce Morgan