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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 1987
Filed:
Oct. 23, 1985
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Kadoma, JP;
Abstract
In a sheet holding apparatus having a pair of parallelly disposed rails (17, 18) for sliding a sheet, such as a printed board, and plural guide holders (38, 42) having plural positioning guide pin (40, 44) to be inserted in holes of the printed wiring board, distance between the pair of rails (17, 18) is changed by a screw shaft (20) which is rotated by a driving motor (32) responding to change of size of the sheet, and a spline shaft (36) is disposed along the rails (17, 18), and the guide holders (32, 42) are provided to be slidable on the spline shaft (36), which puts up and down the guide holders (32, 42), hence positioning guide pins (40, 44) above and below a level of carrying plane of the sheet by rotation thereof.