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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 1986
Filed:
Feb. 26, 1985
Wolfgang E Feiber, Harrisburg, PA (US);
Ronald J Capp, Enola, PA (US);
Dwight A Griffin, Harrisburg, PA (US);
AMP Incorporated, Harrisburg, PA (US);
Abstract
Apparatus for providing a continuous supply of workpieces to a pickup station comprises a frame having a magazine in the top thereof, the workpieces being packaged in open-ended trays stacked in the magazine. A pickup plate assembly pivots downward from a position paralleling the bottom of the magazine, where it picks up a tray, to an inclined delivery position aligned with the inclined surface of a delivery station. Holding means are released so the connectors slide from the open end of the tray until it is empty. Thereafter the pickup plate pivots further downward and the empty tray is ejected.