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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 1987
Filed:
Aug. 29, 1984
Erle M Hutchins, Bel Air, MD (US);
AT&T Technologies, Inc., Berkeley Heights, NJ (US);
Abstract
A plurality of lengths (52--52) of wires (54--54) are advanced along parallel paths and clamped after which each length is formed into a retroflexed configuration at a wire-forming station (50). The partially formed lengths of wire are stored in a nest of a transport device (115) and severed from supplies (56--56) of the wires. Then the transport device is moved to deliver the partially formed wires from the wire-forming station to an assembly station (60). Forces are applied to the partially formed wires to hold an upper portion of each compressed toward a lower portion to allow end portions of each to be moved into guide channels of a plastic housing (32) having a plug end (34) and a jack end (36) which includes stacked cavities (38, 39). Portions of tooling (241,242) inserted into the jack end provide guide paths for the end portions of the wires during their movement into the housing and to the jack end. Portions (251,258) of the tooling are activated to cause each free end portion of each wire length to be retroflexed and disposed in one of the cavities.