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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 1986
Filed:
Nov. 09, 1984
Ruslon J Smith, Moscow, PA (US);
Equipment Technology Incorporated, Peckville, PA (US);
Abstract
Apparatus and method for forming and inserting lead wires into openings provided in a movable carrier strip in the manufacture of products such as disc capacitors is disclosed. The carrier strip is provided with sets of openings disposed in transversely-spaced pairs aligned relationship with one another. The apparatus forms lead wire stock into a U-shaped subassembly with straight sections of lead wire stock spaced apart by an amount equal to the desired spacing between the lead wires. Mechanism is provided for holding the carrier strip in a bent position in which the pairs of openings of the sets are in straight-line paths through which the free ends of the straight sections of lead wire stock are advanced so that the lead wire assemblies are mounted on the strip. The carrier strip is advanced to the station at which the leads are mounted on it on a guide mandrel of curved cross section. Movably-mounted grooved guide means are moved into a guide position so that the leads pass through the openings at the lead wire mounting station and are subsequently moved to a retracted position to allow for lengthwise indexing of the carrier strip.