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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 1983
Filed:
Apr. 30, 1981
Frederick G Tomko, Vestal, NY (US);
Phillip A Ragard, Binghamton, NY (US);
Jack Schum, Harpursville, NY (US);
Universal Instruments Corporation, Binghamton, NY (US);
Abstract
An apparatus is disclosed for intermittently feeding wire forward along a generally longitudinal axis, cutting and forming a front end of the wire at a first station into a jumper bridge for an electronic hybrid substrate and presenting the jumper bridge at a second station for removal from the apparatus. The apparatus has a housing comprising a wire guide for supporting and guiding said wire along the longitudinal axis; a first gripper for gripping and feeding the wire to the first station during a portion of a forward stroke; a second gripper for preventing rearward movement of the wire; means for delivering the jumper bridge from the first station to the second station and presenting it for removal at the second station; a cutter and former for cutting a specified length from the front end of wire and forming it into the jumper bridge; a driver for controlling the feeding of the wire to the first station, the cutting and forming of the wire into a jumper bridge, and the delivering of the jumper bridge from the first station to the second station; and an actuator for actuating the driver during the forward and reverse strokes, upon command.