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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 08, 1983
Filed:
Mar. 19, 1981
John H Winkelman, Hartland, WI (US);
Artos Engineering Company, New Berlin, WI (US);
Abstract
The invention provides wire conveying clamp assemblies for high speed conveying of accurately sized wire leads and for precisely presenting the leads for mass termination, as for example to the terminals on a terminal block. The clamp assemblies are secured to an endless chain that rotates in a flat orbital path, and each assembly includes a side plate support fixedly attached to the chain, and a clamp housing slideably attached to that side plate support. The clamp housing is slideably movable along the side plate support in a direction parallel to the path of movement of the chain. A clamp arm is slideably mounted on the housing, and guide pin means are slideably engaged in the arm. A comb for engaging wire leads is attached to one end of the guide pin means, and pusher means move the comb and the guide pin means transversely relative to the chain path to cause separation of the free ends of the wire leads.