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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 1979
Filed:
Sep. 14, 1978
Irwin Zahn, New York, NY (US);
Heinrich F Meyer, Ormond Beach, FL (US);
General Staple Company, Inc., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and supply strip is disclosed for inserting terminal pins into an apertured workpiece. The apparatus includes reciprocating feeding means for sequentially advancing a supply strip of integrally connected preformed terminal pins toward the workpiece; shearing means for severing the leading one of said pins from the remainder of the supply strip; and driving means for inserting the severed lead one of said pins into the workpiece. The feeding means comprises grasping means operable only when the feeding means is moving in a first direction toward the workpiece to grasp the supply strip at the juncture of adjacent integrally connected preformed terminal pins.