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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 1985
Filed:
Jun. 10, 1983
Louis E Griffith, Hampstead, NH (US);
Power Access Corporation, Manchester, NH (US);
Abstract
In an automatic wire cutting machine a stepper motor driven knurled roller is positioned between two wire guide channels to drive a wire toward a cutting station. The length of wire to be cut is set in a length counter. Drive cycles, during which the wire is driven a predetermined distance, are counted in the length counter. Then, the stepping motor is disabled and cutting blade is energized. This system prevents operation of the cutting blade solenoid at less than an acceptable duty cycle with short lengths of wire. Due to the particular displacement of the wire with each step of the stepping motor, the system is readily converted from English to metric units.